NiNshiM Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 Hello everyone, I recently installed iPC 10.5.6 final in my machine, the instalation went pretty well, but it doesn't boot for nothing in this world. The only bootloader I got it working with is EFI from EasyBCD 2.0.2, none of the other ones work. But it doesn't actually boot into the OS itself. First I get a purple screen with a strange green creature on top telling me to press F8 and choose the partition to boot, when I choose the MAC OSX partition, nothing happens. The partition choices disappear, the screen stays purple with that stange creature on top and nothing happens. What am I doing wrong, can anyone explain me please? In case you ask, my specs are: Motherboard: ASRock ConRoe1333-DVI/H Processor: DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E6750, 2633 MHz (8 x 329) Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT RAM: Kingston 9905316-005.A04LF (I think that's it) Sound Card: Realtek ALC888 @ Intel 82801GB ICH7 - High Definition Audio Controller [A-1] PCI Network Card: Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.20 Cheers, NiNshiM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiNshiM Posted December 1, 2010 Author Share Posted December 1, 2010 Come on guys, 11 views and no replies. I'm sure many of you know more than me, don't you have no idea what my problem is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Come on guys, 11 views and no replies. I'm sure many of you know more than me, don't you have no idea what my problem is? Probably because many of us have had enough of dealing with iPC problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiNshiM Posted December 1, 2010 Author Share Posted December 1, 2010 Probably because many of us have had enough of dealing with iPC problems. Well, I chose iPC because the tutorial I was following said it was more complete than the others in terms of drivers, I don't know weather if it's true or not, but I had to choose one. What do you suggest I install based on my specs? Would my problem vanish if I installed a different flavour? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefe Hobs Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 why did u use the old IPC leopard i think a newer snow disti where the better option for u hardware . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Well, I chose iPC because the tutorial I was following said it was more complete than the others in terms of drivers, I don't know weather if it's true or not, but I had to choose one. What do you suggest I install based on my specs? Would my problem vanish if I installed a different flavour? I don't know what tutorial you were reading. iPC was created by a 13 years old (or was he 12?). But anyway, as Stefe Hobs said, that is not the point. Normally there is no such thing as "best distro based on my specs", but you want a good, recent distro, such as Snow Leopard by Hazard or iAtkos S3 V2. Or, even better, a retail install, the "new way". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Or, even better, a retail install, the "new way". LOL, it's funny that after two years it's still the new way and all the noobs keep using distros. Speaking as someone who find enjoyment and personal satisfaction in figuring out things (!) distros are good as a learning experience and as a jumping point to install retail. If you can boot and install a distro like iPC you can use it to find out which patches and fixes you need to run retail on the hardware you're working with. In the end you can use it to restore the retail DVD onto your hard drive and experiment with boot configurations until you can boot retail. I actually liked iPC 10.5.6 final since it's very close to retail, apart from the missing stuff of course. And it has a huge selection of patched drivers on it too. As long as your PC hardware is not too modern (too new to be supported by an old distro DVD) and able to run OS X at all you can probably install iPC 10.5.6 on it as long as you know which patches to pick..and not to pick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 LOL, it's funny that after two years it's still the new way and all the noobs keep using distros. That is why I put "new way" in inverted commas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiNshiM Posted December 2, 2010 Author Share Posted December 2, 2010 I don't know what tutorial you were reading. iPC was created by a 13 years old (or was he 12?). But anyway, as Stefe Hobs said, that is not the point. Normally there is no such thing as "best distro based on my specs", but you want a good, recent distro, such as Snow Leopard by Hazard or iAtkos S3 V2. Or, even better, a retail install, the "new way". Actually I finished burning iDeneb 1.6 10.5.8 Lite Version before I saw your reply. But as I didn't want to download iAtkos and waste another DVD, I just installed the iDeneb I downloaded. The instalation went pretty well, I selected the drivers I needed but I've got another problem booting. I passed through that purple screen I told you about by selecting MBR bootloader in EasyBCD, but now I've got a gray screen with the apple and the loading circle. I get stuck in this loading screen, it seems to be loading forever, nothing happens besides the circle going around, and I don't really know what's going on, what's loading, because I don't have the console there. What should I do at this point? Can I just wait like 1 hour or so, and it will finally boot? Is it possible to enter verbose mode in order to see the console when booting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Is it possible to enter verbose mode in order to see the console when booting? Yes, do that. Boot with -v and show us the outcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkGrimm Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 When you select Mac OS X, press F8 really fast and type "-v" where "boot:" is. Then press enter and it will boot in verbose mode. When you see it stops booting for some reason, take a picture and post it here. We can most-likely determine the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiNshiM Posted December 3, 2010 Author Share Posted December 3, 2010 I successfully booted into MAC OSX, but I could only do it booting form the DVD with the parameters "rd=disk0s2 cpus=1 -v". I have no luck booting it normally, the problem I described persists. Once I got in I noticed many stuff not working like the sound (I'm using headphones), the resolution couldn't be set to something higher than 1024x768 and my USB Wireless Adapter wasn't recognized (it's quite old though). I likely may have to patch the whole system to put all things in order, so could you give me some guides on how can I do this? And also I've heard that Chameleon is better than EasyBCD to manage the boots, could it make my booting problem vanish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Once I got in I noticed many stuff not working like the sound (I'm using headphones), the resolution couldn't be set to something higher than 1024x768 and my USB Wireless Adapter wasn't recognized (it's quite old though). This is normal. Find, download and install drivers for your hardware. Good Luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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