r3ph0rm@t Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Greetings fellow hackers, I purchased a new system for Christmas this year and spent hours researching to ensure I had all 100% compatible hardware so that the OS X Leopard install would go smoothly. Unfortunately it was not as smooth as I would've liked. Let me begin with my setup then with the problems. MSI 945GCM5-F LGA 775 Intel 945GC Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail XFX PVT73GUGF3 GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Supported Video Card - Retail Kingston 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KVR667D2N5K2/2G - Retail I have downloaded all possible builds of Leopard 10.5.1 (Kalyway, iATKOS v1.0ir2, ToH). However only Kalyway will boot into installer and only using "cpus=1" flag. The others will either be in a reboot cycle or they will hang at apple grey screen. I am able to get Kalyway installed with vanilla kernel successfully, but when I attempt to reboot it hangs at a flashing cursor. I know there are fixes out there, but I can't seem to get a 10.4 disk to boot to allow me to use the fixes. I did see somewhere that using the dvd and letting it boot the partition would work. That does get me to a grey apple on white background screen, but will not go any further. I will attempt to install Kalyway without the vanilla flag to see if it is just the kernel, but everything should work with it. If anyone has any advice, assistance, or encouragement I would GREATLY appreciate it. I'm kinda disappointed at the moment because I bought this machine specifically for OSX86. Thanks in advance, Seth Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
deevo Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Hey man, I just started reading up on all this stuff, and it looks interesting to say the least. As a graphic designer I refuse to be Steve Jobs' {censored} also. I can't really help you out, but I can offer encouragement From what I've learned, you'll eventually get it going if you put enough time/effort in. Speaking of which, I just saw a video on youtube of a guy that got the kalyway version going on dec 30th, after some 45 hours of buggering around (well done if you're reading this). i guess your problem could lie in the 'mix n match' nature of PC components.. My dad just got a new computer and it won't stop crashing randomly, even in XP! ..not that xp is any good , just that its DESIGNED to run properly on NEW pcs. Anyway good luck, and be patient, cuz you'll figure it out. who knows, maybe even updating your motherboard bios could fix it! if you can't find something by looking in the likely places, start looking in all the unlikely places haha. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/#findComment-562107 Share on other sites More sharing options...
r3ph0rm@t Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 Thanks for the encouragement deevo. I had a thought while sitting at my desk that I should try introducing some kernel flags using the dvd to boot the partition. I had to use cpus=1 to get it to boot. Maybe I need to do the same after installing. I am referencing the forum post here. I know it isn't concerning Leopard installation, but if I can get Leo to boot somehow I will have more options to finding a solution to my blinking cursor issue. I will keep all of you up to date and hopefully my next post will be from my Leo install. Good Luck everyone. r3ph0rmat Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/#findComment-562630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeeky Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 try leaving the kalyway dvd in the drive when u start up. im having the same problem. i cant get it to start up without having the dvd in the drive! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/#findComment-562850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoonie Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 did you format the HD as a single partition GUID? (pre-install, from the kalyway installer CD) having the drive formatted as MBR was my first, and thankfully only mistake - after changing it to GUID it was all gold. i have an asrock conroe 1333 ( i think it's the same chipset as yours, but with an ICH7) - with the diabolik installer, the 7600GT oc (which i also have) works flawlessly using DVI monitors x2. good choice! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/#findComment-562862 Share on other sites More sharing options...
isotome Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 having the drive formatted as MBR was my first, and thankfully only mistake - after changing it to GUID it was all gold.- Spoonie I had the EXACT opposite result. I also bulit a Hackintosh system based on the Tiger 10.4.8 HCL. My intel Bad Axe 2 system would only boot up when the drive was formatted as MBR- Not Guid. MBR worked flawlessly with both SATA and EIDE drives. Reboot, Restart, and even sleep work perfectly. The only thing not working is onboard audio, but i expected that and use a Turtle Beach Audio Advantage external USB audio device. It works great- no problems so far. r3ph0rm@t- try formatting your drive with MBR using Kalyway's Disk Utility( 1 partition) when first installing. Then select vanilla + ACPI fix, all audio drivers, NVinject for your XFX Geforce 7600GT, and of course- MBR- NOT GUID. you did not state what processor you have, but if it is a Core 2 Duo or Core Duo with SSE3- You are golden. It should work. You are using intel chipsets that are supported. I am also kind of a noob to this OSX86 scene, but i have my dream Hackintosh working and am very pleased. I had problems with earlier distros -Tiger based- but Kalyway worked for me. It should also work for you. Don't forget to turn off MaxCPUID in your BIOS to get system profiler to work correctly. Good Luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/#findComment-563085 Share on other sites More sharing options...
r3ph0rm@t Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 So I followed ideas from both Spoonie and isotome. My latest install is following instructions word for word from isotome. Both installs had the same results. Grey screen with cursor, but no further activity. I'm not sure where to go from here. Maybe there is a debug file somewhere that will give me more information. Any ideas guys? BTW thanks for the help so far everyone. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/#findComment-563135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSXtotheZ Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 mann, your real close don't give up. i know it sucks after DLing every freaking installer thats out there but we are dealing with a square peg and round hole so to speak. I have not yet tried the Kalyway 10.5.1 what worked for me was the brazil install and then the efi and vanilla update after that. I used the kaly make bootable DVD and MBR formatting. My components are real similar to yours. If your up for it you might want to try and give the ol brazilmac installer a try. Theres a sticky called "perfect install" in these forums its a good read for sure. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/#findComment-570837 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deviant0ne Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 r3ph0rm@t: Try booting the Kaly DVD, and at boot type -v rd=diskXsY (sub in your disk identifier numbers) and see if you can't get your install to boot. If you are able to boot OS X that way, at least you'll know that your install is somewhat healthy and you can fix your boot error from there. It sounds like we are having close to the same issue, which I believe is an AppleACPIPlatform problem. Does your screen look like this when you try and boot with no flags? Which processor are you using? That could have something to do with it... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/#findComment-570890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamselv Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 My first post !! My Dell e1505 will not boot from the hard-drive - just shows a flashing cursor in the top left corner. r3ph0rm@t: Try booting the Kaly DVD, and at boot type -v rd=diskXsY (sub in your disk identifier numbers) and see if you can't get your install to boot. If you are able to boot OS X that way, at least you'll know that your install is somewhat healthy and you can fix your boot error from there. When I insert the DVD, the system will boot up on the harddrive, without doing anything I tried typing -v rd=disk0s1 but this just boots on the DVD I have made two partitions, the first for OSX86 the second free, I use MBR and have remembered to mark BOOT_efi_mbr My conclussion is that the boot loader is missing - I have no idea how to install one on OSX86, I am new to OSX86 but have 20 years Unix/BSD/Linux experience Any help appreciated Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/#findComment-572298 Share on other sites More sharing options...
docd Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 hello, i once had the blinking cursor issue myself, the hard disk was formatted as MBR. after successfull installation and reboot i just had a blinking cursor when the bootloader was supposed to come up (no b0 error). the solution to this problem was that my target drive for the os was named "mein mac". i then saw in the installation log that the script for activating the partition had troubles mounting and unmounting that partition because the name consisted of two words. after changing the partition name to "macos" (you can use anything as long as it is one word) installing went fine, and the script did not mention some problems with unmounting. the computer rebooted and the bootloader showed up. see if this will work for you, good luck docd Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/#findComment-572697 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamselv Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 the solution to this problem was that my target drive for the os was named "mein mac".... after changing the partition name to "macos" .... the computer rebooted and the bootloader showed up. That was it - thanks a lot docd - I should have know better than to put a space in the name Now I just need to find out how to get use of both cores in my Dell e1505 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/#findComment-573531 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikos manias Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Hi all , I was in the same trouble with the booting problem after installing. Then I saw somewhere on the Forum that the name allocated to the HD was important to appear as one word:e.g. MacOSX not Mac OSX . I re-installed and it worked like charm. :D Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/#findComment-573804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
icecreamskateteam Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 alright so ive tryed everything that everyones said on here and nothings working. every time i try to boot from the dvd on the kalyway it wont even go past the darwin screen. it just sits there spinning and then shuts down, restarts, and goes back to darwin. so far ive tryed iatkos and this, and nothings working, on the iatkos it goes to the apple loading screen and just sits there it wont go to the installer. ive used the JaS 10.4.7 and i had no problem everything installed and everything. does anyone have an idea what to do its getting really annoying. i want to get this thing to work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/#findComment-573989 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballantines Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 same problem here, can boot only with cpus=1 waiting for a patch.... I think a bugfix will come soon... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/#findComment-577635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elementguy27 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 r3ph0rm@t I have your exact motherboard My Specs: Motherboard - MSI 945GCM5-F LGA 775 Intel 945GC Micro ATX CPU - E2140 1.6 dual core 1MB L2 Cache RAM - 1GB DDR2 533 from older PC First off you shouldn't be discouraged, I did the same thing as you, I bought your same motherboard over Christmas and intended on using it specifically for OSX86 use as well, and mine is doing just fine! I've installed JaS 10.4.7, 10.4.8.......ToH 10.5.1.....Kalyway 10.4.10 and 10.5.1 which I am currently using as we speak. I've been able to get all of these to work with no problems booting, so don't give up. It sounds like one of your optical drives is bad, either the one your burning with or the one in your OSX86 machine. You didn't say what type of hard drive you where using, or what type of optical drive....SATA or IDE? I'm using everything IDE, and I have not tested SATA yet. I built an OSX86 system for a friend but I couldn't get the SATA to work on theirs.....that could be your problem. I stuck with IDE when I built mine, just to be safe, but it would be nice to know if the SATA controller on this board works with OS X! If your using IDE and you have a successful install but it won't boot, I would suggest fixing the MBR with a windows installation disk, I know it sounds stupid but I've had two problems booting in the past, with my machine and a friends, both times fixing the MBR solved the problem, I'm not sure why cause I know Kalyway writes its own MBR??? Have you tried to boot any other operating system on that motherboard, theres a small chance it could be bad? I would try changing the optical drive and hard drive if nothing else works, cause that motherboard DOES work with OS X! Fyi, if you do get it working the onboard LAN does not work, and the alc888 sound doesn't work either, I had an old 3com LAN card I just popped in and that solved my internet problem! As for the sound I've tried a number of patches(AppleHDApatcher) and installers but nothing works, I can get it to look like I have sound but nothing comes out. I'm using the onboard GMA 950 graphics and it works great with Kalyway, and I've also tried an EVGA 7300GT with 512MB and it works great using NVinject. Kalyway is by far the best build I've seen, I freaking love it and I'm starting to hate my windows machine. It sucks that I can't get the sound working because I know other people have gotten the alc888 to work on there machine, I'm looking into a USB sound fix. I hope this helped, just trying to support a fellow hacker. Oh yeah I installed kalyway with MBR not GUID, with no kernel selected Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79260-kalyway-boot-problem/#findComment-581711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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