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Hi there.
I'm currently struggling to get iBoot to work so I can boot the Snow Leopard Install Disk.
Since I don't have an optical drive in my soon-to-be Hackintosh and no plans to buy one, I threw both (iBoot and SL Install Disc) on USB thumb drives.
When trying to boot the iBoot USB, it seems to do something... but then I only get a black screen with a grey blinking cursor in the upper left corner. No reaction to any input.
I specifically downloaded iBoot for Haswell processors as mentioned in the guide on this site since I'm using a Haswell (Haswell Refresh, 4790K) CPU so I don't think I got the "wrong" version. Also seen some success posts here with this processor and this mainboard, so my hardware should be OK.
I have the display connected directly to the mainboard with no PCIe card installed yet since I heard Intel integrated graphics would be the safest thing for the initial installation.
My UEFI says I'm already using AHCI mode, I skipped setting the boot priority since I can always manually choose what to boot from with F12...
Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong here, and how I can fix it?
I have a real Mac with 10.6.8 to prepare stuff, if needed, and also a working Win7 installation.
Does iBoot maybe only support booting from a "real" CD even on UEFI boards which can boot from USB? In that case I might be able to temporarily swap the ODD from my Mac Pro over to the Hackintosh.
Thanks in advance!
I'm currently struggling to get iBoot to work so I can boot the Snow Leopard Install Disk.
Since I don't have an optical drive in my soon-to-be Hackintosh and no plans to buy one, I threw both (iBoot and SL Install Disc) on USB thumb drives.
When trying to boot the iBoot USB, it seems to do something... but then I only get a black screen with a grey blinking cursor in the upper left corner. No reaction to any input.
I specifically downloaded iBoot for Haswell processors as mentioned in the guide on this site since I'm using a Haswell (Haswell Refresh, 4790K) CPU so I don't think I got the "wrong" version. Also seen some success posts here with this processor and this mainboard, so my hardware should be OK.
I have the display connected directly to the mainboard with no PCIe card installed yet since I heard Intel integrated graphics would be the safest thing for the initial installation.
My UEFI says I'm already using AHCI mode, I skipped setting the boot priority since I can always manually choose what to boot from with F12...
Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong here, and how I can fix it?
I have a real Mac with 10.6.8 to prepare stuff, if needed, and also a working Win7 installation.
Does iBoot maybe only support booting from a "real" CD even on UEFI boards which can boot from USB? In that case I might be able to temporarily swap the ODD from my Mac Pro over to the Hackintosh.
Thanks in advance!