Drive not showing up in installer { Intel Core 2 Duo w/R7 240 }

[carsonr]

I have tried both CtlnaAHCIPort.kext, AHCIPortInjector.kext and ATAPortInjector.kext and I still can't get my Drive to show up.

In the BIOS the drive is seen as an "ATA Drive," please let me know if there are any suggestions for a solution.

I am installing Mac OS Monterey.

 

My Hackintosh specifications are:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200

GPU: AMD R7 240 1GB

MOBO: Lenovo g31t-lm2

RAM: 4GB DDR2

[carsonr]

20 minutes ago, Hervé said:

No disk is detected in BIOS, I can only guess that your disk is either dead or not connected properly. Fat chance to detect it in macOS in such conditions...

Once your BIOS detects your/a disk, you could be struggling to install Monterey: your motherboard is an ancient G31 piece of hardware with an old & fairly low-spec Wolfdale-3M C2D CPU and a very old ICH7 IO controller; desktop ICH7 has no support for AHCI so you could find yourself unable to install recent macOS versions for lack of support reasons. Also note that, on a legacy SATA-II HDD, Monterey would be very slow. I hope you have a SATA SSD.

http://www.findlaptopdriver.com/motherboard-g31t-lm2-specs/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I/O_Controller_Hub#ICH7

Well the drive certain shows up because it is present in windows, so without a doubt it loads into the BIOS.

Also, the board I am using is a desktop, this is not a laptop I am working with, though I don't think you made a mistake there.

 

I do have an SSD but this will not be implemented in this build. I have the old piece of hardware booting to the installer without a problem at all. I just can't seem to get the drive to show up in the disk utility. 

A user on Reddit seemed to suggest using AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext, but I couldn't really find a kext for this and instead I found this: 

 

 

I am curious to see your thoughts on this and I am really curious to see if we can get this detected as that would be a huge fix.

 

 

 

[carsonr]

2 hours ago, Hervé said:

I don't believe I made any reference to a laptop, quite the contrary. And please forgive me for considering 4 x IDE disk entries reporting "NOT DETECTED" in BIOS setup as undetected HDDs. I must have been misled into misunderstanding the obvious.

 

Indeed, you would need such an old patched kext to support disk in IDE mode but this is such old stuff that there's absolutely no guarantee it would load in Monterey. You'll find copies of this kext without any difficulty through Google. Just search for it. From memory, it may even be included in dosdude1's Catalina patcher. Look it up with apps such as Pacifist.

 

Thank you for this,

 

I was wondering if the installation guide here is still applicable in this guide or if I just drag and drop the Kext I found from dosdude1's Catalina patcher.

I tried dragging and dropping the kext I found in dosdude1's Catalina patcher and it did not seem to work but I am going to see if that guide still applies. I know that just loading the kext that was available for download there it did not work.

 

 

[Slice]

As far as I remember I had successfully installed Lin 10.7.5 on such computer. SATA mode must be Enchanced.

A little more recent computer with ICH8 is in my signature. There is ElCapitan. The SATA is in AHCI mode.

[Guest 5T33Z0]

@carsonr Which Boot Manager are you using: OpenCore or Clover?

[Slice]

I doubt R7 240 will work in Monterey

ATI Oland family cards 

[jsl2000]

13 hours ago, Hervé said:

I don't think the bootloader matters much in this case. Monterey on such an ancient platform is going to be a real challenge: from the ICH7 IO controller limited to IDE mode to the old USB controller that will most probably require the HID fix, not forgetting the SSE4.2-related post-install patch(es) or the R7 240 graphics card of course (don't AMD drivers require SSE4.2 in Mojave and later?).

One of my LGA 775 hackintoshs (MB: GA-965P-DS4| CPU: Core 2 DUO E8400| GPU: GeForce GT 710| RAM: DDR2 8GB) can install both Big Sur and Monterey, but IDE (PATA) function only preserved at Big Sur. One issue bothered me a lot: After wakeup from S3 sleep only PS2 keyboard and Mouse still functioning. Loss of USB function need to be fixed !

Edited May 3, 2022 by jsl2000

[Slice]

9 hours ago, Hervé said:

It remains to be seen, indeed.

https://dortania.github.io/GPU-Buyers-Guide/modern-gpus/amd-gpu.html#r7-r9

There are some inaccuracies in this guide.

[carsonr]

20 hours ago, jsl2000 said:

One of my LGA 775 hackintoshs (MB: GA-965P-DS4| CPU: Core 2 DUO E8400| GPU: GeForce GT 710| RAM: DDR2 8GB) can install both Big Sur and Monterey, but IDE (PATA) function only preserved at Big Sur. One issue bothered me a lot: After wakeup from S3 sleep only PS2 keyboard and Mouse still functioning. Loss of USB function need to be fixed !

@jsl2000 How did you get this to work?

On 5/2/2022 at 12:15 AM, 5T33Z0 said:

@carsonr Which Boot Manager are you using: OpenCore or Clover?

I am using OpenCore

Edited May 3, 2022 by carsonr

[carsonr]

On 5/2/2022 at 5:31 AM, Slice said:

I doubt R7 240 will work in Monterey

ATI Oland family cards 

I have it working in the installer if that means anything.

[Slice]

Installer works in VESA mode so it means nothing.

[carsonr]

bump - can we find a method to load in IDE drives? 
@jsl2000 looks like he may have found a method

 

[Slice]

You may find a sources of the driver

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/AppleIntelPIIXATA/tree/AppleIntelPIIXATA-30

The next question is who will compile this driver to Monterey?

[oSxFr33k]

Wouldn’t sandy,ivy and haswell be a challenge as it is now but to even think how LGA775 could install Monterey maybe with OCLP?

 

I still have 5 LGA775 systems myself too much clutter would be interesting to try I guess.  

[carsonr]

On 5/6/2022 at 8:35 AM, Slice said:

You may find a sources of the driver

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/AppleIntelPIIXATA/tree/AppleIntelPIIXATA-30

The next question is who will compile this driver to Monterey?

It looks like someone Compiled the driver 10 months ago, unless I have mistaken that as the upload. Does the card work?

[carsonr]

On 5/5/2022 at 10:49 PM, Hervé said:

🤨 Quite the contrary for Monterey as per his statement + posted screenshots... His mobo has ICH8R controller with supports AHCI and provides multiple SATA-III + 1 x IDE/ATA connectors for HDDs. It's obvious he's using a SATA disk in AHCI mode for Monterey.

 

In your own case, you'd probably have to invest in one of those cheap PCIe SATA-III controllers but it's hardly worth it in 2022 for such an obsolete computer.

https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/8701-marvell-88se91xx-88se92xx-based-pcie-sata-iii-controllers

https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/8732-syba-sd-pex50055-pcie-sata-iii-usb30-controller

 

There were many such threads on various Hackintosh forums in the days when this kind of hardware was desirable; but it's old stuff now, the demise of ATA/IDE being already quite ancient (~2007/2008).

Can I still use one of these cards to install a Drive and have it show up in the macOS installer?

[Slice]

Are you ready to spend some money for this card if the result will be "obsolete macOS"?

[carsonr]

19 hours ago, Slice said:

Are you ready to spend some money for this card if the result will be "obsolete macOS"?

Pretty much it's only 12 dollars.

[tasco11]

On 5/3/2022 at 7:24 AM, jsl2000 said:

One of my LGA 775 hackintoshs (MB: GA-965P-DS4| CPU: Core 2 DUO E8400| GPU: GeForce GT 710| RAM: DDR2 8GB) can install both Big Sur and Monterey, but IDE (PATA) function only preserved at Big Sur. One issue bothered me a lot: After wakeup from S3 sleep only PS2 keyboard and Mouse still functioning. Loss of USB function need to be fixed !

This board doens't have SATA AHCI option? 
How did you get it working without that?
I am trying install macOS without SATA AHCI option, but failing to get SATA SSD detected in the OpenCore picker.
DO you use any patch or kext or driver to bypass SATA check?

[jsl2000]

2 hours ago, tasco11 said:

This board doens't have SATA AHCI option? 
How did you get it working without that?
I am trying install macOS without SATA AHCI option, but failing to get SATA SSD detected in the OpenCore picker.
DO you use any patch or kext or driver to bypass SATA check?

No, probably you did not find it in its BIOS.

It can be enabled AHCI mode of SATA in its BIOS.