10.5.6 on ASUS P5W DH

[Paul Gleeson]

I'm trying to install 10.5.6 on my ASUS P5W DH board running of a USB drive.

 

I have a very stable 10.5.5 on the same drive. Here is what I have done so far.

 

Installed Chameleon 1.0.12 as the boot loader (MBR)

Used the DSDT GUI to create a dsdt.aml file in the root directory (Do I need to do anything else?)

After this 10.5.5 still works fine.

 

Then I run the 10.5.6 update (from a dmg file 377mb) with the script running to remove the AppleIntelCPUPoerManagement kext.

Install finishes OK.

 

Reboot using -v -x or any combination leaves the system waiting for disk 0s1 (not my USB disk)

So I try using rd=disk3s1 in the boot options but this just freezes too.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks Paul

[gary88]

I'm trying to install 10.5.6 on my ASUS P5W DH board running of a USB drive.

 

I have a very stable 10.5.5 on the same drive. Here is what I have done so far.

 

Installed Chameleon 1.0.12 as the boot loader (MBR)

Used the DSDT GUI to create a dsdt.aml file in the root directory (Do I need to do anything else?)

After this 10.5.5 still works fine.

 

Then I run the 10.5.6 update (from a dmg file 377mb) with the script running to remove the AppleIntelCPUPoerManagement kext.

Install finishes OK.

 

Reboot using -v -x or any combination leaves the system waiting for disk 0s1 (not my USB disk)

So I try using rd=disk3s1 in the boot options but this just freezes too.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks Paul

 

Hi Paul, I don´t know exactly what your problem is, but one thing I know. The 10.5.6 update has big Firewire and USB Issues on our board (asus p5w)

Many people who updated lost firewire and usb ports. In my case Firewire is working, but I lost some usb ports, the other port are runninh in usb 1.1 mode only.

When you boot from a usb drive you have a bunch o problems at this time. I would recommend to stay on 10.5.5 till this issues are solved. Many users are waiting for a patch, but it seems to be not so easy...

 

Best regards !

 

Gary

[Paul Gleeson]

Thanks Gary.

 

Since I'm trying to install on a USB disk this might be the problem.

I have my main 10.5.5 on a hard disk, and use my USB disk as a carbon copy.

 

I may trying install on my hard disk and see if this helps.

 

Paul