Okay I have no idea what to do...(Installing OSX on SATA)

oneshot · #1 02-20-2009, 03:57 AM

Okay so I have been asking questions around to gain knowledge so I can solve my problem and you guys have been amazing on giving me feedback and answering my questions but I'm stumped and have no idea how to solve my problem =X

Heres what's up

Goal: Installing OSX86 on my SATA hardrive.

Distros tried:

IPC 10.5.6

Leo4All V.5

iDeneb v.1.4

Kalyway 10.5.2

Problem: Every distro boots to my system. Only IPC and Leo4All recognize my SATA hardrive.

Now when I try to format my SATA hardrive I get this very lame error.

"Disk Erase Failed: Input/output error" (and no I'm not erasing it with MS-DOS (FAT) )

Now so far what I know is that I believe it has to do with my Chipset. Now with my knowledge I believe that by my chipset is my motherboard. In that case my motherboard is a ECS GeForce 7050M-M.

So If I am correct (which Im questioning) I need to get the kexts (drivers) for my chipset so OSX will be able to deal with erasing my hardrive correctly.

I have NO idea where to get these kexts or where to look for them.

I know that I have asked this question before but It was never solved and I decided that it is definitely time to revisit it because you guys are the only reliable people to go to (insanelymac hasn't even attempted to answer my question and its been a month)

kael · #2 02-20-2009, 06:10 AM

Hey, what did u use to partition your HDD? I have experienced the same problme when partitioned with Acronis DIsk Director and finally got problem resolved by repartitioning and use XP's Install CD to partition -- after fresh installing of XP and setting boot flag to the main partition OS X finally saw my HDD and erased it to HFS+.

Good Luck!

Regards,

Kael

oneshot · #3 02-20-2009, 07:13 AM

What do you mean?

I have windows 7 installed on my SATA hardrive that I'm wanting to format.

Sooo are you saying I should try installing Windows XP on it.

How do I set up a boot flag? Is that where I start OSX with " -f " ?

Last thing, What is HFS+?

Thanks for replying

oneshot · #4 02-23-2009, 03:22 AM

okay I installed Windows XP and tried deleting my hardrive after that and had no luck =/

same error...

Anymore suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

scififan68 · #5 02-23-2009, 06:10 AM

I thought I/O means bad hardrive, because when I get those on my flash drives, they can't be used anymore. Edit: this could be a driver problem as well, I've had i/o problems with cd's and my sata dvd writer.

oneshot · #6 02-23-2009, 06:47 AM

hmmmm damn. I was hoping that a broken hardrive would be the last thing to think about...

I don't know where the kext files are....ahhh oh well...I guess Im going to have to save up for another hard drive "tear"

Taisto · #7 02-23-2009, 01:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oneshot

What do you mean?

I have windows 7 installed on my SATA hardrive that I'm wanting to format.

Sooo are you saying I should try installing Windows XP on it.

How do I set up a boot flag? Is that where I start OSX with " -f " ?

Last thing, What is HFS+?

Thanks for replying

I was having the same problem when trying to format Vista`s partition - it seemed to be locked somehow. Do you have any Linux live cd ? Try Ubuntu for example, delete all partitions, create new one with FAT16 or 32 filesystem ready for OSX.
You can manage bootflags with Ubuntu`s manager aswell the easy way if you mean partition`s boot flags.
If you mean bootloader`s boot flags - yepp, it`s when you type -f.
And, HFS+ is Apple`s Hierarchical File System used for OSX.

"I don't know where the kext files are" - what kexts files are you looking for ?

demigod · #8 02-23-2009, 01:56 PM

Looks like you got a company.any way he passed formating and went through installation .ask him what kext he used.it may help you

http://www.infinitemac.com/f5/mcp68-...ial-ata-t2049/

oneshot · #9 02-24-2009, 08:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Taisto

I was having the same problem when trying to format Vista`s partition - it seemed to be locked somehow. Do you have any Linux live cd ? Try Ubuntu for example, delete all partitions, create new one with FAT16 or 32 filesystem ready for OSX.
You can manage bootflags with Ubuntu`s manager aswell the easy way if you mean partition`s boot flags.
If you mean bootloader`s boot flags - yepp, it`s when you type -f.
And, HFS+ is Apple`s Hierarchical File System used for OSX.

"I don't know where the kext files are" - what kexts files are you looking for ?

Thank you for the suggestion! Im defiantly going to try linux next considering its closer to OSX than windows is ( Unix kernal

) hopefully my hardrive is reconised after installing linux on it.

Thank you for the information on HFS+ as well.

The kext that I was talking about was my chipset kext. I have herd that the chipset kext may be whats messing up my attempt to delete my SATA.

@demigod, I'll definitely check out that thread to see if anything will help. Thank you.

Thanks to everyone for all the great support!

xanep · #10 03-16-2009, 11:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oneshot

"Disk Erase Failed: Input/output error" (and no I'm not erasing it with MS-DOS (FAT) )

I Had the same problem. You should set id=AF for this partition before trying to erase.