Houston, we have liftoff

After managing to kill my partition table and render my hard disk useless (only temporarily, thanks to Hiren's Boot CD, Windows Vista's DVD rescue features and the most recent Ubuntu Live CD with GParted installed), I finally managed to install OSX on my leg warmer that I dare to call my PC. Finally!Now, the steps taken to make everything work are not very hard, nor plentiful, but seeing that every PC has it's own soft spot, it can take a while to figure out what's wrong. As for me, here's what I did:

• Replaced the installed kexts for "AppleVIAATA" with the ones from the Kalyway Install DVD (fixes the "waiting for root device" problem) 
• Replaced the installed kexts for "IOATAFamily.kext" and "AppleACPIPlatform.kext" with the ones from the Kalyway Install DVD (fixes a kernel panic and the "using xxxx buffer headers..." lock up, respectively)
• Removed all NVidia NVInject or any similar kexts because they killed my soul until I figured out that they were the ones that kept my MacOS from booting. Installed the Punk92 NVidia patch, and everything works fine (native resolution + Quartz extreme).
• Used EasyBCD in Windows Vista to setup a triple boot between MacOS X, Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux. (be prepared to have loads of rescue CD's in handy before attempting to dual/triple/xxxple boots)

And that's about it. Remember to go from the very bottom - using safe mode with "-x", verbose mode with "-v" (so you can see any error that hits you), "cpus=1" if you are having trouble using your dual core processor or you are experiencing reboots during the boot process and eventually "-s" to see if you can boot in single user mode. Be sure to hit "-f" regularly to make sure all extensions are loaded. Oh, and hanging out on the insanelymac.com forums is a must. You will also find much needed files over there! And to complete the deal, here's a pair of screenshots: 

1 comment March 17th, 2008