sev1972 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Hi All, I've been reading this forum for a long time regarding the why's and wherefores and have slowly accumultated the necesary articles and advice needed. I have an Asus P5Q-Deluxe with and Intel Q9550 and 8GB onboard. The optical drives are all SATA. Using the thread MAC OS X ON ASUS PQ5 and others as a starting point and the excellent rocksteady pdf on the same thread I've done the following: Set two hard disks in the case - one for Mac OS X and the other for Windows7 Created P5Q-Deluxe Boot 123 cd from the above thread. Flashed the Bios with the P5Q deluxe bios from the above linked thread by Juzzi Flashed the Bios on my Video card with the excellect help from Aqua Mac in this thread. Collected Kext files for IHC10R chipset and ADI AD200B sound (I will be using Lacie Firewire speakers with this install) Set Bios to AHCI and enabled Firewire Controller as per Rocksteady's PDF. Got my Mac Owning friend to lend me his copy of Leopard Retail which I made an Iso from In Windows7 with BurnIso. Booted from the boot 123 cd when the disk light stopped flashing went to swap with the Leopard DVD When disk light went out pressed -v and enter. However I didn't see the stripe that asks which volume you want to boot from, instead just going back to the screen wanting to allocate a drive number. I used 80 and it just went back to the original Boot: prompt I pressed enter and tried 81, the same, - right through to 89! I think that this must be just something minor i'm missing, and I can't see the wood for the trees. It might be a long shot, but perhaps the ISO I took from the Leopard DVD is not good enough or fouled in some way. I did an ISO copy and also a direct duplication with NERO 7. Would the fact that both volumes show in windows as Bootcamp have anything to do with it? Perhaps it would be worth trying again with the actual retail DVD itself rather than a backup of it, or perhaps create the backup disk from within MAC OS X on his machine? Many thanks in advance for your support on this and any suggestions you may have. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177143-installing-on-an-asus-p5q-deluxe-small-guidance-needed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sev1972 Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 anybody? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177143-installing-on-an-asus-p5q-deluxe-small-guidance-needed/#findComment-1212873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santora Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 anybody? Did you ever get this working? I'm having issue with my esata port. Can't get it to recognize on the mac. Works fine under Vista. What driver are you using? Mark Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177143-installing-on-an-asus-p5q-deluxe-small-guidance-needed/#findComment-1280748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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