ajw901 Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Hi, i' m new to the hackintosh. I have a inspiron 545 which i want to convert to a hackintosh. My specs are: MEMORY : 8192MB (4X2048) 800MHZ DDR2 DUAL PROCESSOR : INTEL CORE 2 QUAD-CORE Q8300 HARD DRIVE : 1TB SERIAL ATA (7200RPM) GRAPHICS : 1024 MB NVIDIA GEFORCE GT220 WIRELESS : Dell NETWORK 1505 (802.11 N) PCIE What would be the distro for a hackintosh ? Thanks, Ajw901 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279922-dell-inspiron-545/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
giofrida Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 I recommend Lion Retail. Why? Because: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 - Natively supported Nvidia GeForce GT220 - GraphicsEnabler=Yes in org.Chameleon.boot.plist / NVEnabler64.kext Dell 1505 - Natively supported (native AirPort!) Great PC!, -giofrida Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279922-dell-inspiron-545/#findComment-1827992 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajw901 Posted June 21, 2012 Author Share Posted June 21, 2012 Thanks for the info! I've got lion on a bootbale usb which i created from MyHack - i can boot into the lion installer by doing this command " -v -x npci=0x3000 pci=off GraphicsEnabler=No" Only problem is.... it can't find my SATA hard drive. i've looked online and it says switch to AHCI mode however i can only switch to IDE or RAID. Is there a way of getting past this ? Thanks Ajw901 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279922-dell-inspiron-545/#findComment-1828277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giofrida Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Try this: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=193277 Bye, -giofrida Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279922-dell-inspiron-545/#findComment-1828284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajw901 Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 Hi, Me once again! A little further progress now however still struggling!!!!! I've got the installer to see the HDD and it's installed on the drive, however booting on to the drive is the hard part. I Boot into Darwin off the USB i then enter " -v -x npci=0x3000 pci=off GraphicsEnabler=No" then it starts to boots and then shows me this - https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/?ui=2&ik=f7b9c62ce0&view=att&th=1381a2759911d9e7&attid=0.1&disp=inline&safe=1&zw&saduie=AG9B_P_VX77Q_ZSr_ZcBtPU5HDOg&sadet=1340468684057&sads=9bc7k9kcIbrPePZVeWiVM1QnYtQ&sadssc=1 "Boot-UUID-Media" then will go into a "Waiting for Root Device" loop. Any Ideas ? Ajw901 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279922-dell-inspiron-545/#findComment-1828823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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