Comments on: myHack Installer 1.0 RC5 Released

By: Pete Roullete

Pete Roullete — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:21:09 +0000

Great Posts……

I saw this really good post today on……

By: Conti

Conti — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:32:33 +0000

Mike D: sounds like “still waiting for root device” are you sure your SATA is in AHCI mode and that your SATA devices are plugged into the first 2 SATA ports (SATA 0/1 or 1/2 depending on your motherboard manufacturer)?

Boot with -v flag from chameleon prompt to get more information if my suggestion does not work. Also – you might want to use myHack RC5.1 as it has a couple improvements over RC5.

By: Mike D

Mike D — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:56:20 +0000

Conti,

I used your Myhack installer 1.0 RC5.0 I’ve gotten to install my OSX 10.6 on my hard drive for the 1st time!!! I am really excited. Anyway, when I reboot back into the usb, run the bootloader, select the newly installed hard drive and try to boot that, I get the spinning gear under the “taking the iSuck out of iHack” and it never goes anywhere. What is this an indication of? My system is based this

Brand MSI
Model P45 Platinum

CPU Socket Type LGA 775
CPU Type Intel Core 2 Quad 9550
FSB 1600/1333MHz

Chipsets
North Bridge Intel P45
South Bridge Intel ICH10R

Memory
4 gigs memory

Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 4780 w/512mgs memory

PCI Express x1 2
PCI Slots 2
Storage Devices
PATA 1 x ATA100 2 Dev. Max
SATA 3Gb/s 8
SATA RAID 0/1/5/10

Onboard Audio
Audio Chipset Realtek ALC888
Audio Channels 8 Channels
Onboard LAN
LAN Chipset Realtek 8111C
Max LAN Speed 10/100/1000Mbps

Onboard USB
Onboard USB 4 x USB 2.0

As you can tell, I am a noob. Thanks for your effort!

Mike D

By: Conti

Conti — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:59:07 +0000

Matt: What kexts do you have in /Extra/Extensions , do you have a dsdt yet or is this a stock install? – If you installed voodooHDA or IOATAFamily during myHack setup try removing them and rebuilding kext caches with pfix. Also go into BIOS and completely disable PATA(IDE) & GSATA ports then double check that the SATA controller on your ICHx southbridge is running in AHCI mode. Let me know if that helps or changes anything…

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:29:19 +0000

Oops, I didn’t know there was more than one X58 GB motherboard. Mine is the GA-EX58-UD3R.

You were right, originally I had the hard drive connected to the GSATA port, so I connected it to the SATA port and reinstalled OS X through myHack. I’m still getting the exact same kernel panic, with the HD connected to the Intel southbridge, not the GSATA port.

By: Conti

Conti — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:45:32 +0000

Matt: Are you sure your SATA devices are attached to the ICH10 southbridge and not the jmicron or marvel controllers?

P.S. – In the future include the full gigabyte board model number there are now 2 “UDR3″ “X58″ Gigabyte boards (I Have GA-X58A-UD3R myself).

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:07:20 +0000

I’m getting this kernel panic after booting into SL through myHack RC5. Any ideas on what it means/how to fix it?
http://i.imgur.com/2pIud.jpg

CPU: Intel i7 920
Mobo: Gigabyte UD3R, Intel X58 chipset
Gfx card: GeForce 260
USB keyboard, mouse
4 GB RAM
Running Windows 7 in AHCI, dual booting through Easy BCD.

By: Conti

Conti — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:08:33 +0000

zacaj: I’d need more specifics than “Dell Dimension E520″ there are many different variations of a single “Dell” model. I would need to know what your chipset is, what your southbridge is, what your graphics card is, if your hard disks are PATA or SATA, etc… I should note however that if the IOATAFamily.kext is what is causing the kernel panic and you have no AHCI mode available in your bios the odds of successfully installing OS X are slim…

By: zacaj

zacaj — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:33 +0000

Im trying this on a Dell Dimension E520 (core 2), and either i dont install IOATAFamily.kext and when the installer boots it cant find my hard drives, or I do install it, and I get a kernal panic when I try to boot. Theres no option to switch to ACHI in my BIOS, what should I do?

By: Conti

Conti — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:24:19 +0000

zidanne: well if you tried GraphicsEnabler with pci root 1 & 0 (as described on the installer guide page) and that failed. Try NVEnabler. If that fails you will have to build a custom gfx string – which I personally only know how to do from Leopard (OS X 10.5). The 9800GT however should work fine in one of the above mentioned methods.