Hellerphant Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 G'day Guys I am a huge Mac enthusiast and want to turn my high end pc into a mac I downloaded Uphuck 10.4.9 v1.2 and burnt it to a disc, followed the instructions shrank my partition down (12 gig) then activated it using diskpart and whatnot and then when I try to install OSX it won't detect any of my drives..... I then opened up disk utility and still nothing except my DVD drive. Opened up system profiler and doesn't detect any Sata Drives I am running AMD 6000+ which is SSE3 My mobo is GA-M57SLI-S4 which is the Nforce 570 chipset I do have a new 80gb IDE drive if my Sata won't allow me to install OSX but if SATA isn't working will everything else be ok? I was reading somewhere that Ethernet doesn't work on some boards, but it seemed to be working according to the system profiler in the installation Anyways it's just after midnight and hopefully someone out there can help me out Oh and this is my first post Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62644-noob-needs-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellerphant Posted September 7, 2007 Author Share Posted September 7, 2007 Ok ok I got throught the installation on an IDE Drive but after I reboot it says HFS+ Partition Error....any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62644-noob-needs-help/#findComment-443586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
frizbot Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 OS X has trouble with some SATA chipsets. It might work, but sometimes it needs a patch. When formatting your drives in DiskUtility.app, there's an advanced options setting somewhere. You need the partition map to be set to MBR (MasterBootRecord) to boot OSX86 (Apple Partition Map is for PPC, and there's one for EFI that I've forgotten. Your "HFS Partition Error" may be due to that. If not, your motherboard's ATA controller may not be compatilbe. I don't know anything about that motherboard, but you could search the forums. Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62644-noob-needs-help/#findComment-443593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellerphant Posted September 7, 2007 Author Share Posted September 7, 2007 Ok I'll check that outYeah System Profiler doesn't see my SATA at all so I think it's safe to say that it won't recognise my Vista installation sitting on them at all and think that the IDE drive is the only drive in my PCLOL as I was writing this it got as far as the grey screen with the apple appeared....followed by a waiting period....now black command prompt that is trying to load some commands then says bad system call, and then dissapears....then re-appears.....strange....seems t be happening with.... launchd: com.aple.syslogd: exited abnormally: Bad system calllaunchd: com.aple.syslogd: respawning too quickly! Throttlingnow it's come up withlocalhost:/ I have no name!# and it will let me type but I have no idea what is going on....it;s 2:25am here loland it was doing the same for the dnsresponder command... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62644-noob-needs-help/#findComment-443600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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