herto7 Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Hello everyone, im new at the hackintosh stuff. trying to install Leopard 10.5.6 PPF5 By iPC. i press enter at boot menu of the cd, the cd loads for like 5 sec and the reboots the computer.. my pc: Intel Core Dou E5200 2500Mhz sound: AC97 graphics intel accelrator g33/g31 2GB memory 400Mhz 500 GB Hard Drive WD any ideas how can i fix it? thanks in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202095-help-installing-please/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Jeremy Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Usually a reboot means that your kernel isn't compatible with your CPU. However a Core Duo should work fine with even vanilla. Did you verify the iso download before you burned? Are there any messages or errors that appear before the system reboots? You could also try another distro. Personally I've had success with iAtkos v7, but I've heard that is Kalyway is extremely compatible. EDIT: Slight correction, not all Core Duos are supported with the vanilla kernel. Even so, usually a distro disk will boot no matter what because they try to be as compatible as possible. I think you might have to just try another one. You could also try booting with cpus=1, but I've only heard of that solving kernel panics. Even so, it's worth a shot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202095-help-installing-please/#findComment-1358683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
herto7 Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 Usually a reboot means that your kernel isn't compatible with your CPU. However a Core Duo should work fine with even vanilla. Did you verify the iso download before you burned? Are there any messages or errors that appear before the system reboots? You could also try another distro. Personally I've had success with iAtkos v7, but I've heard that is Kalyway is extremely compatible. EDIT: Slight correction, not all Core Duos are supported with the vanilla kernel. Even so, usually a distro disk will boot no matter what because they try to be as compatible as possible. I think you might have to just try another one. You could also try booting with cpus=1, but I've only heard of that solving kernel panics. Even so, it's worth a shot. thanks a lot for helping. installation was succecful! but now the computer stuck when trying to load the osx the last to rows are: MAC Framework successfully initialized using 10486 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers the distro im using is by iPC the PPF5 version... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202095-help-installing-please/#findComment-1359357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Jeremy Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Ok. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that if you let it sit there for a while you'd get the error message "still waiting for root device". Did you put your BIOS in AHCI mode? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202095-help-installing-please/#findComment-1360719 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flaresent Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 My boot-up also stopped on that line. I solved this by typing RD=DISKxSx CPU=1 on startup options. X = the disk and partition number used when installing. Use disk utility to check this, if you didn't write it down. Of course, this is not a good permanent solution, but it at least got my system up and running. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202095-help-installing-please/#findComment-1371552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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