Installation of Mac OS X 10.5 on Acer Aspire M5802

[Nauscar]

I have recently installed leopard on a separate partition using the iATKOS_5i disc. Initially I had trouble trying to boot with the dvd but this was solved with the command "cpus=1". First I installed Leopard with not additional patches than default and received a hang up saying "MAC Framework successfully initialized using 16304 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers". I did some research and discovered this was an issue with an ACPI kext. I then tried a new installation with the Stock ACPI Modified patch and still got the same problem. Reinstalled once more with the ACPI (x86) patch and once again same problem. Finally I tried the APCI driver with an Intel AHCI driver and got different results. Now I see a different error message (image attached).

 

Acer Aspire M5802 System Specifications:

Processor Type: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400

Processor Speed: 2.66GHz

RAM: 8 GB DDR2

Hard Drive: 750 GB SATA

Optical Drives: 16x Super Multi DVD±R/RW

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

Integrated WiFi: Realtek RTL8190 802.11n Wireless LAN (Mini-)PCI

Sound Card: Realtek ALC88S

 

if anyone has installed os x 10.5 with the iATKOS_5i disc on an acer before or knows a good way to install leopard in general, guidelines or a tutorial would be much appreciated.

[Nauscar]

I changed my SATA mode in my BIOS from AHCI to IDE Native and now I get further along in the boot sequence. Now i get a different error message:

 

 </P> <P>Jan 9 06:37:59 localhost kextd[47]: a link/load error occurred for kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin.kext
display: family specific matching fails
Jan 9 06:38:03 localhost mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-176.2 (Aug 15 2008 14:58:54) [22]: starting NTFS driver 2.1 [Flags: R/O].
NTFS volume SYSTEM RESERVED, version 3.1.
Jan 9 06:38:06 localhost mDNSResponder[22]: WARNING: sandbox_init error Could not set Mach lookup policy for service com.apple.bsd.dirhelper err=1100Could not set Mach lookup policy for service com.apple.distributed_notifications.2 err=100Could not set Mach lookup policy for service com.apple.ocspd er=1100Could not set Mach lookup policy for service com.apple.mDNSResponderHelper err=1100Could not set Mach lookup policy for service com.apple.SecurityServer err=1100Could not set Mach lookup policy for service com.apple.SystemConfiguration.configd er
NTFS volume name Acer, version 3.1.
Jan 9 06:38:06 localhost /usr/sbin/ocspd[83]: starting</P> <P>

 

It then stops at this point and wont successfully boot. Any advice on how to resolve this problem would be much appreciated. On the bright side I am able to boot into safe mode by typing "cpus=1 -x" and use Mac!

[Nauscar]

Update

(if anyone actually reads this)

 

added OHR patch and installed nvidia graphics driver with NVdarwin_Installer_1,2,5.mpkg

 

Mac OS X 10.5.5 still will not boot! This is the text i see in verbose mode

(if you have trouble reading this and would like to help reply and I will type it out)

[Nauscar]

Well Mac OS X 10.5.6 is installed and running now. thanks for all the replies and comments... you guys were a lot of help..........

 

i already have an audio driver and will be installing that momentarily

 

if anyone could find support for NVIDIA Geforce GT220 or Realtek rtl8190 pci wlan for leopard it would be appreciated. But I doubt that is gonna happen so once again I wont get my hopes up.