xbxhkz Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 I have an Acer Aspire 7736Z-4088 that I cant get to boot the new iAtkos S3 V2 dvd on. I have tried all the combinations of -v, -f, -x, cpus=1, and cpus=2 and still it wont finish booting to the install menu. Here are my system specs: Intel T4400 Dual Core CPU GL40 Express chipset 4Gb DDR2-667 RAM Intel GMA 4500M video chipset 320Gb 3.0Gbs SATA HDD 8x Dual-Layer DVD writer 3-in-1 Media card reader Intel HDA audio Crystal Eye web cam Atheros AR5009 wifi Broadcom BCM5784M ethernet Im not sure if you will need anything else. I will get pics of the screen s soon as I can to post them. Does anyone have any idea why the DVD wouldnt finish booting or any other boot options I can try?? I would even go to any regular Leopard distro if Snow Leopard happens to not be an option. Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyjunta Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 I'm upping this thread since I'm having the same issue. Boot won't load anything. The only thing I've tried of all the boot flags is -v. I get 4 lines instead of nothing... and it freezes again after that. I'm also curious to know if a regular Leopard install will do the trick or if there is something else going on. I tried the same cd on another computer (Core 2 Duo) and it loads up, it gets a kernel panic but at least it gets farther (it doesn't really matter since I won't be installing on that computer) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdrk Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 You may want to double check that the discs have burned correctly. Also psyjunta, what is your processor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
14irahtom Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I'm not sure how much I might be able to help but :- 1. Try enabling AHCI in your BIOS if you already haven't. 2. Try booting with the bootflag "arch=i386" without quotes of course. 3. Search for your motherboard on the forum and research what you need to do. By the way cmdrk, I see in your signature that you have an Asus G50. Did you by any chance try to install snow leopard on it? We have identical specs and it runs great. I'm dual booting snow leopard and windows 7 on the same drive. Give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbxhkz Posted August 18, 2010 Author Share Posted August 18, 2010 I'm not sure how much I might be able to help but :- 1. Try enabling AHCI in your BIOS if you already haven't. 2. Try booting with the bootflag "arch=i386" without quotes of course. 3. Search for your motherboard on the forum and research what you need to do. By the way cmdrk, I see in your signature that you have an Asus G50. Did you by any chance try to install snow leopard on it? We have identical specs and it runs great. I'm dual booting snow leopard and windows 7 on the same drive. Give it a try. I have AHCI enabled, and I got it to work. I think the issue was not having the "arch=i386" flag enabled. Here are the flags I used: -v -f cpus=2 arch=i386 Now I am going to try to install and see what happens. If I have problems I'll repost, and if its a success I will post how I got it to work for others. Thanks Rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbxhkz Posted August 18, 2010 Author Share Posted August 18, 2010 I have AHCI enabled, and I got it to work. I think the issue was not having the "arch=i386" flag enabled. Here are the flags I used: -v -f cpus=2 arch=i386 Now I am going to try to install and see what happens. If I have problems I'll repost, and if its a success I will post how I got it to work for others. Thanks Rock Well apparently getting the dvd to boot is hit and miss. Half the time it doesnt boot, 1/4 the time it boots but the trackpad and usb mouse doesnt work, and 1/4 of the time they do work. I have tried installing iAtkos S3 v2 and it gives me a boot 0 error or something like that, so I attempted to install one of the boot loaders to the primary disk (disk0) and (disk0s1) but it cannot mount the dusks to do so for some reason. Anyone have any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbxhkz Posted August 18, 2010 Author Share Posted August 18, 2010 Well apparently getting the dvd to boot is hit and miss. Half the time it doesnt boot, 1/4 the time it boots but the trackpad and usb mouse doesnt work, and 1/4 of the time they do work. I have tried installing iAtkos S3 v2 and it gives me a boot 0 error or something like that, so I attempted to install one of the boot loaders to the primary disk (disk0) and (disk0s1) but it cannot mount the dusks to do so for some reason. Anyone have any ideas? Ok, found out something strange. I reinstalled my Linux distro and in the grub menu are 2 new entries:it OSX 32 bit OSX 64 bit Now when I try to run the 32 bit OSX it freezes, and when I try the 64 bit it says no kernel loaded a few times. Here is the strange part, if I try to load the 64 bit and return to the grub menu and load the 32 bit bit OSX it boots, but now I have an issue where it is saying there is no keyboard found, but my usb mouse works. So apprently when I installed I needed a specific kext to get my laptop keyboard to be recognized. Does anyone know where I can get the proper kext I need and weather or not I can replace the kext using my linux distro, then maybe use the disk to repair permissions, or which kext/driver I need from the disk to get my keyboard to work???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m.catamount Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 I have an Acer Aspire 7736Z-4088 that I cant get to boot the new iAtkos S3 V2 dvd on. I have tried all the combinations of -v, -f, -x, cpus=1, and cpus=2 and still it wont finish booting to the install menu. Here are my system specs: Intel T4400 Dual Core CPU GL40 Express chipset 4Gb DDR2-667 RAM Intel GMA 4500M video chipset 320Gb 3.0Gbs SATA HDD 8x Dual-Layer DVD writer 3-in-1 Media card reader Intel HDA audio Crystal Eye web cam Atheros AR5009 wifi Broadcom BCM5784M ethernet Im not sure if you will need anything else. I will get pics of the screen s soon as I can to post them. Does anyone have any idea why the DVD wouldnt finish booting or any other boot options I can try?? I would even go to any regular Leopard distro if Snow Leopard happens to not be an option. Thanks for your help. saaaaaaaaaaaaaame boat here, i get iatkos s3 v2 to boot to the apple logo the first time and it just dies right there. same laptop, same specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m.catamount Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 Actually can I get the 7736 users to post what what configs they installed with? i have the 7736z-4088 and I cant get S3v2 to install past 18 percent without freezing.. thanks in advance edit - the install stalls at 18 percent for about a hour then fails. Any ideas? Identical laptop and and osx86 copy as original poster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markrtoon Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 saaaaaaaaaaaaaame boat here, i get iatkos s3 v2 to boot to the apple logo the first time and it just dies right there. same laptop, same specs. Try -v at the startup prompt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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