hector_sosa Posted November 9, 2009 Share Posted November 9, 2009 I'm looking to put together a mac for compatibility with some of our customers at work, but boss-man wants to see a proof-of-concept machine first. I dusted off and ECS PM800-M2 motherboard, threw in a half a gig of unbranded pc2100 ram, installed an Nvidia GEForce 5200 card and threw in some IDE devices. Prescott 2.4ghz proc supports SSE3 instruction sets. I'm currently playing with iDeneb 10.5.6 - I get thru the install and the machine begins to boot, then the screen goes gray and I am instructed to restart my machine. Using the -v option at startup I don't get any kernel panics, it just hangs halfway thru the load. Apologies, didn't write down where it hangs. I've read posts for prolly 2 hours and everyone refers to kernel panic or error messages that can be sorted out. My install isn't giving me any of that. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to start? Different distro? Different parts? I have another mobo (different make/model) I can try, but it has to be swapped out of an existing windows box. Thanks, Jon Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196723-trying-to-install-leopard-on-old-hardware/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hector_sosa Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 anybody? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196723-trying-to-install-leopard-on-old-hardware/#findComment-1326101 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikewill57 Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 If you've got the time, I'd say a different distro. I had to try all of them before I got it running. It could also be you're not selecting the correct info at customization as far as chipset, etc. goes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196723-trying-to-install-leopard-on-old-hardware/#findComment-1326211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hector_sosa Posted November 11, 2009 Author Share Posted November 11, 2009 Customization - I've done about eight installs from barebones to kitchen sink and can't get it working. As for distros I pulled kalyway 10.5.2 last night - I'll burn a dvd when I get home and give it a shot. Curious - are you running latest greatest quad core technology or are you on an old single core like me? If another distro doesn't work I'm gonna try a different mobo, but looking fo suggestions I guess. Thanks nevermind on the system question - after I posted I saw your system specs in your post. Maybe I'll have to look at that more closely in the other forum pages........ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196723-trying-to-install-leopard-on-old-hardware/#findComment-1327314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hector_sosa Posted November 13, 2009 Author Share Posted November 13, 2009 Finally got a chance to install Kalyway last night and yay me - I've got a working Hackintosh! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196723-trying-to-install-leopard-on-old-hardware/#findComment-1329554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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