DJNoName Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 Hi all, I have the following hardware and want to install OSX from my original 10.5 DVD (Retail): Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 BIOS: Downgrade to Version 8 CPU: Intel Pentium D830 (DualCore 2x 3GHz) RAM: 2 x 2 GB 800 MHz Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce 7600 GT Drives: Samsung 250 GB SATA, LG DVD SATA I changed the BIOS-Settings to AHCI, ... the settings I found on this forum. I tested the GENERIC.iso, the GA-P35-DS4.iso, and others but all the same problem: The pc boots up, Darwin promp cames, I choose the dvd-drive and after that the screen only shows the apple with the grey background and nothing happens. If I start the osx installation with -v I see the loading of the kext's and after that a black screen. I installed kalway 10.5 for testing, and this works great. But I want to install from retail. Here you can find some screenshots of my bios settings. Thanks for your help! Best regards Dominik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninetto Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 How many Hard drives do you have? Are they already formatted? How have you formatted them? regards, ninetto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJNoName Posted September 24, 2008 Author Share Posted September 24, 2008 Hi, I only have one Harddrive on SATA with one Partition (formatted with GUID and Mac OS Extented FS). At this time, Kalway 10.5.1 is installed on it. Best regards Dominik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphonse Mc Clouds Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 You can try to use my DFE-132 usb http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=127828 justonlyreplace your file with INITRD.IMG of your I think it work ds4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJNoName Posted September 25, 2008 Author Share Posted September 25, 2008 Hi all, the problem was the CPU - i put in a Intel C2D 2,5GHz for 73 Euros and now the installation works, system boots correctly from an boot312-v2-cd. My OSX is now up and I want to update to 10.5.5, yeaah! But I only have one question: I wont' modify my hdd btw. osx-system with different kext's - but whats going on with the kernel extensions? I want to put them on the boot-cd in the initrd, okay. But is that all I have to do, to get my own "driver" working, or is it more? Best regards and thanks for your help! Dominik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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