You mean can not boot, right ? It probably means the drivers is not compatible with your hardware. You did not say what happen during boot up, what messages or anything. It's hard to tell from here.

First of all, OS X is design to install on Macs only, Apple never wanted any PC to run OS X. No major manufacturer actually write OS X drivers for their hardware (mother board, video, sound card and etc.). OSX86 is work of hackers, OSX86 distro = OS X + hacked drivers. Given PC with many variety combo of hardware, it is possible there is no driver for particular hardware. That's the reality of OSX86.

I suggest you try installing different driver option of your distro. It may take many tries and installing. You may also have try a different distro. Do your howework, find out how compatible is your hardware and read up insanelymac.com tutorial .

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Added on September 18, 2008, 8:26 amThat's what I thought earlier on. I used Kalyway as temp os to install retail leapord.


This post has been edited by CPURanger: Sep 18 2008, 08:26 AM

No need to take out DVD but you can try anyway. Have you check with fdisk or other disk utility to see whether partition is marked bootable ? It should be quite straight forward, install, reboot and leopard welcome screen appears (depends on distros, some distros no welcome screen).

Have you try pressing F8 to see boot up messages ?
There is no why, it may just mean it does not work with your AMD system. Although some distros claims it works with AMD, you have a better chance with an Intel, OS X is written for Intel system.

Have you try other distro like Leo4all or Kalyway ? I suggest you read up this websites http://osx86leo4all.wikidot.com/installation-support and http://osx86leo4all.wikidot.com/known-issues

This post has been edited by CPURanger: Sep 23 2008, 02:04 PM

You should able to see messages or apple logo during boot up, if you don't it means installation fail. Please try install other distros, if it still does not work, sorry la bro, your PC is not compatible. Read my replies & other threads, learn up basics of os (windows, linux and etc) installation in general and things like hard disk partitioning. I think I have gave you enough advices, it's all up to you to learn & try.

This post has been edited by CPURanger: Sep 23 2008, 11:03 PM

You can try Perian at perian.org .

Get Intel CPU, especially Core 2 Duo, don't waste time with AMD (Macs currently use Intel only). At the moment there are many motherboards & variants, I would not name type/model. IMO Gigabyte is the best choice. As for graphic card, Apple seems to favour Nvidia for new generations of Mac. Do research at insanelymac.com .

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Added on February 1, 2009, 11:43 amGengstapo, in my early experience, changing SATA ports may work sometimes. In the end I found compatible kext (IOATAFamily.kext & JMicronATA.kext) and replace it, my rig works happily ever since, upgrade to 10.5.6 with no problem. As for JMicronATA.kext, I am still using PATA DVD drive.

I have been following your threads for quite sometime. If your rig can run Kalyway and skitZo` mention motherboard similarity, in theory your system should work quite nicely. If you are familiar with command line, you have a spare hard disk and retail DVD or disk image, I suggest you try Retail DVD Guide method. Install Kalyway and copy retail iso/dmg in spare hard disk. From there boot up Kalyway & install retail to your main hard disk (follow guide). It is quick to install, much faster than DVD since the files in hard disk. This allows you to experiment with different kexts and hacks, if screw up, you can format and reinstall quickly to try again. You will have to find out which kext suitable for your motherboard, since guide is for GA-P35-DS3P motherboard.

Since Kalyway is working, you can try copy kext from Kalyway to make it work. Highly recommended to do retail install instead of various distros, distros tend leave out some leopard files and comes instead with some 3rd apps. You may have to sweat out a little though . On my PC, I have seven kexts replaced and running vanilla kernel, games like C & C 3 and apps like Adobe CS3 works pretty well.




This post has been edited by CPURanger: Feb 1 2009, 11:43 AM

Prasys, the touch screen is simulating mouse or is it using OS X Inkwell ?

No need la bro, you can buy SL at Apple Store Malaysia or perhaps you can check local Apple resellers.

Just pick this up from news, Rebel EFI by Pystar.

http://www.osnews.com/story/22386/Psystar_...eases_Rebel_EFI

http://store.psystar.com/rebel-efi-preview.html

There is a demo, anyone try it yet ? BTW it costs USD49.90.

That's too bad, Rebel-EFI turn out to be a rip off of open source projects. Thanks for the insight, prasys.

gengstapo, The reason why Apple still run 32 bit kernel as default because there are many 3rd party (Epson, Canon and etc) drivers are still in 32 bit. It will take time for them to update. There are still many software in 32 bit, hopefully it will change very soon.

At the moment I will be sticking to Leopard. As SL 10.6.1 is not stable even on real Macs.

I am using SL 10.6.1 with iMac at work, there are things not working properly. For example networking, I access another mac, it take a long time list the files. SL is clean install on the iMac. Got a report from customer, when accessing big TIFF file under SL, his iMac OS quits & reboots. Apple released SL too early, should have QC more.

Booting up is definately fastest compare to older OS X and even Windows XP/Vista. I have not try this yet, I believe SL boot up is much faster than Windows 7.

This post has been edited by CPURanger: Oct 24 2009, 07:37 PM

I interested to do boot camp, since my Leopard hard disk is GUID should be no problem. Share details please.

Obviously you have not use Mac before. Hackintosh is only 90% Mac IMO.

Under OS X you can resize bootcamp partition and also select which partition to reboot or boot up, Mac OS X or Windows partition.

Yeah not really that important but it makes Hackintosh more like Mac plus convenience.

The end of Pystar ?


Apple Crushes Clone Maker in Court

Hey gengstapo, why your PC is name "ayam" machine ?

Too many KFC ?

This post has been edited by CPURanger: Mar 17 2010, 12:15 AM