Stop sign on the gray apple screen

[josephrave]

Hi Guys,

 

I desperately need your help

 

I've been trying to install a retail Mac 10.5.6 for two weeks already. I tried different kinds of boot loaders but I can't progress any further on a gray apple screen with a stop sign.

 

Here is my laptop specs:

 

Processor: Intel® Celeron Processor M900

(1 MB L2 cache, 2.2 GHz, 800 MHz FSB)

 

Chipset: SiS M672 + SiS 968

Memory: 2GB DDR2

upgradeable to 2GB with discard

 

Display Screen: 14.1" WXGA TFT LCD

(1280 x 800 pixel resolution)

 

Video Type: SiS Mirage 3+

Hard Disk:160 GB SATA HDD

Optical Drive: Built-in DVD-RW Multi-Drive

Weight 2.3 kg

Card Reader: 4-in-1 Card Reader

Operating System: Free DOS

Productivity Software: None

Network Interface: Built in 56k Modem, Built in 10/100 LAN

Wireless LAN: Integrated 802.11 b/g wireless LAN

WebCam: Neo Motion Eye 1.3 Megapixel

Battery: 6 Cells (2.0-3.0Hours battery life)

I/O Ports: 3 x USB, 1 x VGA port, Express Card 54 slot, S-video/TV-out (NTSC/PAL) port

 

 

Here are the boot loaders that I've tried:

asus_p5w-dh_boot-132.iso

BOOT-KABYL-BUMBY

ga-ep45-ds3r_boot132.iso

grub-dfe.iso

LegacyBootCD.iso

osx86svboot.iso

[josephrave]

After spending some time researching I have found something that might help me with this issue since no one seems to know a solution.

 

Thanks to Voyn1x of infinitemac

 

Here are the solutions that I found in his website:

 

Solution 1 - change drive to primary

 

The most common solution is making your OSX drive the primary IDE. Try disconnecting all the other hard drives, make the OSX drive IDE0, using either cable-select or Master jumper settings.

 

In some cases forced or strange IDE master/slave settings can cause problems. For instance, on one system setting the DVD drive via jumpers as the slave drive but attaching it as the only device to the end of the cable can cause this problem. Reconfiguring the drive to use cable select (it then chose to be the master drive) fixed the problem.

 

Solution 2 - specify the boot disk

 

Code: rd=diskXsY -v X and Y are just placeholders and need to be replaced with proper values. X is the disk number (on most systems installed to the first hard disk, this will be disk0) and Y the partition number.

 

Solution 3 - use an IDE drive

 

Use an IDE drive or alternatively try and patch the install dvd with the correct SATA chipset driver for your hardware.

 

Solution 4 - use a SATA optical drive

 

For newer Intel chipsets such as the 965 that do not natively support IDE (and use chips such as JMicron or Marvell), use a SATA optical drive.

 

Solution 5 - try different boot options

 

Code: platform=X86PC -v

 

platform=ACPI -v

 

-x -v

 

-f -v

[josephrave]

Guys the solutions that I've tried doesn't work any suggestion?