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jhooks320

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I have installed mavericks via unibeast USB and it requested that I format the drive to GUID before I could move forward with the install. I went on to install the kexts and the bootloader through multibeast, but when I try to boot it says " No boot device. Or device has failed." I installed a "distro" before with the MBR partition scheme and everything works perfect. Im trying to go with the tonymac method but can't figure it out.
 
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I have installed mavericks via unibeast USB and it requested that I format the drive to GUID before I could move forward with the install. I went on to install the kexts and the bootloader through multibeast, but when I try to boot it says " No boot device. Or device has failed." I installed a "distro" before with the MBR partition scheme and everything works perfect. Im trying to go with the tonymac method but can't figure it out.
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The GUID option is correct, however you need to select Format ==> Mac OS Extended ( Journaled )

If you do a clean install you have to go to Disk Utility during the install. It's in the top menu options ;)

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insanity83NL said:
The GUID option is correct, however you need to select Format ==> Mac OS Extended ( Journaled )

If you do a clean install you have to go to Disk Utility during the install. It's in the top menu options ;)

GL & HF
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I did choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled). But, I will retry and post my results. Thank you.

Also, I was wondering what mac model I should choose to get sleep working.
 
jhooks320 said:
I did choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled). But, I will retry and post my results. Thank you.

Also, I was wondering what mac model I should choose to get sleep working.
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Have you tried to look at your boot sequence in the bios? Looks to me it is not looking at the OS X drive first.
Try that first before reinstall.
 
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insanity83NL said:
Have you tried to look at your boot sequence in the bios? Looks to me it is not looking at the OS X drive first.
Try that first before reinstall.
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Yup, it's set to boot the Mac drive first. I even chose the drive manually and still doesn't work. It won't even let me boot the Unibeast drive. It will only let me boot an MBR partitioned drive. Maybe a glitch with the bios trying to boot GUID in legacy since it's a UEFI bios? I managed to get Mavericks installed and updated to 10.9.5 with everything except for power management. (Any thoughts on that by the way?) But, if possible I would rather use the TonyMac method.
 
Anyone?
 
Unplug all your drives except the one you want to install OSX to and let us know if it makes a difference.

good luck
 
No luck. It seems my bios just doesn't want anything to do with the GUID partition. Like I said my drive with the distro on MBR boots perfectly fine. Is there a way to use the unibeast method with MBR? What is the difference between using GUID vs MBR for hackintosh?
 
It seems to be working now. Thank you! Now how should I go about getting sleep to work? What Mac Model should I choose?
 
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