CPraider Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Hello insane mackers I have recently built a new PC, I have installed XP already on one partition (split a 500 in half) and intend to install Leopard on the other. I have burned the iATKOS v4 onto DVD at 4x... twice. I boot up the DVD, but it stays on the Grey apple screen, with the spinning wheel, it doesn't even begin any installation. I would really love some help solving this issue. Or some direction. My current build is: MB: Asus P5QL-E CPU: Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33ghz Ram: 2gb 800mhz SATA for both 500gb HDD and DVD I have tried partitioning the spare partition as both unallocated and FAT32 (thats the only related help I could find on here) Cheers team CP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poco Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Boot with -v and see where it hangs. At the prompt F8 then enter -v. iPoco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPraider Posted August 28, 2008 Author Share Posted August 28, 2008 Boot with -v and see where it hangs. At the prompt F8 then enter -v.iPoco Thanks for the reply. I tried the -v i will try post a photo of it. But the last section where it hangs is: "MAC Framework successfully initialized using 10485 buffer headers and 40896 cluster IO buffer header Extension "com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatfromPlugin" has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components use only one style" Hope this makes sense to someone, hehe. I can't see any other errors or such (if thats what im looking for) Cheers EDIT: Here's a photo of the hang. http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a393/cpripper/CPraider.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPraider Posted August 29, 2008 Author Share Posted August 29, 2008 I attached a screenshot / photo in the post above. If anyone can help me with this issue, I will be forever grateful Thanks CP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syam osx86 Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 I think the prob about you network card driver not support, if you using non build in network card, try to take out the network card then install back. I'm not 100% sure... but just to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPraider Posted August 29, 2008 Author Share Posted August 29, 2008 I think the prob about you network card driver not support, if you using non build in network card, try to take out the network card then install back. I'm not 100% sure... but just to help. Thanks, but I don't have a network card, only what is running off the motherboard. Do you think that it's not picking up the network card ? or just doesn't support it ? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPraider Posted August 29, 2008 Author Share Posted August 29, 2008 Been trawling through the forums, and found the following topic which seems to be the closest relating to my problem. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...77467&st=20 Although im still stuck, 2 questions: 1: Has anyone had the same problem relating to the "com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatfromPlugin" 1a: And if they fixed it, how ? 2: In the provided link, how does one place the .kext files onto the original iso (if this is the fix) I'm fairly clueless as to where to go on this one. Cheers team. CP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabla Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 I have the same problem CPraider, although i could succesfully install iDeneb 10.5.4... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPraider Posted August 31, 2008 Author Share Posted August 31, 2008 I have the same problem CPraider, although i could succesfully install iDeneb 10.5.4... iDeneb, is that just another patched OSX ? I havn't heard of it before. I'm hoping there is a fix for my problem before having to download another version Im sure that others have a similar problem too. I've seen posts with similar problems but the ones that have 'fixes' are for the people that experience this AFTER the installation. Which I don't even get to. Cheers. CP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sony Vaio Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 CPraider, I have the exact same problem with my Asus G1S laptop, which has been confirmed as working by many users. Also, my system hangs with Kalyway 10.5.2 as well and will not enter the installation stage despite using "cpus=1" at the Darwin loader. :censored2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jskandhari_ULV_User Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 Don't know whether i am of help or not by now you must have learned all the -v -x -f stuff on every boot try update -v or update -f or update -v -f since it is a DVD so i cannot say % but most of the time update just makes the red light green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPraider Posted September 1, 2008 Author Share Posted September 1, 2008 Hey, cheers for the reply. Sadly none of those worked. tried and tried. no results. on one of them it got a little further on the boot up though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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