TheDirTchamber Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 I've given up on SL for now and tried to install ideneb 1.6 lite (10.5.8). Made the right bios settings, booted with the -v flag, and the setup goes all the way before the language selection. I get the setup background and the spinning beach ball, then I'm thrown back to the text mode with "server shutdown" or something. After a few seconds, "cpu halted" and the pc shuts down. I've also tried with the cpus=1, it's the same. I have a Core 2 Duo CPU, nforce 650i chipset mainboard, 4GB ram, nvidia 8600GT 512MB and a sata hard drive with a ntfs partition (no OS on it) and some unallocated space where I want to install OSX. What am I doing wrong? Is this problem related to the hard drive, or something else? P.S. I'm also seeing some "cannot mount disk0" or something, trough those many lines of text. I'm thinking it might be relevant. Please help me. Thank you. EDIT: Here is a screenshot of what I'm getting before that beach ball: And this is after it gets me back to text mode and shuts down the pc: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDirTchamber Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 I just tried with iatkos v7, it's the same thing, so it's not release related. Also removing the hard drive, just for testing, gives the same result, only there's no more "unable to mout /dev/disk0s1" error. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1394694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 I just tried with iatkos v7, it's the same thing, so it's not release related. Also removing the hard drive, just for testing, gives the same result, only there's no more "unable to mout /dev/disk0s1" error. OS X needs to be on a primary partition to boot and OS X Disk Utility does not recognize unallocated space on a hard drive, and so the space cannot be used to create a new partition..... so, you need to pepare a primary FAT32 or NTFS partition......which OS X can read/write to....... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1394705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDirTchamber Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 Thanks for the reply. I'll try right now and get back. LE: Nope, it's the same thing, only now I get "unable to mount /dev/disk0s2" too (for the newly created partition I guess). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1394708 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Thanks for the reply. I'll try right now and get back. LE: Nope, it's the same thing, only now I get "unable to mount /dev/disk0s2" too (for the newly created partition I guess). Once you have created the primary NTFS partition, then if you can see the volume in Disk Utility on the OS X distro you boot from, re-format it as MSDOS-FAT and then re-format it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)....... Right-click on the target OS X HDD volume icon on your Desktop -> Get Info. If the checkbox next to "Ignore ownership on this volume" is checked, then click on padlock symbol to authenticate and UNCHECK the checkbox, and then in Terminal, type: sudo chown 0:0 /Volumes/"your target OS X HDD volume name" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1394840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDirTchamber Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 I am sorry but it seems you're missing one point: I am not getting to the part where I can see the top toolbar with Disk Utility and stuff. I've created a FAT32 partition in Win (7 x64), then booted from the iatkos dvd and you can see from the screenshots above the problem I'm having. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1395362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDirTchamber Posted January 26, 2010 Author Share Posted January 26, 2010 Ok, I've tried some more on this. I've cleared a hard drive and made a partition with the "af" id in diskpart, then I've marked it as active. Booting from the Leopard dvd doesn't give me that "unable to mount" error anymore, but the last part is the same. No matter what settings I choose in the BIOS or what flags I'm using when booting, I get that shutdown error. Now I was able to read the first part of the error, it says something about localhost (halt), then (something) halted by root. The rest you can see in the small screenshot. I tried 3 different Leo releases, ideneb, iatkos and ipc. All give me the same thing. I've even removed 2GB of ram, thinking that maybe there's an issue with 4GB. Nothing works. Why is this happening? From what I read here and on other sites, P5N-E SLI should work with Leo without any issues, at least not at the installation part. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1396668 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muchlife Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 disk1s2 means you installed on the 2nd partition of the disk? where it says BSD root disk1s2 I had problems in the past putting the OSX install on partitions other than the top one, and on disks other than the first Sata controller or other than the master if IDE disk utility is not just inside OSX (which you can't boot to after install) its in the install disk, installer itself. so when you boot to an install disk, like iAtkos, iPC, etc you can get to disk utility in the top menu to format / create partitions. I usually create 2 partitions, and use the top one for OSX which would be disk0s1 and my 2nd (bottom) partition for data which would be disk0s2 perhaps your install parititon is not getting set active after install. try going back into install disc after installed, and set your partition active via terminal set partition active guide http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=22844 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1396684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDirTchamber Posted January 26, 2010 Author Share Posted January 26, 2010 I took that screenshot when I was trying to install on the second partition of that hard drive. Now it's empty, with just a "af" partition created via diskpart in windows. I've said this before, I am NOT getting to the GUI part of the installer. I get the grey background, the spinning beach ball for about 10 seconds, then that error in the second screenshot. So I can't use the disk utility because I don't have the toolbar at the top, I didn't even get to choose the language of the setup. Anyway, I seriously doubt that this is a hard drive issue. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1396689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muchlife Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 I am NOT getting to the GUI part of the installer. sorry, thats an important part i missed. im drawing blanks on this one. i dont think its a hard drive issue either being you cant even get to the installer. sounds like a bios setting is not right. getting into the installer GUI is pretty universal thing on almost any hardware setup. only reason i've seen people have trouble getting to the installer itself was bios settings like AHCI not enabled whats your motherboard manufacturer and model # ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1396692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDirTchamber Posted January 26, 2010 Author Share Posted January 26, 2010 It's Asus P5N-E SLI. And AHCI is enabled, I can't disable this, it's greyed out. I've disabled these in bios: Here are pics with every page on the bios. http://www.legitreviews.com/article/434/3/ And these are my settings before booting Leo setup: HDD Smart monitoring - disabled CPU Internal Thermal Control - Auto (I tried with Disabled too) CPUID MaxVal - Disabled C1E - Disabled Virtualization - Disabled Execute Disable Bit - Enabled Intel SpeedStep - Disabled HPET - Enabled All the integrated components are disabled (audio, lan, 1394, JMicron, serial, parallel) RAID is disabled And on the IDE function setup, everything is enabled (SATA controllers, IDE controllers, prefetch, DMA); I've also tried disabling everything but the IDE & SATA controllers where my DVD-RW and HDD are. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1396739 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muchlife Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 maybe a bad install disc? i would try burning install DVD again on 2x or 4x speed or try another distro like iPC 10.5.6 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1396758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDirTchamber Posted January 26, 2010 Author Share Posted January 26, 2010 maybe a bad install disc? i would try burning install DVD again on 2x or 4x speed or try another distro like iPC 10.5.6 Like I said above, I've tried 3 different Leopard releases, all burned at 2x. They work fine in vmware, so it's not the disk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1396794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDirTchamber Posted January 27, 2010 Author Share Posted January 27, 2010 Me happy. I did it. But you'll never guess how I installed ideneb 1.6. Believe it or not, I installed it in VMWARE, using the physical disk, not a virtual one. Selected the kexts for my hardware, installed, then restarted my PC. No boot flags, no nothing. Booted in 10 seconds into that Welcome video. Even my damn G11 keyboard worked from the start, even the sound volume wheel on it works. Anyway, now for the issues I'm having: 1. The mouse moves kinda slow, even with the acceleration almost at max. 2. My second display doesn't work. It's a Samsung TV, connected via DVI-HDMI cable to my video card. Leo sees the second display perfectly, even the supported resolutions and refresh rates. But the TV has the "no signal" message on it. It SHOULD work, according to Leo. 3. The network is not working. It sees the ethernet card, the MAC is ok, but it doesn't work if I enable the DHCP, like in Win. It gets some random ip, self-assigned. If I type the values manually, it says connected, but nothing works, not even a ping in my gateway. I've used the Network Tool in the Utilities folder and I seem to be receiving packets over the network, but I can't send any, I think. <-- FIXED And 4. I can't find a way to see the hidden files on Leo... <-- FIXED Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1396907 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarj Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Me happy. I did it. 3. The network is not working. It sees the ethernet card, the MAC is ok, but it doesn't work if I enable the DHCP, like in Win. It gets some random ip, self-assigned. If I type the values manually, it says connected, but nothing works, not even a ping in my gateway. I've used the Network Tool in the Utilities folder and I seem to be receiving packets over the network, but I can't send any, I think. <-- FIXED And 4. I can't find a way to see the hidden files on Leo... <-- FIXED Helo, I am having the exact same problem as you mentioned above in number 3. You mentioned that you fixed it. How did you do that? I have gone through hell for the past week trying to re-install v7 again and again and same thing. The network card can ping itself but it cannot ping the local gateway so forget about the Internet. PLEASE HELP!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1559782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDirTchamber Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 Helo, I am having the exact same problem as you mentioned above in number 3. You mentioned that you fixed it. How did you do that? I have gone through hell for the past week trying to re-install v7 again and again and same thing. The network card can ping itself but it cannot ping the local gateway so forget about the Internet. PLEASE HELP!! The problem was with the card's MAC address. Read here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1398988 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208770-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1559897 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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