Help me with hackintosh GIGABYTE GA-Z87N-WIFI OSX

[lmh1]

Motherboard:
GIGABYTE GA-Z87N-WIFI

OSX:
Dual windows 7 and OSX Mavericks

I have also 16 GB of ram and i3 4340 cpu with bios F5. I use intel GPU, because i read that drives with nvidia/ATI is much different to set up.

How do i set up Bios\UEFI and where you set up OSX to works with this motherboard? (Say witch iboot image do you use or witch Chameleon bootloader?)

 

[sze5003]

Motherboard:
GIGABYTE GA-Z87N-WIFI

OSX:
Dual windows 7 and OSX Mavericks

I have also 16 GB of ram and i3 4340 cpu with bios F5. I use intel GPU, because i read that drives with nvidia/ATI is much different to set up.

How do i set up Bios\UEFI and where you set up OSX to works with this motherboard? (Say witch iboot image do you use or witch Chameleon bootloader?)

You need to disable the bios efi security feature in your motherboard. I use chameleon standard.

 

[lmh1]

I have do that, i use now Windows 7 ultimate operating system with only 50 GB partition, should it be fine to install OSX on 450 GB partion with samsung 840 SSD?

I have secound 1TB harddrive with snow leopard, used with Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 but that HDD will not boot, with this computer, its only reboot but i get bootloader. So is it some more settings i do need to change?

 

[sze5003]

I have do that, i use now Windows 7 ultimate operating system with only 50 GB partition, should it be fine to install OSX on 450 GB partion with samsung 840 SSD?

I have secound 1TB harddrive with snow leopard, used with Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 but that HDD will not boot, with this computer, its only reboot but i get bootloader. So is it some more settings i do need to change?

Its most likely won't boot because of other components like cpu or other kexts. Depends if you use the proper boot flags. Try booting with GraphicsEnabler=No. Not sure if you are using myhack method or some other distro but you should use a retail osx disk to make a bootable usb using myhack.

40gb will be fine just make sure you format as hfs +

 

[lmh1]

GraphicsEnabler=No did not help, i use intel GPU.

Tryed -V But i did not get any errormessage "Some read files," but stop there on the boot on snow leopard.

I need to be sure, is the easy ways to install snowleopard then upgrade?
Because i can not boot OSX snowleopard.

Is it posible to backup or edit something here, maybe for get OSX to works or make backup of Mavericks images from Apps store?

 

[sze5003]

Usually if it won't boot it's hardware related. If -v won't give you error I'm not sure why you can't boot it.

Try booting into single user mode with -s then do this.

fsck fy
Mount -uw /
rm /System/Lubrary/Extensions/AppleIntelCPU* /

That moves the Intel power management kexts and has helped me boot when I was having issues.

 

[Zaap]

That board works well for Hackintosh- the mini-Mac I set up using it last November still plugging away strong. http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=35784636&postcount=376

If you're serious about running OSX reliably on it I would:

1. Use Unibeast/multibeast from tomymacx86. Follow a proper guide there for that mobo/gpu and for how to set the BIOS.and what settings to choose in multibeast.

2. Ditch Snow Leopard. At best, if you don't have access to another Mac or hack, use it only to set up unibeast/multibeast and download Mavericks. (That is if its even worth the effort setting up SL just for that.) Do a proper install of Mavericks.

SL is way too old for that hardware, unless you just enjoy headaches.

 

[lmh1]

After i tryed to enter:

fsck fy
Mount -uw /
rm /System/Lubrary/Extensions/AppleIntelCPU*

I get:

I guess that Chameleon did not support intel grapicard well or something other with HDMI port give a error.

 

[sze5003]

Looks like a kernel panic with the graphics. That command I gave you is for the Intel processor power management section , some pc will not boot with those kexts in the extensions folder.

At the first screen you have there you need to boot with -s. That's single user mode. Single user mode is just command line booting no boot splash screen.

 

[lmh1]

sorry i do not have other mac or PC With osx, after i tryed to Upgrade to lion as you see it get my hdd not possibility to boot osx.
Is is some ways to get osx? Why is iboot not longer supporter after snowleopard? It do it more difcult to boot osx.

booting With -s did not Help computer just get to Black screen after some files is readed and reboot computer.

 

[sze5003]

I'm not sure what else to reccomend other than use a seperate hard drive for osx and use the latest edition of the os with multibeast.

 

[vailr]

Definitely keep OSX on a separate physical drive than the one Windows is installed on.
There's a Niresh 10.9.0 distro that may offer some better ease of installation.

 

[sze5003]

Definitely keep OSX on a separate physical drive than the one Windows is installed on.
There's a Niresh 10.9.0 distro that may offer some better ease of installation.

Yea I have a third ssd I got for cheap that I run osx on. I would not use snow leopard though.

 

[lmh1]

Tryed that, but its did not help i get: Snowleopard boot error:


AHCI is turned on, tryed Haswell iboot but it did not help, tryed my old motherboard but its give same errormessage, do you think OSX disc is corrupted or damaged?
I need help, am not sure that i should offer much time of that OSX shit again.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I am surprised you are asking all of this on Anandtech forums and not the tonymacx86 forums. I am sure this motherboard was successfully used by several forum members. In fact, I almost bought this board for a Hackintosh for the wife to use in addition to her iMac.

 

[Zaap]

This sort of thing makes me realize Apple's genuis in ditching disc-based install media. They've practically made it mandatory to already own or have access to a Mac, in order to create a Hackintosh for the first time. (Of course, I realize that wasn't their main goal in ditching discs, it's just for them a nice side-effect.)

I'd stop beating my head agains the wall with SnowLeo and look into Vailr's suggestion, or just find a way to create the proper USB Mavericks installer on an existing Mac or Hackintosh. To me it's not worth days and days of my time in attempt to bypass a half hour of doing things the right way- but then, maybe that's just me.

 

[sze5003]

You need a retail copy of osx, doesn't matter which one. I used to have a MacBook pro so when I sold it I kept the osx disk. I was able to make a bootable usb by installing it on a virtual machine and then using myhack and multibeast.

I did ask around about the same type of boot errors on tonymac86 and they banned my account thinking I was installing it illegally because I had asked about what the issue would be that it would not boot properly on my hardware. It turns out I needed to use the graphics flag since I have an amd card.

I hear now that the new Macs don't come with a disk anymore. They have an internet recovery which will load the os and you can wipe your drive there too to install fresh. You can't even boot from a usb that has a Mac image on them anymore because of their efi bios setup.

 

[Zaap]

You need a retail copy of osx, doesn't matter which one.

Of course it matters which one, since the last retail OSX on disc that's even remotely relevant is Snow Leopard. Its five years old now, so trying to install an OS that old on brand new hardware is a bit of a stretch.

I'm guessing you may have been banned at tonymac for misunderstanding a few key things. First: if you were talking about using a MacBook install disc, that's not a legit retail copy. There's no discussion at TM of non-retail installs.

If you're talking about a system the vintage of your sig system, then sure SL ran fine on sandybridge hardware. Haswell is a different story.

You can't even boot from a usb that has a Mac image on them anymore because of their efi bios setup.

Not true.

 

[sze5003]

Of course it matters which one, since the last retail OSX on disc that's even remotely relevant is Snow Leopard. Its five years old now, so trying to install an OS that old on brand new hardware is a bit of a stretch.

I'm guessing you may have been banned at tonymac for misunderstanding a few key things. First: if you were talking about using a MacBook install disc, that's not a legit retail copy. There's no discussion at TM of non-retail installs.

If you're talking about a system the vintage of your sig system, then sure SL ran fine on sandybridge hardware. Haswell is a different story.



Not true.

Well I'm sure you can get a retail copy somewhere on eBay. I wasn't sure that a osx disc that came with my Mac and said operating system on it was not allowed. I currently am running osx on a third ssd in this pc.

I figure that while you could find a snow leopard disk, it would be easier to get a newer one.

I have mavericks on a usb stick now and when my friend wanted to boot it on his MacBook to use disk utility for formatting, it would not boot from that usb, not sure why. He found his install disk a few days later so it wasn't a big deal.

I kind of wish I didn't sell my MacBook pro. I've been thinking of picking up a used one and upgrading it. I feel like osx is a lot better to use on a laptop than a desktop but performance is fine so far for me.

 

[lmh1]

I did ask around about the same type of boot errors on tonymac86 and they banned my account thinking I was installing it illegally because I had asked about what the issue would be that it would not boot properly on my hardware.

The same happed with me, that is reason that i did not use tonymac86 so much. So i have hoped to somone can make or sell or give guide for to make a completed OSX disc for PC, without need for Snowleopard or some OSX at beginning.

I could buy a mac mini, but reason i did not, is it very old.
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/01/22/new-mac-mini-february/

But this is little old (Wednesday January 22, 2014 6:38 am) rumors.
I could not find that mac mini will have i7-4700MQ or i7-4750HQ that i guess is fast enough to me and at least 8 GB of ram.But i guest that apple EFI bios is very disappointing compared with Gigabyte 3dbios and UEFI. The only things that is good on apple is OS X Internet Recovery but that did not tell how long its will take, and give much information about recovery, linux give much better information about netinstall, but i guess it is a reason its did now show where OSX be downloaded from.

 

[sze5003]

The same happed with me, that is reason that i did not use tonymac86 so much. So i have hoped to somone can make or sell or give guide for to make a completed OSX disc for PC, without need for Snowleopard or some OSX at beginning.

I could buy a mac mini, but reason i did not, is it very old.
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/01/22/new-mac-mini-february/

But this is little old (Wednesday January 22, 2014 6:38 am) rumors.
I could not find that mac mini will have i7-4700MQ or i7-4750HQ that i guess is fast enough to me and at least 8 GB of ram.But i guest that apple EFI bios is very disappointing compared with Gigabyte 3dbios and UEFI. The only things that is good on apple is OS X Internet Recovery but that did not tell how long its will take, and give much information about recovery, linux give much better information about netinstall, but i guess it is a reason its did now show where OSX be downloaded from.

Get on eBay and buy a retail osx disc. Look for a mountain lion or maverick disk. They are available or just order one from Apple for full price. They aren't that expensive I believe. Then you would need to create an iso of the disk and install it on a virtual machine. Afterwards you could make a bootable usb.