iDeneb 1.4 (10.5.6) Installs but wont boot

[ikaracolt]

Hi,

 

I am completely new to OSx86 (In fact I have never even used a Mac...) and am very keen to try it out and see what it can do.

 

I obtained iDeneb 1.4 10.5.6 , burned it to disc and installed it using a Sata drive to a spare hard disc. This took less than 30 minutes and went very smoothly.

 

When i rebooted it hanged. I tried using "-v" to see where it went wrong and found - "10485 Buffer Headers and 4096 Cluster IO Buffer Headers" to be the last line.

 

I did some googling and found that my problem was an 'ACPI' issue with my motherboard - an MSI P35 Neo2. I found a lot of posts and bits of information, references to patches and SSE2 and even a how-to guide about the issue, but I could not make sense of them all or get a picture of what I needed to do - particularly as many solutions involved using a working installation of OSx in the first place.

 

I tried re-installing using different kernels and options, and using cpus=1, but got the same error every time. I do not use any IDE devices. I have a working XP install on my main hard drive that can 'see' the OSx partition, but no working OSx installs at all.

 

Please can somebody clarify for me what I can do to get a bootable install?

Many thanks.

 

MSI P35 Neo2 motherboard

E8400 CPU

2 GB DDR2 Ram

2x Sata hard drives

1x Sata DVD drive

HD4870 GPU