OK, I installed everything fine and the Mac OS x86 installation is on its own ATA hard drive with no other hard disks attached. The system begins booting properly and freezes on a point just after:

"Waiting for boot volume with UUID 6A.........etc"

the exact text it freezes on is as follows:

Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>
IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>

I've left it frozen at this for like an hour and a half and still no change.

Any help would be very greatly appreciated

AMD Athlon X2 4600 Dual Core Socket AM2
Asus M2NPV-VM
Corsair TwinXMS 1024Mb 667MHz
GeForce 6150 (integrated)
nForce 430
Maxtor IDE ATA 40GB hard drive
Samsung DVD/CD-RW combi drive

What installation iso did you use?

Right before you pressed the "Install" button, you should have pressed the "Customize" button. What install packages did you choose under Customize?

I used the jas 10.4.6 iso and installed AMD base packages and sse2 support for AMD because i heard the sse3 support for AMD doeen't really work that well.

Well I reinstalled and it now worked fine - as in booted into mac os x - twice and then when I went to boot into Mac os x for a third time i get:

IOATAController device blocking bus

it keeps repeating on the boot screen and won't boot

I've restarted loads of times but get the same message each time.

I have the exact same problem but I found that I can still boot in to safe mode. It seems to be completely random for me because sometimes it will boot up fine but others it won't...

I just Disable Usb legacy from my bios and it work.

disable the USB legacy and it should work? Cause thats the exact error That I have! I have reinstalled this 10.5.7 software 6 times!!! trying to figure out what my computer takes as far as software goes, but if its an issue with the bios I hope it works... can someone help me out? thanks guys


ACER 6530
AMD Athlon XP X2 2.0GHZ
AMD 780G board
ATI 3200 graphics card
3 gigs of pc2667mhz