Leopard for MSI 770-C45

[Sumanitu Taka Nagi]

Hey there, I know you guys probably get a million of these a day but I could really use some help.

 

I decided to take a whack at isntalling Leopard on my desktop again. I went and sniffed out a install disc which is

 

iATKOSv7 and it has Mac OS x 10.5.7 on it

 

I have an MSI motherboard which is a 770-C45 which is for AMD phenom processors

 

My particular processor is an AMD Phenom II x4 945

 

my graphics card is an AMD ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

 

My memory is 4 GB of DDR3 Ram

 

I'm just posting this as i install it now because I ahve no idea what driver options to install becuase i'm not too experienced with mac, i'm willing to learn but I can'tlearn until i get it isntalled :3

 

So i'm sure to get plenty of errors before it runs on my machine.

 

thanks to anyone who takes the time to read it and hugs and love to anyone who replies. every little bit gets me closer to Mac :3

 

Well that's an ominous start, couldn't even start the installer ebcause out of my two ahrd drives it only shows up one in the Disc Utility, the one that I don't want to install on.

on it, for now I wnat to leave windows 7 alone and install mac on the seperate hard drive

I ahve two hard drives internally connected, one is 120GB and the other is 160 GB with windows 7

[Sumanitu Taka Nagi]

Hmm, let's see...I'll give free hugs to whoever helps me through this issue

[Sumanitu Taka Nagi]

Okay I got a little further but I could still use some help from someone, it would be greatly appreciated. Here, I'll throw in the free hugs plus a thank you to anyone who helps me out :3

 

What I found out is that by turning on Integrated Peri-hrials>Raid Mode>ACHI from IDE it allowed my hard drive to be detected in the installation so I was able to go ahead and install Leopard

 

However I had issues actually running the OS, I was able to select my hard drive on power up and the cheamleon bootlaoder popped up and it started to load the OS but on the next screen when it shows the grays creen with the gray apple in the center it just ahngs for all eternity. I tried it a few times and got the same thing.

 

So if someone could help me get beyond this point I'd be happy thanks.

 

Aw {censored} I just gave out that thanks for free. Now I have less leverage.

[Markrtoon]

xD That's alright, we'll get you squared away! Alright, I'm only 13, as far as that hug thing , but I wouldn't mind, as far as your prob, You're just having trouble booting or getting the rest of your hardware to work, or both, on the boot front, try and hit -v, see what the last thing is before the boot hangs. If it doesn't boot from -v, try any of these commands.

 

Type "-s"

Then, after it finishes booting, type "/sbin/fsck -fy"

Then, "/sbin/mount -uw /"

Sorry if that's wrong, doing this from memory.

And finally type "exit".

 

And then there is also -x -v, which will start you up in verbose safe mode.

 

BTW, how old are you??! Your avatar looks weird...

[Sumanitu Taka Nagi]

That's because I AM weird :3

 

I'm 23, I've got a decade on you, hehe. No worries hugs shouldn't evoke Amber Alerts, but if you don't want them I'll just put them back in the cubbord for another time.

 

As far as the commands go, when exactly would I type these commands. Sorry if that sounds like a dumb question but as soon as I select which hard drive for my computer to boot from cameleon pops up and it automatically starts loading. I'm guessing there is a key combination I can press to interrupt it and pop up a command line or something like that?

 

 

 

I'll try guessing in the meantime and hopefully won't hit a self destruct command.

 

Okay I figured it out on how to pass it boot parameters

 

so far i've tried using the verbos flag -v and it boots with a screen of text flying at a million meters per second then it stops displaying text and just hangs on a black screen...kinda defeats the point of verbos mode x3

 

So i'm going to go ahead and try it in safe mode like you suggested which according to the help file is -x not =s

 

 

 

Okay so far i've passed it the three arguements you asked

 

-v forberbos

 

-s

 

and

 

-x -v for verbos and safe mode

 

So far they all give about the same result, it starts to boot and then after a little while it hangs before it finishes in a position where there is no text feedback to read at the point wher eit froze

[Markrtoon]

xD I'll take the hugs! Ms.Decade.

 

You would hit first the F8 key, if you're booting the distro from cd, but if it's already installed on the HD, then you can just hit any key, to stop the boot, as chameleon comes up, and then type in your arguments.

 

Try:

cpus=1 busratio=20 -v -x

 

And then if that doesn't work, I've found 2 forums, you might wanna look at!

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t=#entry1413624

AND:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversi...hp/t213366.html

[Sumanitu Taka Nagi]

I looked at the links in those two forums you showed me but I'm not really sure what it is you're trying to point out.

 

in the first link it seems overall it shows tthat I should try what you already suggested booting with

 

busratio=20 cpus=1 -v -x

 

And the second relates to snow leopard not leopard

 

though as a side note about the second link, i have read that forum in the past and tried following it on my own but failed miserably, I could never even boot the DVD so that i could install in the first place. that's why I decided to try installing this instead.

[Markrtoon]

WOW and yea, I was pointing out using those boot parameters, sorry if I wasn't being clear enough. Is Leopard installed right now, and if so, what are your biggest problems?

[cyberghoser1]

Since you have an AMD CPU did you choose the right kernel for it? What did you select upon customize screen? Give more informations ;-)

[Sumanitu Taka Nagi]

I probably did not select the right kernel and a lot of incorrect choices for drivers and aptches. That's where I was trying to get help at intially ebcaue that's where my inexperience shows.

 

The only patches I marked in addition to what is default is I clicked the ACHI patch since I have to use ACHI to boot the DVD it just sounded like it would be necessary, and I slected ATI HD patch since I have an ATI HD graphics card :3, everything else was stock.

 

And, yeah it's installed on the Hard drive, I'm just not able to get into it when it hangs on just after the chameleon.

[cyberghoser1]

I guess its a kernel panic, you have to select a kernel suitable for your AMD CPU.

[Sumanitu Taka Nagi]

Isn't that the sort of thing that usually gets displayed in verbos mode?

[Sumanitu Taka Nagi]

Okay, well i went ahead and reinstalled leopard and this time I added a kernel patch with the few options i choose so my options in addition to the default options ended up being

 

x86 patches>Kernel>9.5 Voodoo Kernel

Drivers>VGA>ATI>ATI HD

Drivers>SATA/IDE>ACHI

 

With those install options it seems like i've had a little more luck but I can only guess at what's going on now...I've tried using several different boot arguements and each time I get similar results

 

It'll load up the chameleon boot loader after select my boot up hard drive, then the gray apple screen will come upa nd it will load for a while and then for a split second after the grey screen is done i'll see a blue background and then the signal in my monitors go away, but occasionally I can hear loading off the hard drive so i know it isn't hanging.

 

I'm guessing that it doesn't like my monitor or graphics card to start off and there is something i need to configure in order to fix it so i can see my OS?

 

I've tried these boot arguements so far

 

-v for verbos

-x fr safe mode

-v -x for verbos and safe mode

cpus=1 busratio=20

cpus=1 busratio=20 -v -x

 

all give the similar result give or take the verbos of course

[cyberghoser1]

You got 4GB RAM, some people say that sometimes its better to only have 2gb of ram when installing, there is a kext that does the trick if im not wrong, can't remember right now, check again about your graphic card driver upon customize screen, try to not select it and boot like that to see if you reach the dekstop, then install the driver afterward

[Sumanitu Taka Nagi]

Whee i got to the desktop this time, now to see what's not working and get to troubleshootingg stuffs lol

 

i had to use safe mode to get in otherwise it starts making this awful cryptic noise static halfway through the gray apple screen

[Markrtoon]

YAY! And that noise is prob from audio drivers.

[cyberghoser1]

You're almost there, keep trial and error, take note of what you did install, did not choose etc...this way you will succeed and new installations will be easier.

[Sumanitu Taka Nagi]

So how do I safely processed from here, I imagine from here I go about trying to get drivers on the OS...I could try the drivers on the instllation CD, but I have a concerna bout that,

 

Just like the ATI driver was screwing up my computer form ebing able to proceed when I installed with it, how can i install drivers and then uninstall them if they mess up the installation,

 

Is the only way to proceed to install over and over until I find the amgic combination that makes all my ahrdware work perfectly?

 

What should I do about my computer only being able to boot in safe mode?

[cyberghoser1]

Well you know, its hard to get a native osx supported system unless it's a real mac , but you have to see what hardware is compatible in the osx86 database, see what hardware is not, you have to search deep in the forums to find available drivers,patches etc, i have two hackintoshes right now and that didnt happen in few hours, i had to try many dstros, patches, fixes, reboots, kernel panics, this is all about experiment, take the plunge and hopefully you will know what is ok and what not, i cannot advise you more since i don't own the mobo you have, but keep trying, if you install bad drivers you can always start in single user mode and delete the extensions and cache and start over, but best thing is to take notes, keep a trace of what you are doing, because it can really fast become a mess, so just be organized, sometimes it will not work, not all the hardware is compatible. Good luck!

[Markrtoon]

Try this, it's a utility that will check if your hardware is compatible with Mac OS X.

 

http://cl.ly/242y0g0t1o2I3q1g1U1M

 

Open it, and let it scan your hardware, and then click "Check Hardware Compatibility" from the File menu at the top.