First Boot After Install Hangs.

[swanniebroo]

Hey Guys,

 

Just start out by saying:

1) I am fairly computer literate, and anything I don't understand, I can Google and get a good idea of, and

2) This is my first time (attempting) installing OSx86.

 

Let's start out with my hardware.

Asus P5Q-E Wifi-AP Edition

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.33Ghz Processor.

Previously 4GB of RAM, although one stick blew recently, so 2GB RAM.

nVidia GeForce 6600GT 256.00MB (Fairly old, I know)

Numerous Hard-Drives, but the one Mac OS X will be booting to is a brand new 1.5TB Western Digital Green Drive, 7200, with 32MB cache. Each time I attempt the install, I reformat it to a 100GB partition, with the rest of the drive free space. I do this using the Mac OS X Boot CD.

And, the OSx86 version I am using is:

iPC 10.5.6 Final PPF5 (or something about PPPF5, it's got a P, an F and a 5 in it (Tutorial on "Testing Grounds" told me to use this version)

 

Okay,

I can install fine, it all shows up correctly, first couple of installs I checked the disk and all that.

Each install, I have widdled down the number of driver/patches/tools/etc. that I have tried to install. Most recent install was with nothing.

However, the problem NEVER changes. The only thing that has ever changed is it went from 16384 to 10something when I removed the stick of RAM. The 4096 didn't change.

I would tell you what it says after this, but, it doesn't say anything. It just hangs.

"4096 cluster IO buffer (and there is one more word after this). I am using -v (to see what is going wrong), -f (to force load all kexts)(something from various tutorials), and cpus=1, because otherwise I just get a reboot when Darwin tries to load.

 

Sorry if that problem description is a bit vague, I just can't remember the number that starts with 10, but i know it is 5 digits, the first two being 1 and 0. And the word after buffer. It is always the same. I am on my laptop right now, and this install is going on to my desktop.

 

Thanks in advance to anyone who even suggests a solution. I would be very grateful.

 

P.S. Have tried an install with DSDT patch on, and have also modified the BIOS a little to specs other people have tried.

[swanniebroo]

sorry to bump this, but I would really like an answer to this..

 

Sorry,

but Thanks.