Hi there,
Sorry to hijack the thread a little, but,... do you say you installed OS X on a H97N board without mayor problems?
Could you get to the installer without using -x (safe boot). Did you boot the system with integrated graphics (IGPU) or a dedicated GPU? I (and others) are having difficulty installing OS X on this board using only the IGPU. If you could clarify some things for us etc. that would be great. For example your exact 'procedure' or boot flags you used etc.
You're right, you shouldn't hijack threads from other users, even just a little bit. You may find other people do it to you in the future. Its not great forum etiquette.
However, to get you thinking in the right direction for your issue, ponder this:
If I was starting a new install on that board I would go down the standard Unibeast/Multibeast method and start with the following reasonably safe boot flags (Remember boot flags can vary from one machine to another) :
-v GraphicsEnabler=No IGPEnabler=Yes IGPlatformID=0D220003
That assumes HD4600 but no discrete GPU of course. And because you have done your research in the forums, you will know that if you have a discrete GPU then the graphics flags become almost reversed. So there would be no need for the IGPlatformID and the IGPEnabler would be set to No instead of Yes; and so you would consider setting GraphicsEnabler to Yes if your GPU needed a little help or leave that set to No as well if you have a GPU that works OOB.
And if it didnt work I would look at adding either PCIRootUID=0 or PCIRootUID=1
If it failed on memory allocation errors/0xdeadbeef warnings, I would add the maxmem boot flag in the format of :
maxmem=xxxx
Where xxxx is equal to the capacity of a single stick of the ram installed on the machine i.e 4096 for 4Gb sticks, 8192 for 8Gb sticks, and so on.
I would also consider removing all but 2 or even 1 of the ram sticks, just for the purpose of installing.
And if it didnt work I would probably start a new thread of my own in the support section too.
Thats if I was doing it.
Yeah.
Just sayin.....