Hi,
first, my setup: GA-Z97N-WIFI, Crucial Ballistix Sport 16 GB DDR3, i7-4770S, Corsair CS550M, Seagate 3TB SATA HDD ST3000DM001
And now... a problem that I think nobody had yet on the whole 24 pages
I installed MacOS but thought I did something wrong with Multibeast kexts as it wouldn't start without -x PCIRootUID=1 every time. So I decided to redo it. Here I encountered a problem: Disk Utility from USB stick won't repartition my drive. I can only reformat the main partition. diskutil list tells me there are other partitions on the drive that I am kind of scared to touch. So leaving the disk not formatter properly, I went through the install, all went smooth, then at the end restarted into Unibeast, which... only shows me the USB stick. Not the new Mac OS install. When I press space, I can enter parameters, but only for the USB, the Seagate still won't show up. And if I allow the USB stick to boot, it boots back into installer.
I did the changes in BIOS as listed in OP. Then tried to change things back and forth. Nothing helped. But I know it IS possible to install Mavericks seeing as I did it once, even if it had no sound and only ran in safe mode. I guess the question is:
1. Is it a very obvious BIOS setting I am missing? (Assuming I did Optimised Defaults > changes by Stork from OP)
2. Is there a way to format a drive safely so the install works correctly if Disk Utility won't do it? (Terminal commands...?)
Thanks a lot for any response, I almost drove myself crazy today.
EDIT: Solved in the most counter-intuitive way:
1. Fight with the HDD in Disk Utility and Terminal another few hours, unmounting and erasing things randomly, only to fail again and again
2. Mount your 3TB HDD in external case that does NOT support drives over 2 TB (this is important)
3. Marvel at the wonder of Disk Utility calling your disk "IOMEGA 800 GB"
4. Erase that baby and create single 800 GB partition
5. Move it back into your Hackintosh case and enjoy the freedom that comes with ability to partition it correctly in Disk Utility
Oh, technology, how I love thee.