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I appreciate the help and I can promise I have researched the hell out of my problems and have jsut tapped all remaining resources or personal knowledge and have hit a wall. I'll try to walk though the whole process and list all components to give as much info as possible to paint a clear picture of my situation.
A year ago I built my desktop to run Win 7 (not knowing building a mac was possible) and have been running the system no problem. I'll list all main components used on the bottom, but the jist of it is a SSD boot drive and a 2TB drive for all my files and application. I recently upgraded my SSD so I have two solid state drives and I wanted to have two separate boot drives with Mac OS 10.8 ML installed on the other. I didn't want to deal with any partitions because I wanted it to be as clean as possible with two fully operating operating systems, essentially two boot drives both of which could access the shared 2TB drive and the other boot drive if necessary. I even got MacDrive for the PC side and Paragon NTFS (installed on my laptop) for the Mac side, so being able to access the different drive formats has not been a problem.
The first thing I did was take the 2.5" older SSD and connected it to my laptop, I formatted it HFS+ with GUID, and installed 10.8 on it. Then I connected it back to the desktop PC, opened BIOS and attempted to boot from it, to no avail. It would get stuck at the "Verifying DMI pool..." screen forever. I figured it wouldn't that easy so I did some research and made made my own boot USB (8GB stick) and used the followed every step with the instuctions on http://www.ihackintosh.com/2012/07/how-to-install-os-x-mountain-lion-10-8-gm-on-pc-hackintosh/. But, I could never get it to boot from the USB.Next I tried the MyHack method found on http://myhack.sojugarden.com/guide/. Again followed every step to include BIOS settings. I even configured my windows partition with the drivers to be able to run with AHCI but was unable to get to boot as I kept getting the error:(continued in next post) -
"Verifying DMI Pool Data.........boot0: GPTboot0: testboot0: testboot0: doneboot1: error"I followed every youtube video and website I could find and understand such as or http://www.hackint0sh.org/installation-181/boot1-error-63998-3.htm. Unforunately most were years outdates and heard so many possible solutions and fiddling with terminal I got super confused and a little scared of my amatuer tinkering. I tried all below combinations in terminal that were supposed to fix itfdisk -e /dev/disk1fdisk -e /dev/rdisk1sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk1sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk1All resulted in only mere glimmers of success achieved through loads of repetition attempts. When i was able to progress to entering my password i would proceed with the following command promptsf 2writeexitThen I received a prompt to restart for it to take effect but it didn't seem to make any sense because it was a thumb drives and I am unable to boot from the windows prepped USB on my mac. Regardless i tried every attempt of when to remove the USB from my laptop before/after restarting my laptop. All attempts were followed by attempt to boot my desktop from the USB. Again to no avail or seemingly any progress of successful implementation.So I gave up on MyHack too...and found subsequently found my hopeful self at the Kakewalk website. I went through the whole process again and still nothing.I STILL KEEP GETTING THE "BOOT1: ERROR"(continued in next post)
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And in my compulsive flail of frustration and desperation I tried all of the following:Every possible BIOS configuration recommended by anyoneUnplugging every drive or USB except the Kakewalk Boot USB and the SSD I want to install ontoUsing Chimera 1.11.1 an Unpkg 4.5 to manually put the "boot1h" on the the root drive of the install USBSwitching the target instal strive to the old SATA ports on my boardScouring the internet for anyone else who had a similar problem and registering for almost every hackintosh related forumSo I am obviously frustrated and cant find out why everyone else is able to boot form the USB no problem!!!! If anyone has any idea how I might be able to fix this you would have my eternal gratitude. Thank you so much in advance!!
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As promised my components are ill copy paste form newegg.com haha:
OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX30GXXX 2.5" 30GB SATA II (target OSX install drive)
Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F120GBGT-BK 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (Current Win 7 boot drive)
Seagate Barracuda XT ST32000641AS 2TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (Main Storage drive)
GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor
MSI N460GTX CYCLONE 1GD5/OC GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5
CORSAIR XMS3 12GB (6 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
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Since I wasnt able to get Kakewalk past the boot1 error, i reverted back to the MyHack option updated the IOPCIFamily.kext to get past the hang at PCI Configuration
Not I get stuck at "ACPI:System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3"... i even tried all of these recommendationsacpi=0x2000acpi=0x3000cpus=1cpus=2GraphicsEnabler=noGraphicEnabler=Yes.....please....help.... -
there is a way to fix this
I've used this process to dorequres unibeast usb installer(tonymacx86.com)1.boot using unibeast usb
run disk utility and unmount osx installationlaunch terminal and excite the following command:dd if=/Volumes/"unibeast drive name"/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/disk0s2 -
i realise that people are frowning on tonys site but
there are some good tips to be foundthe above procedure is simple and easy..... -
the reason u r having this issue is these newer drives are "advanced Format" or 4k drives..
the bootloader won't work unless u use the above procedurethis also means u can use drives larger than 1gb for your install -
my builds
asus x58(sabertooth) i7-95016gigs ram2tb hd(osx 10.8)256gb ssd(win 7)geforce gtx 460ocmac g5 case usb aluminum mac keyboard and mac mousegigabyte h55n-usb3(1156) i3-5504gigs ram2tb hd(10.7.4)1tb hd(win 7)geforce gt 240mac sawtooth(g3)case mac kbd and mouse
