Trouble Installing Leopard on AMD

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Hey people,

 

First, I know that retail installs are becoming the way to go, but I've also heard that patched versions tend to be more compatible, especially with AMD setups, so that's the route I've taken so far. Should I go retail? I'm trying with iPC 10.5.6 mainly, as that was successful on my Intel laptop. Here's my setup:

 

Mobo: ASrock a780gmh/128m bios v. p1.50

CPU: AMD Phenom II X2 550 BE (64bit)

RAM: 4 GB

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4850

HDs: 1 IDE & 2 SATA drives

DVD: 1 IDE drive

I've disabled my SATA drives by disabling the controller in the BIOS, so now I only have my primary IDE hard drive (set as slave) and IDE dvd drive (set as master). I've tried the other way around with the jumper settings to no avail.

 

I guess first question is what should rd=diskX point to? harddrive or dvd?

 

I can't get 5 seconds into booting the install disc. The error changes based on the boot flags I put in.

 

With "-v -x busratio=15 cpus=1" I get:

I/O error: disk1s2
SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed
and a KP: kernel trap at 0x003b85d1 type 14

disk1s2 is the DVD drive.... apparently that's what it is defaulting to, is that what it should be?

 

With "-v -x busratio=15 cpus=1 rd=disk0" I get:

Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI@180000/AppleACPIPCI/IDEC@14,1/AppleVIAATARoot/SECD@1/AppleVIAATADriver/ATADeviceNub@1/AppleATADiskDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/IC36L120AVV207-1
BSD root: disk0, major 14, minor 0
nfs_boot: networking is not initialized
then kp: nfs_boot_init failed with 6

This is the model number of my hard drive; I feel like because it is recognizing the model of my hard drive that it isn't a driver problem....

 

I get basically the same thing as the first error message with "-v -x busratio=15 cpus=1 rd=disk1"

 

I've also tried iDeneb 1.6 lite and Kalyway 10.5.2 with similar results.

 

Any ideas???