millim Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Hi, I need help on the install of Leopard on Vaio PCG-7A1M. Started on -- for testing -- if it is possible on this old rig. But, it fails directly on boot of install DVD. The components are: Intel M740 @ 1.7 GHz Intel M915 ICH 6 chipset nVidia Go 6200 Wireless Intel 2200BG Phoenix BIOS R0044J1 I am really a rookie on that all, so I started to read some posts related to my hardware. It seems to me that only Leopard (10.5) my run on that M740 processor due to missing SSE3 support and being a core sole. So a distro will be used with a voodoo kernel was my conclusion. So I gave iPC 10.5 PPP5 final untouched version a try without success. It failed directly after boot of the DVD with a "Unable to find drive platform: \"ACPI\".....IOPlatformExpert.cpp:# kernel panic I tried all the available boot options -v -f -x acpi=off ... and many more without success. The laptop does not have any BIOS settings about AHCI nor RAID nor SATA. It is an ICH6 with only supports IDE PATA drives. Does this rig need a special mod? Br Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marugby123 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Moving to proper section: notebooks. Marugby123 InsanelyMac Netbook Moderator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millim Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 ... one should check MD5 checksum first! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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