I am making a Hackintosh but with Intel it's easy and I've made my configuration but I am thinking about AMD and especially a Phenom and if possible a 690 or a 780 chipset variety :-)

And I will check it out (How does one edit comments?)

I'm sorry but I've looked through the Customization & Screenshots part but I can't seem to find any configurations. Am I blind? Can someone please give me a couple of links?

I have just installed 10.5.2 R1 on to my pc, booted the installation in safemode and everything went smoothly. Rebooted without dvd in drive and boots up just until it moves to the operating system and i get a weird screen with black and white artifacts.

Reboot in to safe mode and i get proper graphics... or so i thought.

Checking whats installed i noticed that the kexts for my graphics aren't loaded, the ethernet isn't working so i guess the same theory could be applied to that, as well as the sound!

I repaired the permissions on the drive but still get the same when i try to boot normally.

When i boot up in safe mode, each time i get an error stating "natit.kext was installed improperly and cannot be used. Please try reinstalling it"

^^I'm guessing this is a big clue as to whats wrong?

I checked all the appropriate options at the install for my hardware (sb600 kext/ac97 audio/2600xt).

I've also looked in to the extensions folder and they do appear to all be there (maybe because its safe mode?).

Little help would go a long way :)

Hardware:

AMD x64 Dual Core 3800+
HIS HD2600XT 512MB
2gb PC5400
MSI K9AGM2 (sb600 chipset)
250gb Hitachi Sata

Tried to chmod the Natit* directory after reading about on google a bit but it doesnt appear to make any difference, dont even get any error messages when i try it either :/

This is the command i found:

sudo su
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/Natit*
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/Natit*

try booting with -f -x

but if you get stuck in the graphics loop you need to follow the fix

Boot using "-s" flag then type ->

/sbin/mount -uw /

passwd root <- Type any password you want

touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

reboot

Ok thats managed to pickup my ATI card, however can only select 1024x768 and another kext failed when i booted up; ATY_Triakis.kext.

Also my ac97 audio isn't working even though i ticked the box.

Dammit this stuff is hard! lol.

Incidently, what does that -f switch do and do i have to boot up with the siwtches everytime? :(

the -f forces the extentions to load at boot. I use at every boot, you can add it to com.apple.Boot.plist which is the boot file at it will work auto. I use -f -v

You can try reinstalling ATY_Triakis.kext with kext helper it may have a permissions problem.

my ac97 audio always works perfect, and the driver is much better than windows, Check if the kext is installed, and install it manually if its not.

If you look you may be able to find a pkg install for it.

Good luck

Sp00n:

open Terminal and enter (or copy/paste) this:

sudo -s (password)

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions && chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions

diskutil repairpermissions /

after this delete /System/Library/Extensions.mkext and reboot. Now it should work.

I don't have extensions.mkext =/

Is it because im in safe mode?