Toaster777 Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Hi guys, I've tried several "distros" of Leopard so far, but have had no luck. I've come closest with Leo4AllV3 10.5.2. I have 2 hard drives and I formatted the second drive as an OS X drive. I was able to install it using the CPUS=1 flag, but when I try to boot from it, the bootloader hangs. It hangs at the following point "MAC Framework successfully initialized using 15728 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers" Any thoughts on how I can rectifiy this? I've previously tried installing iATKOS 1.0ir2, Kalyway 10.5.2, and Leo4Allv2. This is the only time I was able to successfuly complete the installation process. Would Leo4Allv3 be the best build for my system? I plan to dual boot with Vista Home, but I'll use two seperate hard drives rather than partitioning a single drive for simplicity. Are there certain options I should or should not select during install that might help? I have a HP Pavilion M9150f with the following specs: Processor: Core 2 Quad Q6600 (K) 2.4 GHz (95W) 1066 MHz front side bus Socket 775 Chipset: Intel G33 Express Motherboard: Manufacturer: Asus Motherboard Name: IPIBL-LBHP/Compaq motherboard name: Benicia-GL8E Memory: 3GB PC-5300 667MHz Hard Drive: 720 GB (2 x 360) SATA 3G (3.0 Gb/sec) Optical Drive 1: 16x Dual Layer DVD+/- RW with LightScribe Optical Drive 2: 2.4x HD DVD-ROM drive Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g 256MB DDR2 nVidia GeForce 8500GT Hauppage TV tuner card with FM tuner Integrated High Definition Audio: Realtek ALC 888S chipset Integrated 10/100/1000 Base-T networking interface 15-In-One Memory Card Reader Firewire and USB 2.0 ports HP wireless USB keyboard and Mouse USB infrared remote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toaster777 Posted May 3, 2008 Author Share Posted May 3, 2008 Bump. Still need some advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie11c Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 Are you booting with cpus=1 also? Did you remove firewire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toaster777 Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 I tried booting with cpus=1, but that didn't help. I haven't tried removing firewire though. How does one do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Zhou Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 When you install, check the "old ACPIPlatform" option. If you already have it installed use Linux or MacDrive and just get a copy of AppleACPIPlatform.kext off of a JaS 10.4.8 release or extract it from the package on the Leo4All disk. Also, try to keep as much default settings as possible (use the default kernel). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
failurbydesign Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 My issue is im getting stuck at waiting for root device..did you have this issue Motherboard specs http://support.gateway.com/s/MOTHERBD/Inte...06194Rsp2.shtml Q6600, 8500gt, 4gb pc5300 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomnimac Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 Make sure to use SATA dvd drive to get passed root device error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toaster777 Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 Hi guys, Thanks for the advice. Still no luck though. I have my drive formatted as a MBR drive, tried installing using the vanilla 9.2.2 install with Old ACPI platform and used the remove firewire kext as well. Again, the install went normally, but when trying to boot from the drive it fails unless I use cpus=1. If I do that, it gets a little bit further, it gets to a point where it says Darwin kernel 9.2.2 and then just a white cursor and it quits loading. Any other thoughts? I changed my BIOS settings for the drives to AHCI as well, in case you're wondering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
failurbydesign Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 Whats AHCI, i tried this but windows wouldnt boot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattrb Posted May 5, 2008 Share Posted May 5, 2008 failurbydesign, ahci can work with windows easily if you search on google "enable ahci mode after installing windows" OR Reinstall windows with AHCI on, takes longer though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toaster777 Posted May 5, 2008 Author Share Posted May 5, 2008 Anyone have any other advice for me? I'd love to get this working. I've seen in the wiki others with similar hardware have gotten this to work. There must be something I'm missing. Is Tiger more likely to work? I can try that to see if there's any difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toaster777 Posted May 5, 2008 Author Share Posted May 5, 2008 Bump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toaster777 Posted May 7, 2008 Author Share Posted May 7, 2008 bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kstephens98 Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 Bump I have same specs as Toaster777 Help please. Is our motherboard just not compatible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiltyj Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 Toaster, did you ever solve this issue (seems like from other posts, you eventually got it at least booting)? I have the same specs, and am having the same problem -- getting stuck at "MAC Framework successfully initialized, using 2621 buffer headers and 2621 cluster IO buffer headers". Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turgo Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 My issue is im getting stuck at waiting for root device..did you have this issue Motherboard specs http://support.gateway.com/s/MOTHERBD/Inte...06194Rsp2.shtml Q6600, 8500gt, 4gb pc5300 I could be wrong, but isn't that problem usually associated with sata drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hovo Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Bump. I have the same Mobo HP M9100T. Someone Help me I cant even get to Installer Tryed iAtkos 10.5.4, Kalyway 10.5.2. Leo4Allv3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekko Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 I have a hp m8430f and the only way i was able to install it was with the kalyway 10.5.1 disk using the cpus=1 command. Oh and when your installing it you have to select the sse3 option. so far i have had to use the cpus=1 command everytime i wanna boot up to osx and i'm having trouble getting my ethernet card working. anyone have any ideas on that? oh and my comp would freeze on reboot everytime untill i removed my graphics card...i have the 8500gt w/ 512mb. oh for sound i never figured out which one of the options would work i just checked them all and apartly one them worked. HP m8430f Q6600 Core 2 Duo Quad 2.4ghz 4gigs ram Geforece 8500gt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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