MrTammikuu Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Hi all, I'm new to myHack, and to global Hackintosh world, I try to turn a Dell Precision T7400 into a Hackintosh : cpu : 2x Intell Xeon 2,66 Ghzram : 16 Go DDR2gpu : NVidia Quadro FX 4600 I already success installing OS X 10.9.2 on it with a GPT design but as i will also need Windows (yeah work stuff ...) I decided to turn my HD into a MBR fashion (512Go doesn't need GPT anyway). So I prepared my stick with myHack 3.3.1, using the mavericks app from the App store, I selected the MBR patch at the end of the process and reboot on it. I needed to flag chimera (chameleon, stolen and rebranded) (chameleon, stolen and rebranded) (chameleon, stolen and rebranded) with "GraphicsEnabler=No -f" to boot (otherwise usb keyboard/mouse are frozen) but still : I can boot it. There the trouble comes : after the language selection (tried both French and English) I select the HFS+ partition created with DiskUtil and the installer start ..... for 10 sec then it craches and tells me : OS X could not be installed on your computer. the installer can't prepare the disk for installation .... and propose me only one option : reboot So I suppose it's a problem with the MBR patch but I'm quite stuck here ... (I also tried the patch from : http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/145-mavericks-mbr-patch/ and http://www.osx86.net/files/file/3724-osinstallmbrosinstallmpkg-109x/ --> same problem) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTammikuu Posted March 18, 2014 Author Share Posted March 18, 2014 Ok my mistake, There is another similar topic few time before mine : https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/6298-install-failed-the-installer-cant-prepare-the-disk-for-installation/ obviously i'm not alone in this case and it confirms what I suspected -> the volatile MBR patch. I'll keep an eye on : http://myhack.sojugarden.com/guide/ Do you guys have any idea of the delay until the release of myHack 4.x.x ? (just asking, I have no idea of the improves for next version and the amount of work that it requires) And thanks again for your soft ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
npjohnson Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 It is from what I hear, a HUGE revamp, so it could take time, but for now, if you want to Win 8.1 supports GPT installs on all disks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTammikuu Posted March 20, 2014 Author Share Posted March 20, 2014 That's what I thought but using the USB method it doesn't work (Win8.1 pro on GPT throw an error just as myHack with MBR) .... NP, i'll continue to use my rMBP for a while and stuck my tower with Windows/Linux until myHack 4.x, Good luck to the dev ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTammikuu Posted March 20, 2014 Author Share Posted March 20, 2014 Just a last question, if I install OSX to a different HDD formatted with GPT, will I be able to clone/dd it on my first MBR drive in a way that allows me to boot on it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTammikuu Posted March 26, 2014 Author Share Posted March 26, 2014 Ok so as i success installing the OS, maybe i should close this topic (dont know if I can do this) and move to the post install section .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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