iPC shutdown during installation

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I am trying to install iPC 10.5.6 Final on my pc, but whenever I boot it, it loads a few things, the last thing it says is hard to see because it reboots so fast, but it's something with a bunch of numbers and then "buffer" then more numbers then "header," or maybe it's the other way around, doesn't matter too much. The flags I have tried are:

-v -x -f rd=disk0s1 platform=ACPI|X86PC

but nothing helps. This is for a sata hd using an nforce chipset on an Acer motherboard with bios R01-B4. My dvd drive is also sata.

Here is a small part of a gigantic cpuz report:

 

Processors

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Number of processors 1

Number of threads 2

 

APICs

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Processor 0

-- Core 0

-- Thread 0 0

-- Core 1

-- Thread 0 1

Processor 1 ID = 0

Number of cores 2 (max 2)

Number of threads 2 (max 2)

Name Intel Pentium E2180

Codename Conroe

Specification Intel� Pentium� Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz

 

 

Chipset

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Northbridge NVIDIA GeForce 7050 rev. A2

Southbridge NVIDIA nForce 620i rev. A2

Graphic Interface PCI-Express

PCI-E Link Width x16

PCI-E Max Link Width x16

Memory Type DDR2

Memory Size 3072 MBytes

Channels Single

Memory Frequency 333.3 MHz (3:5)

Monitoring

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Mainboard Model MCP73VE (0x000001E5 - 0x005FE105)

DMI

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DMI BIOS

vendor American Megatrends Inc.

version R01-B4

date 09/11/2008

 

DMI System Information

manufacturer ACER

product Aspire M1641

version R01-B4

serial PTSB30X0078270298D2700

UUID 001D9299-763B2008-07011724-20000000

 

DMI Baseboard

vendor ACER

model MCP73VE

revision NVIDIA MCP73

serial 000000000

Graphics

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Number of adapters 1

 

Graphic APIs

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

API NVIDIA NVAPI

API NVIDIA I/O

 

Display Adapters

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Display adapter 0

Manuf. API index 0

Display name \\.\DISPLAY1

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

Revision A2

Codename G92

Technology 65 nm

Memory size 1024 MB

Memory type GDDR3

Memory bus width 256 bits

PCI device bus 2 (0x2), device 0 (0x0), function 0 (0x0)

Vendor ID 0x10DE (0x1682)

Model ID 0x0615 (0x2601)

Performance Level 3D Applications

Hopefully I didn't leave out anything necessary - the report was huge.

PLEASE HELP ME, I've been trying to get os x on this stupid thing for almost a year now.

 

ALTERNATIVELY, when I use other distros such as Kalyway I get the "still waiting for root device" error. I read that this is related to the chipset kext, and the kalyway has the nforceata kext that my chipset would need, so I'm not sure what to do. I did find an nforce kext on here that SPECIFICALLY lists my sata controller as being compatible, but the only way to add kexts to kalyway is with another mac, which i don't have...

 

please help me :*(

 

Edit: For any admins that come across this post, I think you should lower the minimum posts requirement for making a new topic (maybe 3 would do it).