hiptomac Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Hi I hope you all can help me out. I am new to building Hackintoshes and I have a Dell Optiplex 745 (that I see other people have successfully built). I can boot from an [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] cd. My Snow Leopard image is loaded on an 8 GB thumb drive. I can select from 3 devices [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], Snow Leopard or a Windows formatted disk that shows up as NTFS (40 GB SATA drive). I then boot off the Snow leopard device and come to the Installer screen but there is no disk to select for the installation. When I run Disk Utility there are no drives detected (except the thumb drive). What am I missing? The computer I used to create the Snow Leopard image is an iMac G5 running OS X 10.5.8. I tried copying the IOATAFamily.kext and IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext to the thumb drive in the /S/L/E folder but with no success. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiptomac Posted February 26, 2012 Author Share Posted February 26, 2012 Please I really want to get this working. I know there has to be some people out there who have some ideas as to what to try. If you need me to provide more information then please ask. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiptomac Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 I have resolved this issue thanks to the information posted by client00 in http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showforum=226 which states you need to use the 2.5.1 version of the IOATAFamily.KEXT in order to get SATA support. The default version that comes on the 10.6 image is 2.5.0. Thank you client00 for your posts on the Dell Optiplex 745. I will next attempt to install 10.7 on this machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiptomac Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 I have successfully install 10.3 on my Dell Optiplex 745 by following the below guide: http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/10/######-install-mac-os-x-lion-using.html Thank you all for your fine work. Keep it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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