Hiya,

The most important change in the bios is to change Onboard Device Configuration > MCP storage config > SATA Operation Mode to AHCI and to use a SATA hard drive. I tried IDE and got no joy at all.

Beware if you are dual booting that this will make Windows XP blue-screen until you add extra drivers to it (which I haven't done yet) Vista I believe is fine.

I am using an IDE DVD drive because my SATA one disappears when I change to AHCI mode.

I have currently been trying to get it going with my 2x Nvidia 7600gs PCIe cards - but I am going to experiment with onboard graphics later and see if I can solve the resoludion problem.

I also did a very plain install following the guidelines on the disk and made few changes other than to select the Voodoo 9.5 Kernel.

Hope this helps.

For whatever reason, I get a kernel panic when I try and install in AHCI mode. I am going to reset my BIOS completely and change it only to AHCI mode and see what happens then.

One more thing, so when you try and boot into the OS X drive do you have to go into BIOS and switch it to AHCI mode every time you want to boot? Or once it's installed can you switch it back to IDE mode and boot from it wither way?

Thanks.

So I reset my BIOS and changed nothing but the mode to ACHI. I even went into GParted Live CD and formatted the one and only IDE drive I have to HFS+. I even unplugged all of my SATA drives just to eliminate any possibilities of problems. I start up my machine, hit F8 and run the disc with iATKOS 7 from my slave IDE dvd drive. I hit F8 and then run the disk under -V so I can see where the problem is.

It seems as though it cannot mount the disk. Thats the last thing written in the dagnostics. Then it goes into the grey screen with the color spin wheel and never stops....forever. I can't get past that screen.

WTF!!!

It really is a frustrating process isn't it - what seems to work for one fails for someone else - I can't begin to count the number of DVD's I have turned into coasters in the last week trying to get a system to load and I just seem to have hit lucky with the iATKOS v7 disk. You could have knocked me over with a feather when it all booted up.

To answer your first question I cannot get it to boot in IDE mode at all - has to be AHCI.

AHCI only affects SATA ports, so using it would not help if you are using an IDE disk.

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AsRock P45TS | C2D E8200 | GeForce 8600GTS
Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.1 + Windows 7 Ultimate 6.1.7600 + Fedora 11

Set SATA to AHCI. Boot 132 w/ Voodoo kernel (9.5 or 9.7) works perfectly with retail. Using AMD w/ 750a chipset.

Hello I know this forum is about the m3n-ht. I have the crosshair II formula which is the difference. If anyone can help this would be awesome. I get Idened 10.5.6 to install, but the second it restarts i go into a restart loop. I get the Apple with spinning wheel for about a sec and system reboots.Darwin boot menu work fine. I have tried different commands and no go. IPC 10.5 PPF will not even load the install for the cd. Thanks for your time on reading.

Spec
MB:Crosshair II Formula
Memory: 8gb Ocz Fetal1ty
HDD: Seagate Sata on achi mode with two partitions. Vista on one fully running.
Processor: AMD 955 phenom x4

Hi bigweeve,

I got the exact same motherboard as yours, I can install the iAtkos v7 till completion (still have to enter busratio=17, I have a phenom II 965@3400 Mhz at stock speed, to get past the kernel panic screen, at DVD boot or HDD boot after install)
I would like to know which packages, kernel, fixes that you chose from the customization panel, to get it working.

My specs:

ASUS M3N-HT deluxe MOBO with 2904 bios
Kingston HyperX 4 gig PC6400 @ 800 mhz in dual channel mode
2x evga 9800 GTX+ vid cards
onboard sound
my usb keyboard and mouse are working with the DVD, so they are not an issue

Tried the voodoo 9.7, 9.5, modbin (no kernel panic with this one) any of the 2 chamaleon bootloader, and also the one that gives a BootCamp look (nice one and it works, I can boot into windows 7 with it, have to choose the "System Reserved" partition, since the win7 bootmgr is on that partition)

would appreciate your help, and it would be really appreciated for other with same board too
thanks in advance!
EDIT: Figured out the problem, OSX86 does not work well with 2 vid cards plugged in!
now it works perfectly, just put out one of my 2 9800 GTX+ and everything is going well. Added NVenabler in my install and everytihng is working!

Thanx to everyone on all those forums and web sites that gave me a lot of hint to get it sorted out!

Tomorrow I will install World Of Warcraft and will post the result here!

And by the way i'm writing this post from my new hackintosh AMD M3N-HT computer!

Ok Guys everything is still Working, for those who want to know all the steps taken, go to this guide, scroll down the list, I've added the M3N-HT in the list of compatibilities, so now it will be accounted as another working AMD Hackintosh.
There is information on what to do if you get kernel panic at DVD boot or Darwin boot.

@Bigweeve: forget about installing a dual setup, it is not supported by MacOSX. Just put one card out, and you'll be fine. You may have to reinstall all the OS, NVInject should work with that vid card.

Hope that my little guide on the osx86 wiki web site will help a lot of people here.
Those who have a M4N82 should follow the same guide, since those board are pretty much the same as the M3N-HT