rewind Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I was able to install iAtkos V7 on a stock M3A78EM mobo and while it seems to work fine, I have a couple of questions post-install. When I try to connect a third SATA drive, I keep getting kernel panics. Both my DVD and Drive 0 are SATA. Can anyone point me in the right direction? System Specs: ASUS M3A78-EM mobo AMD AM2+ 4800 3Gb memory Using onboard video, lan. Options used: kernel 9.7 ATI SATA SMBIOS Realtek NIC Voodoo Sound That is about all I remember. I know I should have written down the options I chose. I have not been able to test sound or wireless connectivity. Display is set to 1024x768 only. If I were to purchase a PCIE vidcard, will it allow me better resolution? What vidcards have been used successfully in this distro? Any help would be greatly appreciated. And many thanks to iAtkos and insanelymac for this excellent software. Mitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveta Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 the problem of resolution is that you don't have QE/CI activated. which video card is installedi in your system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rewind Posted January 19, 2010 Author Share Posted January 19, 2010 I am using the onboard video of my mobo which is the ATI chipset. I just did a fresh install after numerous attempts with the different options and all ending with kernel panics. I did not remove any of the defaults from the install package, but used the following to enable me to get to my desktop. kernel 9.7.0 x86 ACPI OHR Remove TYMCE ATI Video ATI SATA USB Voodoo Sound Voodoo PS2 Realtek On restart of install, the machine went through its' motions then gave me kernel panic. Removed DVD, reset BIOS so that HD boots first, reboot then went through desktop configuration. All this time, I got garbled noise from sound system. Once the desktop had been configured however, I was able to view some (codec issues with the others) of my movies with normal sound. All my USB ports work fine, I have not tried it on an IDE drive. Can anyone recommend a compatible video card that would enable QE? I am not a gamer and this machine was built as a dedicated DAW. One interesting thing I noticed with this install, if the unit reboots on its own, I get kernel panic. But if I shut it down manually then reboot, I have no problems. Anyone know why that is? Cheers. mitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockHrt Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Hi everyone, My rig : AMD Phenom II x4 940, M3A78-EM ^^780g + sb700 4x2GB 800MHz Kingston ALC1200 500 GB SATA Seagate HDD tsst DVD-rw SATA no add-on card WinXP x64 I'm total noob in this area Firstly I tried ideneb and with that I couldn't even reached welcome screen.. Now I'm trying iATKOS v7 I have set sata controller to ACPI also some power mangement to ACPI too in BIOS using -v -x platform=ACPI cpus=1 I've at least reached to welcome screen But the problem is that I'm not able to format any of my partition to HFS+ in disk utility...None of any drive is mounted...even it's not able to mount them... I tried everything possible and known to me updated MBR using fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0 used many bash commands like diskutil eraseVolume +HFS leo /dev/disk0s4 without success its saying that failed to mount even before welcome screen these error occurs localhost kextd[47]: root filesystem is read-only; skipping kernel link data generation along with all partitions unable to mount syntax etc I tried using another ATA HDD but same error can't mount.... flashed bios.... changed internal wires.... GParted can't create HFS+.... Macdrive doesn't support xpx64 what to do? Edit/Delete Message So the problem is that It's not able to mount any partition. whats the actual problem? How It can be resolved? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hybridblack Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Hi everyone,My rig : AMD Phenom II x4 940, M3A78-EM ^^780g + sb700 4x2GB 800MHz Kingston ALC1200 500 GB SATA Seagate HDD tsst DVD-rw SATA no add-on card WinXP x64 I tried using another ATA HDD but same error can't mount.... flashed bios.... changed internal wires.... GParted can't create HFS+.... Macdrive doesn't support xpx64 what to do? Edit/Delete Message So the problem is that It's not able to mount any partition. whats the actual problem? How It can be resolved? Thanks hey i m new too and am going to install iPC OSx86 on my pc soon i have the same motherboard/hdd/onboard video etc... ur issue could be due to:- 1)HDD controller kext issue (which can be solved by using some other os version) 2)as ntfs partitioned are not detected by osx ,i advise u format the mac installation partition to fat32 then try reformatting it to hsf by ur mac disk utility....or use a 3rd party partitioner like "Acronis Disk Suite"and directly format it to hsf u should refer to this thread:- http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=123137 all the best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarmanto Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 I have the M3A78-EM as well, and Leopard wasn't too difficult to install, using either iDeneb or XxX -- that is, once I reverted the board to an older version of the BIOS. The way I've chosen to go with Snow Leopard is a little more complex, as I decided to start with a retail Snow installation disk, rather than one of the pre-rolled distros... and ultimately, I think that retail is going to be the better method to use. Much to my disappointment, I have never been able to get the onboard video to work quite right, so I just bit the bullet and bought a cheap Nvidia card, and that did the trick with full QE/CI support. If you have one or two spare SATA hard drives at hand, you could probably follow much the same route that I used to get where I am: I started with a Leopard install, around the middle of last year: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.7#Asus (Scroll down to the AMD section, and I'm the second entry there.) I just recently got Snow Leopard mostly functional, using the existing Leopard installation for several of the steps: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.6.4#Asus (I'm the only AMD entry on this list, presently at the top of the Asus section.) Caveats for Snow Leopard: The sound works -- but not perfectly, (see the notes in the wiki) and I'm still trying to find PS/2 kexts which work with this board, though I may just give up on PS/2 and replace my aging PS/2 mouse with a cheap USB mouse. If anyone else comes up with solutions to these minor issues, feel free to contribute either here or over on the wiki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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