No luck with my AMD-system? What release?

[hecke92]

Hey mates,
I am new here and would like to startwith a questin right now.

I downloaded 2 releases fr my AMD-system, Hazard 10.6.2 and SnowOSX 3.6A.
But nothing does work. [same problem if booting with -v arch=i368]

Hazard shows this in verbose mode:
http://img4tw.com/i/a9d256bf.jpeg

SnowOSX just reboots, when I want to boot the DVD, it loaded these HFS+-Drivers. Then the line: Starting Mac OS X (or similar) is displayed for less than a second before it reboots.


What to do? I just detected "UniFlash 1.0" - Is that worth a try for me?


My system:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-MA770 DS3
RAM: 4GB MDT DDR2 800 Ram
GPU: GeForce 8800GTS


Thank you so much!

[Gurqn]

Could you provide your hardware specs? but is probably seems like a wrong chipset driver installed or nothing installed(sata and pata )

Which drive you are trying to boot ? Sata or ide ?

There is one drive already detected while booting but doesnt your boot partition i think.

[hecke92]

Thanks mate, I added my hardware specs to my first post.
I am trying to boot form my S-ATA II-Drive as I don't have another one. ;)

[Gurqn]

Actually i am using 790gx chipset and not selecting any chipset driver just set achi in bios for your hardrives otherwise you have to use atiata.kext if you select ide in your bios but not a via-ata.

This should fix your problem.

But firstly you should try achi.

[hecke92]

Thanks mate.

But don't get me wrong. I don't reach the install-screen, I cannot even boot.

But I tried AHCI and I still have got the same problems :(

[Gurqn]

Could you try to clean install when you boot installation dvd and installer appears open disk utility than tell me there is a your drive appear ? if yes dont select any chipset driver than re install it will be fine i think.

[hecke92]

Thanks, but the installer doesn't appear for me. I tried a retail disc with Empire EFI, but it also says "waiting for root device" :(

[00010]

He needs to inject a chipset kext into the DVD for it to work.


00010

[hecke92]

thanks, but now I am getting a kernel panic :(

[d_spice]

I'm having this same issue. I've downloaded Hazard from numerous areas thinking maybe it was the ISO. But apparently not, last thing I see is "Starting Darwin" and then the screen resets and the computer begins to reboot, don't even have the chance to see disk utility. I've tried -x -cpus=4 -busratio=20 -force64 and no luck.

I currently have Lawless PPC running smoothly on my system, but would really like to have Snow Leopard running.

How can I check in my current install what chipset kext is working and inject it into this DVD? would that work?

Please help! Thanks

[maarten12100]

I have the same chipset and its even worse than the dell chipset
The solution is to plug in a external hdd trough usb so it wont use the sata chipset wich is cousing the problem.
Once at the instal select the real hdd (sata one)
If using a distro you could get a endless reboot busratio=20 will fix it most of the time.
The first boot with movie should be with cpus=2 if x2 or cpus=4 if x4
There you go amd hackintosh;)

[ador]

retail installation of 10.6.3 works on my amd. .i use arch=i386 boot flag and it went all the way..i try to use hazard distro,it's a little bit complicated ..try retail installation.

Machine Specs:
AMD 780GM-A:ECS
AMD athlon 64 x2 6000+ Processor
A-Data 4GB 1066 MHZ DDR2
640GB WD-SATA2
Nvidia GeForce 8600GT 512Mhz
internet working - Attansic L1
Audio - Via USB Audio Dongle

[ashp]

Hi, as above a good way of keeping a live installation set for 10.6 is to install leopard iATKOSv7 plus qoopz v1.6 (voodoo 9.8.0) kernel is a great way to start. dedicate a full HDD to OS X.

make sure bios is set to AHCI, when you first format your HDD try to use GPT not MBR if possible. make 4 partitions using disk utility in iATKOS disc. 1 is snow approx 40-80GB or more. 2 is leopard (iATKOS) again same size 3 is restore image of retail Mac OS X 10.6 (Build 10A432). 10 GB or so will do and 4 is spare or iATKOS on HDD or Time Machine if any thing goes wrong call the snow partition Macintosh HD. thats what i call it and Leo or Leopard for iATKOS this really help to deal with initial issue when installing snow for the first time

iATKOS will give you chameleon v2 rc2 this can be easily updated.
once you use leopard to setup a bootloader. you can restore retail 10.6 image to a partition. HERE you can create /Extra and add boot plist kext etc

the best way to solve this common problem is to use a kext which can inject your sata controller if not natively atleast universally. ATIATA.kext is a modded AppleVIAATA kext that does the injection allow you to avoid waiting for root device message. see http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t130895.html

then replace mach_kernel manually by downloading http://www.nawcom.com/osx86/files/10.6/Kernels/10.0.0/legacy_kernel/legacy_kernel.bz2 rename this to mach_kernel or edit apple.boot.com.plist in /Extra in the retail image (Mac OS X Install DVD). add fakesmc.kext to /Extra in retail image partition.

either way you will have to edit or modify install DVD or setup files on External HDD/USB to include this kext. have a look at Empire EFI it loads necessary kexts for snow retail install to boot up properly

please pm me for specific details I will post a guide soon.

Regards,
Ash