iPC 10.5.6 installation on MSI P35 Neo m/b

[trojanfoe]

Hi there, I wonder if anyone can shed some light on installing the iPC 10.5.6 distro (with PPF3 applied) on an MSI P35 Neo (MSI part MS-7360). I have a Core 2 Duo (E8400) installed and if I boot with no kernel boot options I see the Apple symbol and then nothing happens. If I supply 'cpus=1' then I see the Apple symbol and the rotating (wait) sign underneath but then nothing more happens. I have tried disabling/enabling lots of BIOS settings but nothing makes a difference.

 

I have booted with '-v cpus=1' and taken a picture of the screen. Note that I waited about 10 minutes and did not see any 'still waiting for root device' messages.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b6c8558...04e75f6e8ebb871

 

I checked the MD5 hashes during each installation of the ISO PPF patches and wrote at both 4x speed and then tried 1x speed.

 

This m/b contains a SATA and a PATA controller (Marvell - I don't know what the SATA controller is). I have a disk attached to SATA and one to PATA (where a new partition is waiting for the installation). The DVD drive is also attached to the PATA (a Pioneer DVR-115DBK).

 

I read on the OSX86 Wiki that Hackintosh has only been successfully installed on this m/b using the Kalyway 10.5.2 install, but that just reboots while starting Darwin/X86.

 

I have also been unable to start any alternative kernels (sleepkernel for example) - trying any results in the boot process returning to the 'press Enter to boot or F8 to enter options' prompt.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Cheers,

Andy

[srg70]

Yes, it is right for my configuration also. I have Gigabyte with nForce 630i but can't boot and can't change kernel