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Problem booting iATKOS S3 v2 on ASUS P5B


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Hello,

 

I have a MacBook Pro and wanted to install iATKOS on my home PC so that they could get along better, especially with file and printer sharing etc. :rolleyes:

 

I edited the boot order in bios to check atapi cd rom first (I have a pioneer dvd rw drive) but no luck. I tied entering boot selector by pressing F8, but only usb devices showed up in the list.

 

After that I tried various usb installation tutorials, including restoring iATKOS to usb stick, applying OSX86tools to make it bootable, applying Chameleon RC5 and finally partitioning the usb stick so that one partition contains Empire EFI and the other one iATKOS S3. I either got a blinking cursor line or I was asked to insert a correct bootable medium.

 

I tried doing this in ide and AHCI mode, I tried partitioning the usb stick as MBR and GPARTED.

 

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

 

My specs:

Procesor Intel Core 2 Duo E6420, 2133 MHz

Motherboard: Asus P5B (chipset Intel Broadwater P965, Intel 82801HB ICH8)

Audio: Analog Devices AD1988A

Video: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS

Ethernet: Realtek

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I had trouble getting my Pioneer DVR 216 SATA to boot the iAtkos DVD. The solution was surprisingly simple.

 

On my motherboard (GA-EP45-DS3R) I have a boot menu (F12). If I enter the menu and select the DVD too quickly, it fails. So I wait a few seconds and listen to the DVD spin up and seek (maybe 5 - 10 sec) then hit enter.

 

The important part is getting a delay, so use the boot menu to achieve this. If you change the boot order in bios it probably is too fast.

 

Hope this helps.

 

BWT my DVD goes completely offline after a few minutes of being in SL v10.6.4. Can't even open the tray until restart. Come to think of it, it may have something to do with energy saving - probably thinks it's a hard drive.

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Your advice makes sense considering drive speeds, but the problem is that CDROM is an option only in bios settings. When I press F8 (same function as F12 for your mobo) I only see USB devices and harddisks. I'm starting to think it's some sort of ATA configuration problem. I'm good at software usage and tweaking, but I'm a relative n00b to hardware configuration. I'd even suspect a faulty drive, but since I burnt a dvd 5 minutes ago, I guess it's working using Windows 7 x64.

 

Thanks!

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When I have the controller set to AHCI in bios, the (SATA) DVD gets listed separately as "Pioneer DVD" in the boot menu.

 

If the controller is set to IDE mode, then the "Pioneer DVD" disappears from the boot menu and I have to select CDROM, I've just tested this and it works.

 

Also I think CD and DVD's like to be master and not slave, especially for booting.

 

Hope this helps.

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All problems solved! I enabled Jmicron controller, waited for it to load after bios and then hit the boot selector key. After much trouble and reinstalling I have Snow Leopard fully working along with Win7 and using Acronis OS selector. I used both Intel and Jmicron sata drivers, no AHCI.

 

Now all I have to do is find out weather its safe to upgrade os to 10.6.4 :)

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