sekinto Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 When I try to install Mac OS X from a DVD it doesn't seem to pick up my hard drive. Because when I get to the part where I have to choose a volume to install it to... it shows no devices, partitions, anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luk0r Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 Yep, same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sekinto Posted June 19, 2007 Author Share Posted June 19, 2007 Here are my storage specs for reference: IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce 430/410 Serial ATA Controller IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce 430/410 Serial ATA Controller IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller SCSI/RAID Controller Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Disk Drive SAMSUNG HD080HJ/P SCSI Disk Device (80 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II) Optical Drive LITE-ON COMBO SOHC-4836K ATA Device Optical Drive TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S162L ATA Device SMART Hard Disks Status Unknown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimond Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 Have you tried going to disk utility, then deleting and re-formatting your drive? That should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luk0r Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 Have you tried going to disk utility, then deleting and re-formatting your drive? That should work. Nothing appears in the disk utility in the first place for me. Absolutely nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sekinto Posted June 19, 2007 Author Share Posted June 19, 2007 Have you tried going to disk utility, then deleting and re-formatting your drive? That should work. Yeah, I was recomended to do that by another person. The problem is that the only device that shows up under the disc utility is which ever one of my CD/DVD drives I put the disc in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sekinto Posted June 20, 2007 Author Share Posted June 20, 2007 Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartango Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 Interesting. There have been many reported problems like yours on nforce4 chipset mobos, but in general the problem is with the SATA controller, not IDE. This is odd, but not surprising, considering the number of problems we have had with nforce4. i suggest you look around at the nforce4 fixes, perhaps they have something working. If nothing else, you can be pretty sure the problem is the ide controller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sekinto Posted June 20, 2007 Author Share Posted June 20, 2007 Interesting. There have been many reported problems like yours on nforce4 chipset mobos, but in general the problem is with the SATA controller, not IDE. This is odd, but not surprising, considering the number of problems we have had with nforce4. i suggest you look around at the nforce4 fixes, perhaps they have something working. If nothing else, you can be pretty sure the problem is the ide controller. Could you be kind enough to point me to where the I find these nForce4 workarounds? Sorry, but this is my first day in the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnytluxury Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 I'd say update your BIOS, and see if that helps you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sekinto Posted June 20, 2007 Author Share Posted June 20, 2007 I'd say update your BIOS, and see if that helps you. That still didn't solve the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartermp Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 I have the same issue with an Acer Aspire 5050. It is not listed in the compatability list, but gives no errors during the verbose mode on bootup. It starts right up, but no disks listed in the install box, or disk utility. I tried several tutorials thinking it needed to be in the FreeBSD format before it would recognize it, but that did not work either. I have tried to use Acronis Disk Director to format it, and even showed the Linux ID of scsi12. I am wondering if this is related, but not sure. I am looking for the nforce issues now, and hope someone finds some resolution! Thanks for the great site! Marco Carter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sekinto Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 I have the same issue with an Acer Aspire 5050. It is not listed in the compatability list, but gives no errors during the verbose mode on bootup. It starts right up, but no disks listed in the install box, or disk utility. I tried several tutorials thinking it needed to be in the FreeBSD format before it would recognize it, but that did not work either. I have tried to use Acronis Disk Director to format it, and even showed the Linux ID of scsi12. I am wondering if this is related, but not sure. I am looking for the nforce issues now, and hope someone finds some resolution! Thanks for the great site! Marco Carter Thanks for posting, do you know if any older versions will work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartermp Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 No, I am not sure. I would assume that the newer versions would be the better. I am open to any suggestions though! I think this is turning out to be a SATA or nforce issue. I am trying to install this on another laptop, and getting the waiting for root device error, argh. I would think there would be a way to load the drivers or add the drive in terminal. Some of the tutorials show to use disk0sx and some say rdisk0sx, does anyone know the difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luk0r Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 My motherboard uses the ULi 1695 chipset, so it's nothing to do with nforce4 here. I have my bios updated up to the latest version and everything. Probably just a crappy SATA controller or something. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisnahari Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 cartermp, i just bought aspire 5050 today. having the same problems with you (no hdd listed, except for 4,4gb installation dvd)... i'll try to look for some answers on the net now. and if you do find some answers could you please be kind to share it with me? thanks... don't let this thread dry x-na Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lkr Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 did you create a FAT32 partition outside of the setup, relaunch it, then run disk utility, choose the fat 32, and erase with OS X Journaled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 try configuring you hard drives as ide instead of ahci (<--i think that is what i did) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisnahari Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 @Lkr i did delete the partition, recreated it using fat32 with xp installation dvd. and still there is no hdd listed on the disk utility. the osx86 10.4.8 installer is good, i can verify that because i have installed on my desktop pc earlier and it went fine (except for vga and no sound). @Soundless i don't know how to do that... can you enlighten me more? i'll ask uncle google meanwhile... ohh.. i can't find ahci setting on my bios... i need to disable ahci right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrx Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I'm using Asprise 5052 and it's the same as Kris , nothing listed in D.U except DVD Driver . does it need a patch to sovle the problem ? My OS X86 ver is jas 10.4.8 Sse 2 + Sse3 Intel Amd.. It was not patched with PPF1 and PPf 2 , Anyone tried ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartermp Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I have not tried it, but would be very interested to see the results! I would love to get this thing going, but am wondering if we are just spinning our wheels.....does anyone know if other sata drives work with this version? BTW, never mentioned, but I am using 10.4.6..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumborash Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 so does ani1 have solution for this prob? i also encounter only a dvd drink in the disk utility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fix Miller Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 i ecounted the same problem, check u'r HDD jumper configuration, it should be on MASTER - bios recognized the HDD without the jumper but the OS disk utility didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisnahari Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 yup i used the same iso, mrx... no luck, so i have to install vista to get my jobs done first. maybe i'll try again this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmcnano Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 well if someone gets something i would appreciate it...since i have the same laptop and i would like to install OSX86 on it! ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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