Huttah Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Basic intro, I previously owned a Hackintosh running 10.5.2 iATKOS, no problems whatsoever, I think I got lucky for a first try. Used it for a couple years until the hard drive gave out. I've become interested in using Hackintosh on my newly built PC, wanting Lion to be specific. So far I've tried both Leopard and Snow Leopard, knowing I have to have at least S/L in order to upgrade to Lion. But Snow Leopard distros AND Leopard distros give me the same problem -- I can't even get to the installation! So I thought I'd install Leopard (if I have to), go S/L, then Lion if I feel the need. But I seem to be having the same problem regardess of the OS version; grey Apple screen, not even a loading wheel, crash, and reboot. Could anyone possibly help me here? I've searched these forums and Google over and cannot seem to pinpoint the problem. Specs are: Intel Core i7 870 2.93GHz MSI P55-CD53 Mainboard SONY DVD RW DRU-V200S (I vaguely remember the DVD Drive making a difference a couple years back, not so sure now) VisionTek AMD Radeon HD 6770 Graphics 4GB RAM I also recently just tried iATKOS L2, getting the same problem. In any case, if I run -v -x, I get a "JMicronATA has no explicit kernel dependency" panic, followed by a "Still waiting for root device" panic. To my knowledge, this has to do with IDE Hard Drives/DVD Readers, but all five of my hard drives are SATA, along with the aforementioned DVD Drive. So I'm very confused on this. My initial thought was that it's failing on my media choice (DVD+RW), but I'm not sure. If anybody could help me out, that would be absolutely fantastic. Thank you in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/275713-cannot-install-grey-apple-loading-screen-for-split-second-then-disappears/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 plug DVD drive first SATA, HDD second, disable jmicron in bios, set IDE to AHCI, try again. btw, installation does not find your drive, thats a hold, not a panic. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/275713-cannot-install-grey-apple-loading-screen-for-split-second-then-disappears/#findComment-1795099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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