Please Help

[pvdbogaard]

I am reading many messages in many threads. Currently I am just overwhelmed with info. And basically stuck...

 

I bought my new system (GA EX58UD5, latest BIOS, I7 920, SATA disk, NVidea 9800GT) in the hope to install Leopard. I have a retail 1.5.1 disk.

Burned many CD's and DVD;s. The initial boot succeeds. Ram disk is openend. All extentions read, than silence. Most of the times the following message is displayed:

 

Attempting to determine CPU multiplier. If system reboots RDBMS 198h causes a fault.

Determined CPU:FSB mulitplier to be 0

CPU says its multiplier is 0 which makes no sense. The kernel as shipped by Apple will not support this and will cause the machine to reboot immiediately.

Press 'y' to continue or Ctrl-Alt-Delete to reboot

 

 

But always ending in a sponaneuous return in the BIOS.

 

Was able to install and boot XP. This makes me think the hardware is ok.

 

Tried recreating the /Extra/Extentsion folder in the RAM disk. Even removed all except dsmos.kext and disabler.kext. No luck. Currently have all kext as specified in #149505 in the /Extra/Extension folder.

Besides this there is nothing in the ramdisk image.

The rest of the boot partition looks like:

 

# ls -alR

total 82236

drwxr-xr-x 1 _unknown _unknown 2048 Jul 22 16:40 .

drwxrwxrwt@ 4 root admin 136 Jul 24 17:43 ..

-rwxr-xr-x 1 _unknown _unknown 63232 Jul 22 16:40 BOOT

-rwxr-xr-x 1 _unknown _unknown 41975296 Jul 24 16:24 INITRD.IMG

drwxr-xr-x 1 _unknown _unknown 2048 Jul 22 16:40 ISOLINUX

-rwxr-xr-x 1 _unknown _unknown 12241 Jul 22 16:39 ISOLINUX.BIN

-rwxr-xr-x 1 _unknown _unknown 47532 Jul 22 16:39 MBOOT.C32

 

./ISOLINUX:

total 12

drwxr-xr-x 1 _unknown _unknown 2048 Jul 22 16:40 .

drwxr-xr-x 1 _unknown _unknown 2048 Jul 22 16:40 ..

-rwxr-xr-x 1 _unknown _unknown 63 Jul 22 16:40 ISOLINUX.CFG

 

 

Would appreciate a little more insight in what best to do next. Would really love to run Leopard.

 

Thanks

Paul