cringemaster Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 I have built a nice little hackintosh out of a (freely received) Intel i845 motherboard, an SSE2 Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz, and a recently traded for Nvidia FX 5200 AGP 128MB. Any version of Tiger boots fine, and I had amazing luck with xXx 10.4.11 and have been running that for a while with pretty much complete compatibility. But the real problem is I cannot boot Leopard. I have tried Leo4all 3 and Kalyway 10.5.2 and both installs get past some large text scrolling by quickly (looks like loading kexts) before rebooting to the bios screen. ToH 9a581 loads, but very very slowly. Anyone have any ideas? I'm really stuck on this one and neither Google or Insanelysearch have been able to turn anything up. I dont think its an SSE2 issue, as Leo4all and Kalyway are both listed as SSE2 capable. And before I had a video card 10.4.11 would load even using vesa, but leopard had the same results either way. Help please Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119839-cant-boot-leopard-installer-on-i845-mobo/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickhe Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 it's not recommended to run leo on a sse2 becouse it's more unstable more crashing and alot of kext wont work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119839-cant-boot-leopard-installer-on-i845-mobo/#findComment-848475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cringemaster Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 I cant believe that though. As far as i know, the patched SSE2 kernel has very good SSE3 emulation. Im gonna try iDeneb and see if that chameleon bootloader helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119839-cant-boot-leopard-installer-on-i845-mobo/#findComment-848858 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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