stevescotia Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Hi all, I'm just about tearing my hair out and I really hate to post if I don't have to but... I have a GA-EP35C-DS3R board and simply cannot get Boot-132 method of install working at all. I've tried various ISOs including the P35 iso, the EP35-DS3R iso from sonotone and others but end up with the same problem in that I just cannot get it to boot the retail Leopard disc to install. I always end up with prompt asking for hexadecimal figure for boot drive and whether I just hit enter or try various options (90-9f) I just get bounced back. It's almost as if once I hit the Darwin prompts my DVD Writer (Pioneer DVR-215D) has vanished. (I'm not using any of the JMicron SATA ports). I've been into BIOS and switched betwenn ACHI enabled and disabled but that has no effect either. Has anybody got the Boot-132 method working with this board? Can anybody give me a slap and point out the majorly obvious mistake I'm making? Thanks for any help... Steve Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161747-boot-132-and-ga-ep35c-ds3r/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakaryya Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Hi all, I'm just about tearing my hair out and I really hate to post if I don't have to but... I have a GA-EP35C-DS3R board and simply cannot get Boot-132 method of install working at all. I've tried various ISOs including the P35 iso, the EP35-DS3R iso from sonotone and others but end up with the same problem in that I just cannot get it to boot the retail Leopard disc to install. I always end up with prompt asking for hexadecimal figure for boot drive and whether I just hit enter or try various options (90-9f) I just get bounced back. It's almost as if once I hit the Darwin prompts my DVD Writer (Pioneer DVR-215D) has vanished. (I'm not using any of the JMicron SATA ports). I've been into BIOS and switched betwenn ACHI enabled and disabled but that has no effect either. Has anybody got the Boot-132 method working with this board? Can anybody give me a slap and point out the majorly obvious mistake I'm making? Thanks for any help... Steve I have the EP35 DS3 mobo and I used the boot 132 method but I made a custom 132 iso. You must also be sure you have a full retail dvd and not the dvd that came with a mac. If you pm me I'll let you have my boot 132 iso. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161747-boot-132-and-ga-ep35c-ds3r/#findComment-1130962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevescotia Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 Thanks for that...sadly it didn't help. Got message to press a key to boot from CD or F8 and countdown. Swapped to retail disc, pressed enter and counter restarted. Pressed F8 and tried combinations of drive numbers again to no effect. Same as other ISOs. Back to drawing board but thanks for help. Any chance you or anyone else could let me know your BIOS settings, esp in regard to AHCI and BIOS version? I've juggled the ports my writer is attached to as well. I'll spend another day on it then I'll give up I think and stick with normal bootloader. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161747-boot-132-and-ga-ep35c-ds3r/#findComment-1131024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevescotia Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 And... I'm a muppet. It appears I had a bad burn of my retail disc... if that's not a contradiction. Your boot disc works a treat now - cheers! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161747-boot-132-and-ga-ep35c-ds3r/#findComment-1133989 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakaryya Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Hi stevescotia, I'm glad you made progress. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161747-boot-132-and-ga-ep35c-ds3r/#findComment-1138720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac_F Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 Hi. I also have problem with installing OSX on GA-EP35C-DS3R. When I boot from CD i made with this tutorial: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=157772 my computer restarts after I see apple logo. Zakaryya can you please PM me your boot 132 ISO? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161747-boot-132-and-ga-ep35c-ds3r/#findComment-1169817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac_F Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 I solved it. Just type cpus=1 when starting up system. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161747-boot-132-and-ga-ep35c-ds3r/#findComment-1170418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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