ASUS P5B-VM SE: Help needed

[De_Bilbao]

I'm trying to install OS X in this setup:

• Asus P5B-VM SE motherboard
  
• Intel Dual Core E2200 @ 2.2 GHz processor
  
• 2 GB DDR800 Kingston RAM
  
• 1 SATA Seagate Barracuda 7200 de 500 GB hard drive
  
• 1 SATA LG DVD RW
  

The motherboard has the latest BIOS installed - 1008 from november, 2008 - but in this mobo isn't possible to choose AHCI for the SATA ports. I think all my problems lay around this. It also has a JMicron JMB368 IDE controller with a PATA connector that is disabled right now.

 

The problem I'm facing is that afer booting with any modified Darwin - i've tested iDeneb, Kalyway, Leo4All, BOOT-132, even Tiger - the system stops "waiting for boot volume with UUID" and I can't continue.

 

I've tried with the SATA DVD, with an external USB DVD, with an IDE DVD connected to the JMicron PATA connector, from an iDeneb DVD image copied to an external USB drive bootable with Chamaleon. Tried to install in the SATA drive, even tried with an IDE hard drive... nothing seems to work. Even tried using rd=diskNsM to specify the drive but no chance to get it working.

 

I'm posting this images to see if you can shed some light to this darkness I'm in ;-)

 

This is the iDeneb 1.3 (with Mac OS X 10.5.5) Darwin Bootloader

 

 

This is a closeup of the error I'm getting

 

 

And this one is full-screen.

 

 

System has two SATA devices connected

 

 

Hard drive connected to port #1, but I've tried to change the port with no luck.

 

 

Same with DVD drive, connected to port #2

 

 

JMB368 IDE controller. Disabled.

 

 

BIOS version is the latest, 1008. If I could get a BIOS - modded or not - with the ability to setup SATA drives in AHCI mode everything would be OK, i'm quite sure.

 

 

This is the CPU configuration

 

 

The North Bridge

 

 

And the Southbridge

 

 

The suspend mode parameters

 

 

And the APM config

 

 

 

 

Thanks in advance folks, hope you can help me !!!

 

[De_Bilbao]

I've read some posts that suggest the problem could be related with the integrated video card and that using a PCI video card could do the trick. What do you think? Should I go and invest in some cheap nVidia GeForce video card or keep the integrated Intel GMA X3000?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Patadas]

hello.

Any lucky?

I also have a Asus P5B-VM and if I have the same

problem and I will buy a asus 9400gt to see if it works

 

tell you later the result.

[josh256]

Folks this mobo works fine with the 1008 firmware.. OS X does *not* require AHCI support (although it is recommended for hot-swap and minor performance boosts in server environments). I have installed both Kalyway (tedious EFI) and iDeneb (quick) w/o issue..

 

During iDeneb install select optional packages:

ICH X (8, 9, 10 support)

Attansic L1

ALC 883 3+3digital (unless you enable AC'97 in bios in which case its 3+3analogue)

NVdarwin 512MB (in my case as using a PCI-E 8600 512MB card)

 

 

P5B-VM SE Bios Settings:

 

IDE

SATA#1 Config: enable [enables/disables SATA ports 1+2]

SATA#2 Config: enable [enables/disables SATA ports 3+4]

Write Protect: Disabled

IDE Detect Time: 35sec

JMB368 Controller: enabed [enables/disables IDE port] <-- enable if you are using an IDE device

 

CPU:

C1E: Enabled

Max CPUID: Disabled

VT: Enabled

CPU TM: Enabled

Execute Disable: Enabled

EIST: Enabled

 

Northbridge:

Memory Remap: Enabled (necessary if >3GB of RAM)

Memory Hole: Disabled

Mode Select: Disabled

Peg Port: Auto

Force X1: Disabled

 

Power:

Suspend Mode: S3 only

ACPI Version: v2.0 (3.0 may also work, need to verify with AppleACPI.kext)

 

USB:

BIOS EHCI Hand-off: Enabled (Necessary for EHCI support - otherwise no highspeed USB devices!)

 

***Edit: the Attansic L1 driver is not perfect, I've had a handful panics.. a lot w/ VMware Fusion - buy a PCI-E x4 NIC if you plan on using VMware *or* plan on upgrading to Snow Leopard [as the Attansic.kext likely won't port***