otaku Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 I have spent the past few days trying to get Mac OS X to install on my machine. Here are my specs: ABIT KV8 Pro motherboard AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Two 250GB SATA drives on a RAID1 mirror The KV8 motherboard uses a SATA driver (VIA) that is supposedly supported by Mac OS X. My keyboard and mouse are both USB. I have a backup keyboard that is PS/2 and is plugged into the system. Almost every time I try booting up with the Mac OS X install DVD (MACOSX_10.4.4DVDPATCHED_MYZ.ISO), I will get to the screen where I can choose my language, but neither my keyboard nor my mouse will function. This includes my PS/2 keyboard. I have read that there may be some problems with the onboard USB controller on my motherboard, but even if I disable USB in my BIOS and boot to the install DVD, my PS/2 keyboard *still* refuses to work. Now, I say "almost every time" because it did work once. Once, randomly, my PS/2 keyboard worked. I wasn't able to configure the disk using the disk utility, though, since I had no mouse and wasn't able to choose menu items using the keyboard. I have tried my best to recreate the scenario of the PS/2 keyboard working, but to no avail. I cannot get any input devices to work in the install CD. So, I followed the instructions located on this HOWTO: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...ATA_hard_drives Though it's specifically written for Nvidia controllers, I thought it still could be useful for me. I am able to boot Mac OS X in VMware, my dd copy worked fine, I copied the image to a primary partition of type 0xaf. I downloaded chain0, put it in C:\, and added the proper line to boot.ini. But now, whenever I select the option off of the Windows boot loader screen, all I get is a blinking cursor in the upper-left hand portion of my screen. No errors or anything. So, I cannot boot off of my hard drive at all and when I try booting into the install CD I cannot use a keyboard or mouse. Does anyone have any insight on this? I'd really appreciate it. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18684-how-to-install-without-a-working-mousekeyboard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
otaku Posted June 1, 2006 Author Share Posted June 1, 2006 Can anyone provide any insight into this problem? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18684-how-to-install-without-a-working-mousekeyboard/#findComment-123260 Share on other sites More sharing options...
otaku Posted June 3, 2006 Author Share Posted June 3, 2006 I would really appreciate it if someone could help me with this problem. Is there any more information I need to provide to be helped here? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18684-how-to-install-without-a-working-mousekeyboard/#findComment-124475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 If I were you, I would download and install 10.4.6. Well, other than that it would be great if you could try other keyboard/mouse (even USB ones). But frankly, I suspect that the problem is related to your mobo, not with your keyboard and mouse. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18684-how-to-install-without-a-working-mousekeyboard/#findComment-124497 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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