iBoot was far from painless forr me

I finally got OS X installed.
But not without 6 hours of messing around.

Specs are over there
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I only have 1 hard drive with Windows 7 installed, as per http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/11/ ... -snow.html

I tried all different iBoot versions, all burned to a CD RW, but all of them were text-only. Like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoXUz0pvPoI

While I was not using a retail dvd, I burned an image of retail dvd (used to have the dvd, then sold it - long story) to a 8GB USB drive, and installed Chameleon, and QOOPZ kernel as per http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/11/ ... etail.html

My bios was set to ahci, and hpet was 64 bit
To boot to the installer I had to use iBoot. The installer would run, say it failed, I'd restart, but when I went back to iBoot and instead tried to boot from the installed OS X, the computer would immediately go black and restart. Safe mode did nothing.

What I finally figured out to do was boot back to the installer, use terminal to copy DSDT, boot, mach_kernel, and Extra from the USB.

Finally, to boot to the installed OS X, i had make the computer boot to the USB (which had chameleon installed) and then from there select the installed OS X.

I'm glad I finally got it installed, but what made it so difficult for me?

I think the iBoot problem is a very interesting, I am certainly no authority on that. I have been going through these forums for a few days though (long story), and think that if you had read a little more, understood a little more, or just had read the correct instruction page you would have had less trouble. People who know more feel free to tell me I am wrong, but I think that was the only issue.

Tom

Only took you 6 hours? Some people after three months are still having problems installing.
At least you got it working.

the installer shouldn't fail with your i5. did you try iboot supported?

I'm fairly sure I used the nVidia iBoot...maybe that was the problem.

I'm definitely happy I got it working though, and I hope my post will be a bit helpful for others perhaps. Ah...the life of a hackintosher...

if you were to do it again, use iboot supported. it isn't really necessary to use nvidia with your setup + you get a vanilla kernel.

the life of a hackintosher should be as easy as it gets (with the help of iboot and multibeast!)