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I made a topic some months ago, but lately I've been trying this again, so here's a list of everything I know and don't know about OSX86 - I'm hoping this will become a definitive how-to guide for AMD (and specifically Asus Motherboard) people. :thumbsup_anim:

 

- Okay, so first off, I have Kalyway 10.5.2 AMD/Intel burned to a DVD-RW.

 

- I tried numerous installations previous, including iAtkos and Leo4All.

 

- I also tried numerous boot locations, the two most important being both an internal and external DVD drive.

 

- I have only a vague understanding of Kexts and Kernel modification - all the info I found on it seems to be aimed towards those already familiar with it.

 

- As above, I think perhaps I need to modify a Kext (there is an ADD-KEXT-TO-DVD folder with Kalyway), but I don't know what I need or how to go about this.

 

- Booting the DVD produces one of two errors, either "AppleNForceATA: Found 0 Units", or "Still Waiting For Root Device".

 

I tried disabling SATA, switching to an IDE DVD drive, IDE HDD, and back to SATA. Nothing seems to work.

 

And now my system specs:

 

Asus M2n MX-SE Motherboard

AMD Athlon X2 4800+

250Gb SATA HDD

External Samsung USB DVD drive

Geforce 8600GT

 

Many thanks in advance, hope we can get it going this time. :D

 

Update!

 

Upon reburning the DVD, I now an error that goes something like this:

 

AppleNForceATA: Found 0 Units

ApplePS2Keyboard: Probe Failed

ApplePS2Mouse: Probe Failed

AppleNForceATA: sata phy reset done

 

Worth mentioning I'm using USB keybaord etc by the way. :)

I used this

Amd 10.5.2. guide

 

And worked for me

Only Atheros MOB lan does'nt work

 

Hardware:

 

CPU : AMD X64 5600+

Mobo: Asus M3A

RAM: 4GB DDR2 633 kingston

HDD: 500GB SATA (WD) 1000GB SATA (samsung)

GRAP: Nvidea 7300gs PCi-e

Thanks. :)

 

Just before I leave the PC, I have to ask - does that mean that even if I install it, there's no way of connectig to the internet?

 

I used a 3-com pci ethernet card and it worked out of the box

Unfortunately, that guide is for a machine a bit too different to mine - I'm on SATA, not IDE.

 

However, I DID boot using -v and got a new result. First, I got:

 

AppleNForceATA: Found 1 Units

 

Followed by about ten or so lines of errors. The biggest I saw were the following:

 

Phy Connection Failed

 

Unable to Take Control From BIOS

 

AppleNForceATA: Found 0 Units

 

And then, after a moment, Still Waiting for Root Device. :)

Unfortunately, that guide is for a machine a bit too different to mine - I'm on SATA, not IDE.

 

However, I DID boot using -v and got a new result. First, I got:

 

AppleNForceATA: Found 1 Units

 

Followed by about ten or so lines of errors. The biggest I saw were the following:

 

Phy Connection Failed

 

Unable to Take Control From BIOS

 

AppleNForceATA: Found 0 Units

 

And then, after a moment, Still Waiting for Root Device. :(

 

I also use Sata

Can U change in your bios IDE in AHCI ??

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