Yo,

Long time lurker, first time poster (well, technically it's my third, but the first two were eons ago).

I've recently hooked up an Asus p5b mainboard and I've read the wiki that suggests using a USB cdrom drive to install OS X, as the DVD won't boot natively on this board (for some obscure reason).

Other than a USB DVD drive (which isn't an option here) has anyone had any luck using any other method, is it possible to create a bootable image for a USB device that can then load up the ROM?

Any suggestions on 'alternative' install options would rock - I'm pondering using VMware to handle the bootstrap and initial install to a physical disk first, then booting natively.. sound like an option?

Suggest away.

no luck unfortunatly,

get a usb cdrom or a usb enclosure for your ide cd. that works 100%

Yeah, I'll score a 3.5" enclosure today - whip the cover apart and use that (temporarily) - I have a spare drive I'm thinking of setting up for the occasional sneaker-net runs where I need to move a few gb via USB 2.0, so no great loss - they're cheap now too.

Thanks.

Another options are:

1-get a SATA DVD Drive. Whatever works fine (see my signature)
2-get a PIONEER IDE DVD Drive. Some guys told that this trade mark works.

Hope this can help you.

I"m having problems booting after instal, and there's no hang up in -v that I can see before it goes the blue screen to login and never gets past..


ideas?


Hoping someone has a close system to mine and could tell me what options they used during instal (patches, vga, etc)
Maybe this could save me some hassle!

Thanks everyone, and good luck biggrin.gif



Computer Type ACPI x86-based PC
CPU Type DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, 2133 MHz (8 x 267)
Motherboard Name Asus P5B (3 PCI, 3 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Broadwater P965
System Memory 2048 MB (DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT (512 MB)
Audio Adapter Analog Devices AD1988 @ Intel 82801HB ICH8 - High Definition Audio Controller [B-0]
IDE Controller Intel® ICH8 2 port Serial ATA Storage Controller - 2825
IDE Controller Intel® ICH8 4 port Serial ATA Storage Controller - 2820
Disk Drive MAXTOR STM3320620AS ATA Device (320 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
Network Adapter Realtek RTL8168/8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0) (192.168.1.100)
USB1 Controller Intel 82801HB ICH8 - USB Universal Host Controller [B-0]