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HELP: ML install prompts shutdown on MSI Z77MA G45...what'd I do wrong?

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Posting this here more for my benefit than anything but I think I found some answers to what I have going on here:

MSI Install

You will need to remove the GTX5770 while you attemp to install OSX
You may want to use a modded BIOS for this install - http://biosrepo.wordpress.com/msi/
Your Motherboard was the topic of a OSX install by Going Bald and he make a link that has a lot of the pictures of the BIOS settings.
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As You CPU has HD3000 this will be the GFX for SL while we Boot from the iBoot Ivy Bridge CD/

You will need to boot w the following switchs -v PCRootUID=0
 
kermit1219 said:
Can you please list your system configuration? That may help us help you ;)
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So, I just used that configuration I posted and it went to the installer...booyah. Will update everyone as I progress here and then also post my system configuration after.

I'm assuming that's some sort of signature on my profile, huh? Total newb here :-X
 
Yes its under your profile signature.. or you can just reply with the specs. Glad you got it working, I cannot say enough about this forum. Tremendous people that always help!

This is an awesome community!

Kermit1219
 
Ivy Bridged
Z77A-G45 |  i5 3570K |  GeForce GTX 650 Ti
kermit1219 said:
Yes its under your profile signature.. or you can just reply with the specs. Glad you got it working, I cannot say enough about this forum. Tremendous people that always help!

This is an awesome community!

Kermit1219
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Absolutely, everyone has been super helpful so far and appreciate all this ongoing input - so, I added my system configuration info and hopefully that shows up. I went through the Mountain Lion install process and at the end of that it showed a white screen with a grey box...paused for maybe 20 secodns and then restarted and showed me two icons of the TonyMacx86 unibeast install. Like an idiot I named the partition for the OS HDD the same thing as my install Unibeast HDD...the default Untitled1.

So, I tried clicking on one of these Untitled1s and it prompted me to reinstall the system. So, I tried the other and it did the same...weird.

I tried removing the Unibeast install HDD (it's just one of my old IDE hooked up to a USB harness) and then I coudln't get it to boot to the (supposedly) installed OS on the main HDD.

Any thoughts guys? I'm in the process of reinstalling the OS now to see if I can knock it back onto track.
 
I'm still working away on this one. I'm continuing to get that white screen and gray square freeze-out with about 4 minutes left on the OSX install screen.

I must be missing something in the BIOS setup here or the boot commands. Any thoughts are welcome!
 
Ivy Bridged
Z77A-G45 |  i5 3570K |  GeForce GTX 650 Ti
This is turning into a live update of my trial and error here, but I finally got the OSX installed. I think my mistakes before were simply not accurately labeling the boot drive vs the OS drive, after rebooting from the last white screen I was able to enter the typical setup details like country, time zone, etc by booting with "-v."

Now on to multibeast!
 
kermit1219 said:
I would recommend changing the name of that drive ;)

Glad you got this working!

-Kermit1219
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Yeah, temporarily...so if I accidnetally install RealTek drivers that I didn't mean to and the system kernel panics, how can I get out of that cycle in the boot so I can delete the drivers and re-install?
 
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