iamtheoneneo Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 OK firstly id like to thank many peps on this forum for inadvertingly helping me out. Iv finally got an install of mac osx 10.4.6 up and running, its taken a good day to do - but its up at last. Id thought id make this guide of all the probs i experienced and how i got round them: First up my sys specs: core duo e4300 @ 2.79ghz nvidia 8800gts OC 2gb corsiar C3 ram (2x 1gb) gigabyte ds3 mobo xfi soundcard 1 terabyte drive (2 x 500gb seagate drives - sata) (NEW JUST FOR MAC OSX) 1 80gb seagate drive 1 samsung IDE dvdrw-drive PROBLEM 1= crossed out circle during installation boot (cant go any further) SOLUTION: needed a usb drive to get around this. instead of buying one i found an old external drive caddy lieing around that could accept hdd or dvd drives so i used that. PROBLEM 2= no available partitions/hdd available to install mac osx to. SOLUTION: basically after hours and hours of thinking and tinkering. iv come to the following conclusions: 1- the drive you want to install to has to be on the first bus on the mobo and as a MASTER anything else and it wont get detected (i simply swapped hdds) 2- try and create a partition in fat32 format before doing the install. basically with this one the installation wasnt accepting my terabyte drive so i went out and got a cheap 80gb one (£35) , i removed my other drives and just stuck the new one in and made sure it was MASTER and on the first bus, i then went into the installation and it was found. i created 2 partitions one JMACOS type and the other as free space. (30ish GBs each partition) PROBLEM 3= after installing it asks to restart but hangs. SOLUTION: restart manually!!! simple as. PROBLEM 4= after restart get a B0 error. SOLUTION: need to set your partition as active! i did this by putting in the installation disk and going into terminal and doing the following: diskutil list fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 p f 1 write y exit and then restarted and volia! mac osx all good (well apart from wireless / sound etc but il figure that out later!) as for the other disks with windows on? well i havent tried it but id imagaine i could simply use my mobos disk boot function to select which HDD to boot from. Hope this helps some people! If you need any advice give us a shout and il see if i can help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48151-my-problemsmy-solutions/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackintom Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 But your 8800 GTS doesn't work, does it ? Do you have QE/CI/OpenGL working ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48151-my-problemsmy-solutions/#findComment-344899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamtheoneneo Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 doesnt work in what sense? it displays the desktop etc etc (only at 1024x768 - which i need to sort out) i havent done any tweaking to the actual drivers yet tho, that will come in time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48151-my-problemsmy-solutions/#findComment-344900 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhero360 Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 I have a 8800 GTS 640MB in my Hackintosh too, no QE/CI/OpenGL either and resolution set to 1024x768. I'd love to get a driver for this card too. Does anyone have a solution for this? And are you able to restart your Mac OSX? My Mac always hangs when I do restart, but shutdown always works right. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48151-my-problemsmy-solutions/#findComment-344939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamtheoneneo Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 yeh the 8800 drivers arent available yet - hopefully someone will find a way soon enough. as for restart hanging yeh mines the same but shutdown is fine. atm im trying to get my cd (ide ) drive to work and wireless through usb! both pains in the arse. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48151-my-problemsmy-solutions/#findComment-344983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizixpro Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Step one did you get a no smoking sortof logo on the restart after install? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48151-my-problemsmy-solutions/#findComment-345775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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