censor Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 have create a usbdongle with 10.6.3 with my hack concept, have add in bootpack for optiplex 745 to the dongle boot the 745 up and start Disk Utility and where is no hdd found only my usb is showing up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdamnit Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Make sure your hard drives are in AHCI mode in BIOS. Not doing this is a guaranteed way to get this error. If your BIOS doesn't support AHCI, you can find patched IOATAFamily kexts that enable standard IDE disks to be seen in the OS X installer. Just place it in the myHack /Extra folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
censor Posted January 5, 2013 Author Share Posted January 5, 2013 have dl the IOATAFamily kext and add to the extra folder in usb dongle, and its no diffrent it cant find the disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcginkel Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 I had to place the SATA support to legacy in the bios to get it working (with IOATAFamily kext). Other difference is that I installed 10.7. which form factor do you have ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcr Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I had to place the SATA support to legacy in the bios to get it working (with IOATAFamily kext).Other difference is that I installed 10.7. which form factor do you have ? Hi, I just solved this problem with the help of Herve the Administrator. I have an Optiplex 745 wiht a SATA hard drive. I used the EDP bootpack for the 745, plus MyHack, to build a USB install using 10.7.5 as the base. It was not recognizing the hard drive when booting from the USB stick. Herve suggested adding IOATAFamily.kext. Just adding it to Extra/Extensions folder is not sufficient, you add it to the bootpack Extra folder (not on the USB stick, somewhere on your hard drive), then you have to run MyHack and run Install Extra, point to the Extra folder on your hard drive that has all the bootpack extensions PLUS the IOATAFamily.kext, then apply to the USB stick. Just copying the kext into the Extensions folder on the USB stick is not enough, the installer needs to know about it and use it to repalce the Apple kext during install. That's whay MyHack does when you run Install Extra I got my copy of IOATAFamily.kext from the bootpack for the Latitude D630 (file name Dell_Latitude_D630-intel-lion.zip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted January 31, 2013 Administrators Share Posted January 31, 2013 If you simply add the kext to /Extra/Extensions folder of your installer, just run myFix on the media afterwards so that permissions & cache are properly rebuilt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipguy Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I have the SFF Optiplex 745 and I can't get it to see the HDD to install, tied myhack Lion and Mavricks, in both cases no HDD visible to install. I also added IOATAFamily.kext, and fixed perms, to E/E still no HDD on installer. Am i missing something ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted February 20, 2014 Administrators Share Posted February 20, 2014 You said you "fixed perms". What exactly did you do for that? The posts from mckginkel & mcr are quite explicit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipguy Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 You said you "fixed perms". What exactly did you do for that? The posts from mckginkel & mcr are quite explicit. i used myhack to "run myfix" as you stated above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipguy Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 so this is what i'm doing. using myHack to create an 10.7 installer to my USB when complete i then add "Dell_Optiplex_745-lion" extra's via myHack i then boot from the USB and i get stuck at the installer as it does not see my internal sata HDD. if I drop IOATAFamily.kext to E/E the installer kernal panic's and does not startup. (how am i supposed to do this CORRECTLY?) Am i doing something wrong ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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