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Hello, I have just installed Mountain Lion 10.8.4 with the Olarila's USB image. My goal is to have a dual boot including Windows 7 and Mac OS X, so I followed this tutorial to do so: https://www.dropbox.com/s/djt18o0k8288yzp/Guide%20with%20Pictures.pdf Essentially, what the tutorial says and what I have done is this: 1. Boot from USB to Mac OS X installer. 2. Go to Disk Utilities and set 2 partition scheme: Mac OS X (HFS+ Journaled) Windows 7 (MS FAT) I also added a new MS FAT partition in order to store data, not another OS. So I selected a 3 partition scheme. 3. Turn off and install Windows 7 in the partition already created. 4. Install Windows 7 drivers (while I think that this is optional in this stage). 5. Turn off and boot the Mac OS X installer from the USB. 6. Install Mac OS X in the Mac OS X partition already created. 7. Run the already installed Mac OS X in the HD by using the bootloader that automatically starts with the USB thumb. 8. Download multishit and install all new drivers (but it doesn't install Chameleon from multishit). In this point, the guide says that in the next reboot you won't need to boot from the USB, since Chameleon will run from the HD and you will be able to select which OS to boot. To check it, I reboot my computer and Chameleon doesn't run, and when I say it doesn't run I don't mean it only appears for a little time: it just doesn't start. So the chain is: Turn On -> POST -> Windows 7, as Windows 7 loads just after the POST. Not Chameleon anywhere. Then, I think that a manual installation would be good so I boot Mac OS X from the USB thumb, download the latest Chameleon and installed it (in a very Windowish way: "next-next-next..", as I have seen in some tutorials). To check if it works, I reboot again and... no Chameleon at all: Turn On -> POST -> Windows 7 again. The same thing ocurrs with other versions of Chameleon (including the multishit version), Chimera and Clover. Also tried to install Chameleon on Windows and, of course, didn't work. I must say that, in the point 2 (partitions), the guide claims for a GUID scheme. I tried it with GUID and also from MBR, both from scratch, with the same results. Any idea? P.S: I post this here because artur_pt linked me here, I hope this is not wrong. Thanks!

Thanks, I am going to post this there.

Hello back! Solved it. The issue was that my BIOS had many options to boot from USB. The option I was selecting was USB-FDD, which worked with 10.8, but now I had to select USB-HDD to boot the USB and... since it is a flash drive and not an HDD, this is a weird thing. After this, I managed to install this version (and I did it without flags) and run multishit to install drivers and stuff. I must say it runs flawlessly, great great job However, I can't boot without using the usb loader. I have installed Chameleon 2.1 from multishit but it did nothing, any idea? Thanks! P.S: I am following this guide to have Multiboot with Windows 7: https://www.dropbox.com/s/djt18o0k8288yzp/Guide%20with%20Pictures.pdf In fact, I can boot any of the two OS' from the USB Chameleon loader so I shouldn't break this.

Hello back! I thought it would be better to install 10.8.4 instead of 10.8 and then upgrade, so I downloaded the usb image from this thread. Although I can boot the 10.8 image, I can't boot this new 10.8.4 image. I mean, the boot continues to the existing Windows installation right after POST. Tried this using Suse Image Writer, Win32 Disk Imager and UnetBootin. Any idea? Thanks. P.S: Everything is configured in the BIOS, as the 10.8 USB image boots properly.

Yeah! Finally working with this flags: -x -f GraphicsEnabler=No npci=0x2000 The last time I tried only the flag "-f". Go to install to see what happens. Thanks!!!

Removed and back to the "PCI Configuration Begin" message again. Facepalm I am going to try with this new kernel to see what happens. Thanks!

Chameleon v2.1svn r2003 Here is! http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8782/kdj8.jpg The screenshot is done with the arguments -x GraphicsEnabler=no npic=0x2000 Thanks!

Done, nanoseconds message again Thanks

Tried it, also npci=0x3000. Now I get "system uptime in nanoseconds". Thanks

Hello At the moment, I am using the default USB image so, if nullcpupowermanagement.kext is inside by default, yes I am using it. The integrated gpu is disabled. Also, now I am getting PCI Configuration Begin everytime I try. Now the nanoseconds message doesnt appear. I didnt change anything! Thanks

Hello Artur, thanks for answering. Here is my config: ACPI 2.0 support - Does not appear in my BIOS. ACPI APIC support - Does not appear in my BIOS. Execute Disable Bit (NX bit) - If it is the same as "No-Execute memory protect", then it is Enabled. HPET support (High Precision Event Timer) - Enabled. Enhanced Intel SpeedStep - Does not appear in my BIOS. Enhanced Halt State (C1E) - Does not appear in my BIOS. HPET mode: 64-bit - OK SATA mode: AHCI - OK Limit maximum CPUID: Disabled - OK I didn't change anything, that was also the config I was using to boot to the installation.

Hello! This is my first Hackintosh install and honestly, I need some help since I have been trying to install this for 3 days but I am having some problems that aren't allowing me to do it right. First of all, my computer: Intel i7 2600K Gigabyte GA-Z68P-DS3 Rev 1.0 BIOS F4 2 x G Skill F3-12800CL9-4GBXL MSI GeForce GT520 Essentially, the problem I am facing is the message "System uptime in nanoseconds: xxxxxxxxx". This happens while booting, before the installation starts. I have tried: - Adding the DSDT.aml of my motherboard to the extra folder. No success. - Deleting the graphic video kexts. This leads to a message that says "PCI Configuration Begin". - Adding some arguments (I don't remember each of them, they were several) like: -v -x PCIRootUID=0 npci=0x2000 GraphicsEnabler=No I have been reading a lot but I have no idea of what to do. Which way should I go? Thank you.