omnichad Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Summary: SL DVD can't see any SATA drives New to Intel/Vanilla installs but have a working AMD Hack. I bought an MSI X48C Platinum motherboard and an Intel Core 2 Quad. The motherboard has the Intel X48 Express chipset with an ICH9 southbridge. I have SATA set to AHCI mode. I have disabled the onboard IDE controller, and I'm sure these ports are controlled by the ICH9 chip. DVD Drive in port 1 and hard drive in port 0. When I boot to a Chameleon Boot-132 or Empire EFI or any other bootloader CD, I can see my drives just fine. When I eject and put in the Snow Leopard DVD, I can select it. In verbose mode, I get the following error repeated over and over: EBIOS read error: Error 0x09 Block 0x(varies) Sectors 0 I also have a Snow Leopard install already on the HD, but for my AMD Hack. If I try to boot with an insane number of flags (to be safe): -v -x -s I get "still waiting for root device," same as when I boot with just -v. I get the idea that I must need some .kext just to get the Snow Leopard DVD to see both itself and the install drive. I don't know where to go from there. I don't have a USB drive large enough to copy all of snow onto. Just big enough for a bootloader. Have tried running the bootloader from CD or USB and it doesn't make any difference at all. I have tried IDE and all manner of other settings in the BIOS with no success. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197868-help-installing-sl-on-msi-x48c-platinum/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
omnichad Posted November 16, 2009 Author Share Posted November 16, 2009 I'm trying Leo4all right now to get at least 10.5 running. I got an instant reboot until I booted using cpus=1. During the verbose boot I see that it got root device from some long string, wherein I noticed the strings "AppleIntelPIIXATARoot" and "ICHx" Hope that helps. UPDATE: Leo4all and Kalyway both got through the installer process with SATA in IDE mode, and both failed to boot in IDE or AHCI. Hangs at "Using XXXX buffer header and XXXX cluster IO buffer headers" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197868-help-installing-sl-on-msi-x48c-platinum/#findComment-1332365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lc31c Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 I have this damn board. And I hate it now (its been a damn while and i still dont have a normal system running) if u ever get it to boot retail do me a favor, pass me the Boot-132 iso. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197868-help-installing-sl-on-msi-x48c-platinum/#findComment-1335273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
omnichad Posted November 19, 2009 Author Share Posted November 19, 2009 I have this damn board. And I hate it now (its been a damn while and i still dont have a normal system running) if u ever get it to boot retail do me a favor, pass me the Boot-132 iso. Thanks I'm actually probably going to RMA it and put the replacement one up on eBay. I couldn't even install Windows 7 on the thing. It actually stopped being able to see the DVD in the middle of the install, despite actually showing the hard drives and DVD-ROM drive during the beginning of Windows Setup. I managed to install Windows 7 on an IDE drive, but couldn't even install a Leopard distro onto IDE either. I spent probably 16 hours straight with the board, and I just simply gave up! I tried literally anything imaginable. I have a GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P on the way today. Even though I can't afford it, I can't afford to lose another night of sleep over this MSI. The mail-in rebate is a plus. I saw this board all over the forums, and even found a Boot-132 for it. Works for me, because I have DDR2 memory anyway. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197868-help-installing-sl-on-msi-x48c-platinum/#findComment-1335927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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