Trouble installing OS X on new build (gigabyte p35)

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I read through the two P35 topics below, couldn't really get an answer that worked.

 

My specs are in my sig. I'm trying to install OS X on my second hard drive (Western Digital SE16). Vista Ultimate is installed on my first hdd (seagate).

 

When the DVD boots up and I press F8, the only thing I can select is:

 

hd(31,1): uphuck 10.4.9 Install DVD v1.4i

 

after it boots, I go into disk utility. The only two disks that show are my DVD drive and my 320GB seagate drive (where windows is installed):

 

128gb Seagate blah blah blah

-Winblows <---- That's the name of my C drive

 

uphuck 10.4.9 Install DVD v1.4i

 

Obviously, my seagate drive isn't 128gb. My second drive isn't even showing up (that's where I made the 10gb partition for Mac OS X). One of the posts in one of the P35 threads said to set both of my SATA ports as AHCI in the BIOS and then to plug my HDDs in the GSATA ports on my board (they are purple. they aren't controlled by ICH9R but rather gigabyte's control chip). nothing changed.

 

this is really stumping me. I've had a good bit of experience with OSx86 now. It took me awhile to get it working on my old dell 4600, and when i got it working I still didn't have QE/CI. That took me a few weeks to get working with my 9600xt but I finally got it. I thought my new build would be able to install easily. This has been troubling me for a bit

 

thanks in advance.

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i found an extra IDE HDD lying around, so I plugged it into my IDE port (only IDE device in my computer). Still doesn't work.

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so no one knows what to do? :\

 

I guess i'll just wait until leopard

[goofy]

You have to disable ahci and native mode, also set GSATA to IDE in Bios.

Then install Uphuck DVD, after install, before first boot set everything back to AHCI Native Mode enabled and Jmicron to AHCI.

[pags]

thanks for replying.

 

native mode and AHCI are disabled by default. tried it again anyways, still nothing. now my hdd won't show up as 128gb anymore. the only thing that shows up in disk utility is my DVD drive.

 

i'm just gonna wait until leopard. i'll be busy with school soon anyways.

[goofy]

you have to switch the sata cable to the purple port for installation, and disable all ahci stuff, afterwards you change back to yellow, then enable all the AHCI stuff again.

Hope this helps

i have a DS4

[pags]

I'm trying to install it on my second HDD. Should I plug my second hard drive into the first purple port and leave my primary hard drive in the yellow, or what?

 

I've already tried plugging them both into the purple with ahci enabled, disabled, and whatever. They never show up in disk utility. Sometimes I get a kernel error because the DVD drive is sata and it doesn't like it when AHCI is enabled for it (i'd enable it for the jmicron sata chip too).

 

this is all too much plugging and unplugging for me. too inconvenient. this is a new build so i don't want to mess anything up. a few days ago when i was messing with my old 10.4.8 dvd, I could have sworn my mobo short circuited. it wouldn't turn on for a good half hour, but then magically started up later when i pressed the button. so i'm just going to wait.

 

thanks

[lom]

You must use External box Setup Mac OSX 10.4.9 V1.4i DVD

[goofy]

did you format your second harddrive as Fat32 before try to install over the purple port with all ahci stuff off, diskutil only recognizes Fat32 or HTFS (MAC format)?

I had no problems this way,but yo are right it is a bit complicated, but to plug unplug a sata connector is not that big problem.

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i tried Fat32 originally because that's what worked for me last time. Every other time I had it formatted as HTFS (id=af in diskpart).

 

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maybe there will be added support for new chipsets in official leopard hackintosh. P35, G33, X38!