astrok Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Help! After having success with iatkos S3 on a G31 motherboard a few years ago I took the plunge and bought a GA-Z77-D3SH + i7 3770k and have been trying to get Mountain Lion on it. Created the boot usb on my old G31 (10.6.3) and a new Mac that is running 10.7. I've using Disk Utility (partitioned, erased, restored, both GUID and MBR), Lion Diskmaker 2 and also created a Lion recovery stick. All boot fine on the work Mac but I cannot get anything to boot on the GA-Z77- D3SH. I'm I missing something simple here? TIA Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/283074-ga-z77-d3sh-wont-boot-any-usb-stick-ml-or-l/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Yeah, the hackintosh part. Forget about recovery stick and Lion Disk Maker. Do the restore in Disk Utility, then add the packages and mach_kernel, and then add hackintosh kexts like fakesmc, nullcpupowermanagement, install chameleon to it, make extra folder with valid smbios and configured org.chameleon.Boot.plist, and depending on GPU, may need to remove a few things too. It shouldn't work on a real mac, nor would you want it to. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/283074-ga-z77-d3sh-wont-boot-any-usb-stick-ml-or-l/#findComment-1855298 Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrok Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 Hi, Thanks for the info, I'll have to look most of that up to understand it. I've used Disk Utility, restored the image to the 8GB usb stick using both MBR and GUID, no boot. Installed Chameleon and get the screen to boot from the stick or hard drive, then after selecting the stick it reboots. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/283074-ga-z77-d3sh-wont-boot-any-usb-stick-ml-or-l/#findComment-1855337 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iFIRE Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 -x -f -v GraphicsEnabler=No npci=0x3000 cpus=1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/283074-ga-z77-d3sh-wont-boot-any-usb-stick-ml-or-l/#findComment-1855338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrok Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 Thank you. Tried that and flashed black then white then rebooted. I used an older Chameleon (2) as I'm at home on my 10.6.3 iatkos build today, no access to the 'grown up' mac 10.7 at work. Is there a best version of Chameleon to try? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/283074-ga-z77-d3sh-wont-boot-any-usb-stick-ml-or-l/#findComment-1855351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iFIRE Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Chameleon 2.1svn Official PKG Installer & Binaries Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/283074-ga-z77-d3sh-wont-boot-any-usb-stick-ml-or-l/#findComment-1855357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrok Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 Opens ok then exits unexpectedly when going to the readme screen. Guessing it's not for iatkos 10.6.3 so will have try on the work mac next time.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/283074-ga-z77-d3sh-wont-boot-any-usb-stick-ml-or-l/#findComment-1855364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iFIRE Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 you have put Extra folder with FakeSMC.kext in Extra/Extensions , and SMBIOS + org.chameleon.bootplist + mach_kernel for root of your USBInstaller!!!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/283074-ga-z77-d3sh-wont-boot-any-usb-stick-ml-or-l/#findComment-1855366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrok Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 Still the same. I'm having to use Chameleon RC5 as the latest does not work in my hackintosh. I'll try this on the 10.7 work machine later this week. I've read quite a few posts/guides about this motherboard but the steps used never outline any of the above (just restore with Disk Utility, reboot and install) so I'm guessing this mb isn't as good as the posts say Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/283074-ga-z77-d3sh-wont-boot-any-usb-stick-ml-or-l/#findComment-1855384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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