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Mac OS X: Fail

January 28th, 2008 · Comments

OSX not booting

Steps to enjoying your first weekend with your new Hackintosh:

  1. Spend Friday & Saturday trying to get Kalyway 10.5.1 to install, only to be left with a blinking cursor in the place of a boot loader
  2. Give up, install Windows XP and Ubuntu Hardy
  3. Find Directions on installing Mac OS X Leopard on the Gigabyte P35-DS4 motherboard, that you have.
  4. Realize that you have to nuke your previous partitions because of a GUID/MBR conflict
  5. Install
  6. Fail

The above screen is as far as I managed to get with my machine. On the plus side, Windows XP and Ubuntu run great on the machine. On the negative side, Windows XP is as bad as it always was, and Adobe Lightroom fails to import photos under WINE.

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    my dream for future is to become a recognize software engineer..
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    Ubuntu had made its way out to its competitors, Ubuntu had popped out from nowhere pretty smooth and now it is almost used by lots of techno geeks.
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    Hi!

    In my experience, the blinking cursor (or hanging Apple screen) has to do with the disk partition set to inactive. You can use some kind of partition manager to activate it. Another common problem -- that of a constantly rebooting machine -- has to do with the BIOS setting called "execute disable bit." It's a memory protection setting that should be set to ON.

    Other tips:

    (1) on my Gigabyte P35 DS3L, having 4GB of ram caused the system to crash when doing certain tasks (like rendering a DVD with iDVD). Reconfiguring the placement of the RAM on the motherboard so that it runs in single-channel mode instead of dual-channel mode allowed for a stable system. You won't notice any speed difference so long as you are using a separate graphics card and not onboard graphics.

    (2) If the Finder (desktop environment) reboots when you do "About this Mac," then you may have to replace the file AppleSMBIOS.kext (it's really a folder) with a "hacked" version found in the forums. Of course, be sure to read up on how to properly replace a kext.

    Hope this helps. Good luck!
 

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