Help Needed for Skulltrail (D5400XS) and Vanilla Leopard

[digitalperformer]

Hello everyone.... I'm really stumped with this one. iAtkos DVD boots with Skulltrail D5400XS, able to get disk utility to partition 120G IDE drive (also same process with a SATA drive) to MBR, Darwin Boot passes, then leopard installation finishes completely without hiccups. F.Y.I System profiler identifies both quad core Harpertowns, RAM, and other devices on motherboard... looks good. After computer reboots BIOS does it's thing then searches for a bootable OS. This is where the {censored} hits the fan.... just reads as "No bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key". I tried messing with BIOS settings but with no positive end resultant. I tried gparted live CD trying to set bootflag instructed by iAtkos DVD help file... Still nothing. WTF??????? I'm really stumped at this... any suggestions?

 

Headache number two..

 

I tried another direction... Retail Leopard DVD. I own a Mac Pro tower along with other macs ... I followed instructions for GUID partition, EFI_v8 installation, Leopard Installed on SATA accessing osinstall.mpkg on Retail DVD (actions performed all my Mac Pro's Leopard OS), installation was really smooth and quick, I proceeded with the removing and adding of kext files with extension folder on newly created SATA Leopard install (Replaced AppleSMBios found in downloaded pc_efi_v80 folder, installed dsmos from another download, and removed AppleEFIRuntime from SATA installed Extension directory) basically followed http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=76404&st=0

Still same problem "No boot Disk" on PC.

 

I booted iAtkos DVD (on PC) for it's utilities to see what was up my vanilla installation SATA GUID disk. DiskUtility sees SATA GUID. I tried using "Startup Disk" to see if I could restart with the selected SATA GUID drive. Rebooted to the same problem "No boot disk"

 

One thing I noticed out of the ordinary. The iAtkos installed MBR IDE drive didn't show up on the "Startup Disk" list while the vanilla installed GUID SATA did.

 

 

Did I miss something with EFI process each time?

 

 

 

ARGGGGG... Could someone please help / guide to a solution... I'll try whatever you suggest.

 

I would really like to see Skulltrail run Leopard. I haven't seen any real attempts made on Skulltrail... especially Vanilla... Let's make this the first to boot.

 

Thank you all for your continued OSX86 support and contributions.

 

-DP

[rich73]

Hmm.....a Skulltrail is a modified Xeon platform....as is a Mac Pro....

 

Clone a disk from the mac pro and try to boot off it with vanilla switches? DON"T take the disk out of the mac pro, clone it to a new disk and put it in the skulltrail, so you don't hose your mac pro.

 

Maybe that's out of left field.

[teknojunkie]

but you need to EFI EMU Boot loader for it to boot maybe your drive isnt active maybe GUID doesnt work have you tried sticking the disk and letting it count down

[digitalperformer]

My attempts have been just been clean install from retail leopard with efi_v8 process. I think I know why I'm not booting... where is the boot loader?? pc_efi_v8's folder readme file mentions lilo and grub... both bootloaders. I believe the EFI process these forums discuss doesn't talk about bootloaders; is it assumed? I'm gonna use grub to try and boot leopards install partition.

 

 

Forget Grub!!!!

 

 

 

OKKKK I read andtech's try at leopard on skulltrail... they were wrong... I got it to finally booooootttttt. I booted latest ubuntu off cd... not installing. Used it's gparted to set flag to boot... Shut down... took out the CD... and IT WORKED..... I can't fricking believe it. Leopard on skulltrail is official!!!!!!!!!!!!! iAtkos 1.0i method with Ubuntu flag booting with gparted. Graphics are slamming... resolutions up to 2304X1728 with video card I put in for skulltrail board. No kext modding!!!!! I'm sorry... I will list all hardware I used for Skulltrail build and will prove proof (pictures and screenshots with shots of system profiler and hardware monitor) that this is not a shammmmmm!!I'm trying Vanilla install next....