qblake Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 I became frustrated with Hackintoshing awhile ago, but recently switched from AMD to Intel and decided to give it another go. I got Mavericks installed very quickly and smoothly, but my problem is I can't load into the bootloader, it just black screens for a second then loads into my motherboard's UEFI. I have a hunch that my motherboard doesn't like that the drive is GUID instead of MBR, and won't load into it. My specs are i7 4770k Asus Z87-Plus Radeon HD 7870 Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/294240-computer-wont-load-into-109-bootloader/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTuga Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 The Z87 ASUS boards dont run by default the HD, you still have to use the Pen Drive to boot. How you did your instalation? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/294240-computer-wont-load-into-109-bootloader/#findComment-1972154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
styrian Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 Which bootloader are you using? Have fun. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/294240-computer-wont-load-into-109-bootloader/#findComment-1972155 Share on other sites More sharing options...
qblake Posted November 28, 2013 Author Share Posted November 28, 2013 I assume "How you did your installation?" was a mistype, lol. And I've so far tried Chimera, Chameleon, and Clover, and none work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/294240-computer-wont-load-into-109-bootloader/#findComment-1972160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
styrian Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Please read this: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293503-haswell-early-reboot-mavericks-locked-msrs-and-hp-envy-15-j063cl-i7-4700mq/ Perhaps it matches your problem. By the way Chimera is not a good option for Asus. Better give Chameleon or Enoch a try and later on perhaps Clover. It is also not supported here. Have fun. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/294240-computer-wont-load-into-109-bootloader/#findComment-1972195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
qblake Posted November 29, 2013 Author Share Posted November 29, 2013 Got it all worked out. I was right, the motherboard didn't like booting from a GUID drive. I just made a 2GB partition on my MBR drive and threw Chameleon on it. Works perfectly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/294240-computer-wont-load-into-109-bootloader/#findComment-1972213 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlf Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 I was right, the motherboard didn't like booting from a GUID drive. I just made a 2GB partition on my MBR drive and threw Chameleon on it. Works perfectly. I thought that was a bit peculiar until I read this posting: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289977-ml-on-a-asus-z87-haswell-build/?p=1925881 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/294240-computer-wont-load-into-109-bootloader/#findComment-1972217 Share on other sites More sharing options...
styrian Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Fine, that it is working now. Congrats to your Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/294240-computer-wont-load-into-109-bootloader/#findComment-1972375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
qblake Posted November 29, 2013 Author Share Posted November 29, 2013 One more question, I'm having what is by far the strangest problem I've ever seen. When I boot into OSX, in the middle of booting it ejects my CD drive, and if I push it back in it just ejects it again. Then after 5 minutes or so of being in the OS, it freezes completely, but the CD drive will go in without ejecting. I went into Disk Utility and it even recognizes my drive, model number and everything. I've been dealing with it by just leaving the drive unplugged, but I'd like to get it fixed. Any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/294240-computer-wont-load-into-109-bootloader/#findComment-1972411 Share on other sites More sharing options...
styrian Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Try to install the sata module of Chameleon. Have fun. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/294240-computer-wont-load-into-109-bootloader/#findComment-1972452 Share on other sites More sharing options...
qblake Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 Where would I find that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/294240-computer-wont-load-into-109-bootloader/#findComment-1972584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
styrian Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 In the installer of Chameleon or Enoch here from Downloads. Just run the installer, look under modules, and set the option box for the sata module active and run the installer. Have fun. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/294240-computer-wont-load-into-109-bootloader/#findComment-1972744 Share on other sites More sharing options...
qblake Posted December 2, 2013 Author Share Posted December 2, 2013 Figured it out, when I was building the computer I guess I wasn't paying attention and plugged the CD drive into my 3rd party SATA controller instead of my chipset controller. Switched it to my chipset controller and all problems solved. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/294240-computer-wont-load-into-109-bootloader/#findComment-1972999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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