Christov Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Hey all, I bought an asus x59gl ( http://www.simplyasus.com/ASUS_X59GL-AP007C_450683.html ) the other day with views to use it as a transportable work machine for uni, travelling and other things. I thought since I'm downgrading it to winxp from vista (yuck) I'd have a crack at putting OSX on it at the same time, now I know it has a geforce chipset and this could be the main problem but it seems I should get an error of some sort rather than what I do get... Basically I have made the laptop boot off the Kalyway 10.5.2 CD which worked brilliantly in my PC, the laptop sees the installer, it starts it, a load of information comes up (no errors that i can see with -v) and the final message I get is: "Kernel Version: Darwin kernel Version 9.2.0: Sun Mar 2 00:11:08 SCT 2008; made by ToH:xnu-1228/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386" now if i put the disc into my pc or other devices, it goes further than this, to the osx install GUI... anyone got any ideas why it's freezing at this point? I tried searching around and found nothing that could help me I'm not hugely familiar with the mac installer process, not as much as a windows installer process anyway... but I am computer savvy so to speak, so I'd love some kind of help with this issue from you fine folks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146742-asus-x59gl-laptop-kalyway-installation-problems/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christov Posted January 14, 2009 Author Share Posted January 14, 2009 *bump* still got the same issue after trying to fiddle with the bios and various settings on startup I've started to get hold of some other osx86 releases so gonna try them in a while. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146742-asus-x59gl-laptop-kalyway-installation-problems/#findComment-1041120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christov Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 *bump again...* could really do with some things to try I may not have thought of by now... Tried using iAtkos and it gets to the white mac logo screen but then the laptop keeps rebooting... anyone experienced this before? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146742-asus-x59gl-laptop-kalyway-installation-problems/#findComment-1043750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christov Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 *bump once again...* Just used JaS, this got me to the installer, but I've tried every conceivable setting with no luck. Now it will install osx but almost immediately reboot upon displaying the white apple logo screen, enabling -v doesn't help as the instant restart doesn't allow me to read any messages I'm getting. Perhaps someone could lure me in the right direction as to what this problem might be? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146742-asus-x59gl-laptop-kalyway-installation-problems/#findComment-1044400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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