My AMD rig simply will not work with OS X. Help please?!

Huskehn · #1 11-26-2011, 02:09 AM

I have been at this for the longest time. I've spent days straight trying to get this to work. I've spent hours and hours and I've had no luck whatsoever. Whenever I fix a problem another one arises.

~~To start - I DO NOT have access to a Mac. Any methods that require a Mac or any machine running OS X are out of the question.~~

I've tried every combination of BIOS settings you could possibly fathom, and no, my BIOS does not have any options relative to SATA AHCI or IDE modes. I've tried iATKOS v7, iATKOS L2, SnowLeo 10.6.2, and a retail Snow Leopard 10.6.0 DVD. I've tried iBoot, OSx86 ModCD, and a legacy boot cd. None of these, in any combination with each other, have gotten to the installation screen. They've either stopped at the infamous "Still waiting for root device", spammed SuperNForceATA errors, or simply rebooted my machine. iATKOS L2 just reboots or gives me a black screen. With all of these distros I've tried multitudes of boot commands, including busratio=17, -v, -x, -f, rd=disk#s#, and more I can't remember, all in just about every combination you can imagine, on both SATA and IDE disks... and none of them have gotten to the install screen.

I've posted this question on countless forums and I've never found a solution. Here are my specs. If anyone can help me get OS X running on this computer, I will be forever in your debt. Forever. I will dedicate my life to worshiping your hackintosh skills and knowledge. I will build a shrine in my house dedicated to your likeness, and it will be the greatest shrine of any shrine ever created for the one(s) who helped me get OS X running on my system - a procedure with difficulty equivalent to neurosurgery.

Here's my specs.

ASUS M4N68T-M V2 (Nvidia GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a Chipset)
AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE
4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 RAM
MSI Nvidia GTX460

Any help would be very, very greatly appreciated.

Edit:

In what scientists are calling "f---ing amazing", I got iATKOS L2 to install on my ASUS UL50VT laptop. So any methods that I can use to help get OS X on my desktop using my laptop now running Lion are available to me.

silverkid · #2 11-26-2011, 03:56 PM

You can't install iAtkos L2 on your AMD because there's no kernel for that yet. Have you tried iAtkos S3 v2? Also, here's a guide for nForce mobos, you can get the kexts you need from here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=184224

Huskehn · #3 11-27-2011, 04:05 AM

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Originally Posted by silverkid

You can't install iAtkos L2 on your AMD because there's no kernel for that yet. Have you tried iAtkos S3 v2? Also, here's a guide for nForce mobos, you can get the kexts you need from here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=184224

Thank you silverkid! I didn't realize that the problem was the kernel. I have successfully installed OS X 10.6 using chocolate_kernel. Sound and LAN are working, and all of my SATA and IDE drives are recognized! I have a few problems now that I'm trying to get sorted out: One is that USB flash drives are not recognized when I plug them in and my USB mouse and keyboard only work most of the time. However, I'm sure I can find a kext to get USB working. My plan is to then upgrade to Lion using UniBeast and the Lion installation app. Since Lion has native support for my graphics card, the Nvidia GTX 460 (GF104), I'm not going to try to install graphics drivers in Snow Leopard - it boots fine with GraphicsEnabler=No.

Once I get Lion installed, I should be good! However, I'm being optimistic. If I encounter any more problems, I'll post them here. I'm documenting what I do as I do it, so if I get this working, I'll be able to start helping others with similar hardware.

hans88 · #4 11-27-2011, 04:29 AM

Concerning LION friend, I can advise you to give up for now, as no AMD kernel for LION has been created yet!!! If you do found one, do let me know as I'm keeping in touch everyday to look what about Nawcom's or AnV has done, and no legacy kernel yet has been done!!

Huskehn · #5 11-27-2011, 04:31 AM

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Originally Posted by hans88

Concerning LION friend, I can advise you to give up for now, as no AMD kernel for LION has been created yet!!! If you do found one, do let me know as I'm keeping in touch everyday to look what about Nawcom's or AnV has done and yet no legacy kernel!!

Ah, I'd need a new kernel for Lion? I suppose that makes sense. Well, thank you for warning me! If I ever find one and get it to work I'll be sure to let you know.

hans88 · #6 11-27-2011, 04:48 AM

Of course you will need a new kernel as LION uses Darwin 11.0 whereas Snow Leopard uses up to 10.8. Im too AMD user, but can advise you to think forward to switch to INTEL in mid 2012 like me when DDR4 will be commercialised. As what I heard, future APPLE major apps will require SSSE 3 CPU instructions like; FINAL CUT PRO which only INTEL cpu's have. For now you can still run Snow 10.6.8. The only two persons who I know on the OS X scene, who can make a kernel for LION are AnV and Nawcom. So keep in touch!!!

Huskehn · #7 11-27-2011, 08:08 AM

Alright, ran into a problem. Got 10.6.8 working just fine - QE/CI works, pretty much everything else I can think of is working fine. Except for my keyboard. I've tried both USB and PS/2 keyboards, and neither will work. I'll get to the login screen and be unable to type my password, but can move the mouse. I've tried turning USB Legacy on/off in my BIOS, and have tried both USB 1.0 and USB 2.0 in my bios - none of these allow my keyboard to work. One boot it did work, almost randomly, but I haven't been able to get it to work since.

I've tried replacing AppleHIDKeyboard and IOUSBFamily with the versions from 10.6 with no luck. Is this a DSDT problem? If so, I really don't know much about DSDT editing, but I'll learn if I must.

By the way, I have two SL installs on the same hard drive: one partition is 10.6 and the other is the one I'm trying to get completely working with 10.6.8. I did this so that if I run into problems on the 10.6.8 partition (which I am), I can boot to the 10.6 one and try to fix it.

Thanks again for your help!

Edit:

It seems I just had to wait a minute. The keyboard worked after that. Very strange!

hans88 · #8 11-27-2011, 12:50 PM

I have a IOUSBFAMILY FIX.pkg installer, which I think may resolve your problem. Can you suggest a way I can send it to you??

silverkid · #9 11-27-2011, 03:54 PM

Your problem with the USB might come from the fact that you use chocolate_kernel... I don't really know what that is but you should use the appropriate legacy_kernel for your OSX version. If after you changed your kernel you still have that problem, try this site: http://www.osx86.net/ It has a lot of kexts and interesting apps that could help you.

Huskehn · #10 11-27-2011, 08:39 PM

hans88, you could upload the file to a site such as Mediafire or Filesmelt and paste the link here - I'd appreciate it!

silverkid, I'll experiment some other kernels. I can't say I know much about that area of OS X, but I'll learn.

Thanks for the help guys! It's appreciated.