installs but won't boot: Leo4all v3 + patch 10.5.3 by Jas

[georgem]

hi guys,

 

Apologies for opening yet another "installs, won't boot" topic, after spending two days in reading and googling. I have a Toshiba Satellite P10 (Pentium 4 SSE2, GeForce go-5100) and have so far tried Kalyway (endless reboots), JaS (same), a 10.4.6 image that installed fine, and now Leo4all v3 + patch 10.5.3 by JaS. I need Leopard.

 

I patched the V3 ISO just fine (it seems), and booted into Leopard installer. Repartitioned the laptop's internal drive (one partition, HFS Journalled, guid, not case-sensitive, just like on my macbook pro), erased it, labeled it, and installed the OS.

 

I selected kernel 9.2.0 sleep (this processor has no speedstep, and kernel 9.2.2 hangs up) and other than this I've kept the install pretty vanilla (ac97 codec, worked in 10.4.6, no graphics, no extra drivers).

 

I notice that if I boot from the harddrive the laptop reboots after loading a zillion kexts.

If I boot from the DVD and leave its bootloader to boot from the harddrive I get a screen -after- loading the kexts.

 

I've never been able to get past the "BSD Root: " line. The thing dies with no word of warning. Just sits there idling.

 

My steps included removing firewire kexts, also removing suspicious stuff, making sure no nvidia/ati/gma graphics kexts are loaded. Within a few tries I got up to various "Can't alloc class" messages, for AppleACPIEC, IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType05, and a few others, but never past the "BSD Root" line. I even went as far as to replace Extensions/ on the harddrive with the one on the DVD. (don't ask, didn't do much difference). Selecting an older ACPI layer didn't work either. There's very little in the BIOS setup to fiddle with but I've tried that too.

 

I know this is a fairly old computer, but it was able to boot and run OSX 10.4.6 just fine, although in VESA mode only. More so, it's able to run Leopard's graphic installer (compared to previous Kalyway and JaS). I am therefore very puzzled as something obviously goes wrong later in the process of installing.

 

I have tried forcing boot options -s, -v, -x, to no avail. Leopard simply does not complete its second setup phase from hard drive (after copying files from DVD). No logs (that I know of) are produced.

 

Please, pretty please, help me out with this. A clue would do. I can handle pretty advanced stuff so just shoot away.

 

Thanks!

 

 

specs:

 

Toshiba Satellite P10

P4 2.6 GHz HT (SSE2 Northwood), 200MHz FSB, 512k cache,

Intel i865P/i848P, Intel 82801EB ICH5, 1GB DDR 400,

Nvidia GeForce Go5100 32Mb, Toshiba HDD 25Gb (ATA)

 

 

diag:

 

Kernel 9.2.2 booting from harddrive, last lines before reboot:

EFI Enhanced bootloader build: ToH

Using SMBIOS table found at 0x000f6c00

Using ACPI RSDP revision 0 found at 0x000f6ca0

 

and

 

Kernel 9.2.0 sleep, AC97, ICH chipset driver, Old ACPI layer, deleted AppleACPIEC.kext.

Boot with DVD loader from harddrive.

Freezes and hangs at/after Couldn't alloc class "IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType05".

[georgem]

::bump:: noone?

[Tommy P]

i have the exact same problem, altho my pc is different, still same results, i have tryied it so many times to get the same result. and i cant seem to get nyoneone reply to my posts abouts it and its really bugging me that i cant do it. its so close i can smell the spots on my pc but its just being annoying.

[MacNutty]

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