tristan.oneil Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I've tried installing Mac OS X Tiger before, on some older hardware. I used the JAS DVD back then, but it just didn't work all that well but that is probably due to the fact that the hardware I was running it on was a AMD Athlon 64 which only supported SSE2 instructions. Well anyway, a couple of days ago I started to read into how the OSX86 community was going and I read on Lifehacker.com that the OSX86 community was able to get Leopard running on X86 hardware with a vanilla kernel. I was wicked excited to hear this so I rushed out and bought some parts for my first Hackintosh build. Here are the specs. Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Samsung SH-S203B DVD burner 2GB of DDR2 667 Memory (I used G.Skill) Shuttle SD30G2 barebones 250GB SeaGate SATA2 Hard drive and to finish it off I got a Apple keyboard, and a Apple Mighty Mouse. The system is awesome its really fast (faster than my MacBook) I plan on overclocking it in the future as this processor is awesome for overclocking. I also plan on buying a PCIE graphics card (I'm using the built in GMA950 right now) I would just like to thank everyone in the community that helped make this so easy. It was literally no harder to do than if I am installing it on a real mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLinyC Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Lucky you, in my computer is impossible to boot from dvd kalyway 10.5.1... "boot.com.apple.plist not found" I choose ACHI en mi JMICRON but nothing... wiht iATKOS the same thing... omg Help me please if you want... My PC is: ASUS P5K Premium Black Pearl Edition Intel Core2quad Q6600 4GB Corsair DDR2 800Mhz 4-4-4-12 nVidia 8800GT 512MB and a IDE dvd burner LG... works fine but... no boot's from dvd... jmicron is compatible with kalyway... i don't understand... sorry for my poor english Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yan.kun Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 On Klayway try to install PC EFI by hand after installtion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLinyC Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 On Klayway try to install PC EFI by hand after installtion. Sorry but... how? i mean, i can't boot from dvd, and i must boot from usb with pc efi??? with ms-dos or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tristan.oneil Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 @iLinyC when you are booting from the Kalyway install what happens if you hit F8 when it starts to boot from the disc and at the boot: prompt type in -v. Try this and tell me what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLinyC Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Ok i'm going to try this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tristan.oneil Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 Also I noticed on the OSX86 wiki that for your motherboard it says. "SATA and IDE working (you have to set SATA to IDE mode in BIOS)" so you might want to look through your bios and make sure that his is setup correctly. You can read more about your motherboard: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.1#ASUS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLinyC Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 edit: OK i'm going to try achi on jmicron and IDE on sata one moment please edit2:The same error jmicron on ACHI and SATA harddrives on IDE and nothing PD. i can make a video and show you the error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tristan.oneil Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 Hmm...if you want to make a video that would be good. Have you tried typing -v a the boot prompt? If so what does it do? Anyone else want to chime it? Anyone else have a similar experience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLinyC Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 If I do not pulsate rapidly f8, there gives me the mistake directly, but if I give him rapidly, I enter the "console" and put -v, he give me the same error i make the video with te parameters of jmicron and sata, 10 minutes and upload to youtube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLinyC Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 ehmm... Forgive the wait ... I had some problems... Vid: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=BqTmI5YUfZk Maybe I need a sata drive... I think it is the most logical and easiest solution... :SSSSSSSSSSSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaneda3600 Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I had the same Kalyway problem on my ASUS P5K-E motherboard. Try installing Kalyway on a external USB drive. I used my HD-DVD xbox 360 drive and that worked for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tristan.oneil Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 Yea, my guess is it had to do with the IDE LG drive if kaneda says it works with a USB drive then I am even more certain that it is the IDE controller not functioning properly with the Kalyway install. Why don't you buy or borrow (if you know someone that can lend you a SATA drive) a cheap SATA drive and see if that works, or take kaneda's advice and use a USB drive to install. You can get the same drive that I got from Newegg.com for $30 it is a SATA DVD Burner, and it seemed to work perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macattak Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Tristan.oneil I am planning on buying a rigg just like yours. Did everything work out of the box? If not could you post what you did to get everything to work? All the apps work? I am curious because I want to order everything you bought. Thank you Macattak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tristan.oneil Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 Almost everything worked perfectly fine out of the box. Some things to know though is you need a patch for the audio and the network but it is incredibly easy to patch. Some information on installing on this hardware can be found here: http://wildwobby.com/hardware/build-a-mac-for-350/ Besides patching audio and network it works pretty much perfectly. The only other thing that doesn't work is sleep, but you get over that quickly because you are so amazed by how well everything else works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennny Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 try external dvd drive thats how i was able to install it and typing -v -f together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cf_al_bs Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 i have the same prob as iLinyC. So close and yet so far! ah! ill have to try get my hands on an external dvd or a sata one either... hmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symmel Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Help any body, when i try it out I get tis message: The output file or device is not writable Unable to copy file! Help help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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