Disk errors when booting to install disk

[Guest jkbc]

Hello everyone. I've been lurking for some time and have played with installs before on essentially incompatible hardware. I finally took the plunge over the weekend and did my research, buying compatible hardware. It's listed in my profile but for ease, here it is again:

 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3

CPU: Intel Core i3-550

Graphics: HIS ATI Radeon HD 5750

RAM: 2x2GB ADATA DDR 1600G

HDD: 2x2TB WD Caviar Green, 640GB WD Caviar Green

SSD: 120GB Vertex Turbo

NOTE: I tried each drive independently, that is I would have the target drive plugged into SATA_0 and the optical drive plugged into SATA_1 with nothing else.

 

I'm encountering an error when I use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to attempt to install OS X 10.6. I booted with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], removed the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] disk, inserted my OS X 10.6 install disc, pressed F5 and then selected that disc. I noticed I was hanging at the white Apple logo screen. So I rebooted and did the same process with various switches, outlined below in the order performed:

 

-x

-x -v

-x -v -PCIRootUID=1

 

Each time I would get the same grouping of errors. The ones reproduced below are from my third attempt at booting with the PCIRootUID switch but the same errors appeared without the switch.

 

Code:

disk2: ioctl(_IOR,'d',79,4) is unsupported.

Creating RAM Disk for /var/tmp

Initialized /dev/rdisk3 as a 512 KB HFS Plus volume

disk3: ioctl(_IOR,'d',79,4) is unsupported.

Creating RAM Disk for /var/run

Initialized /dev/rdisk4 as a 512 KB HFS Plus volume

disk4: ioctl(_IOR,'d',79,4) is unsupported.

Creating RAM Disk for /var/db

Initialized /dev/rdisk5 as a 512 KB HFS Plus volume

disk5: ioctl(_IOR,'d',79,4) is unsupported.

 

 

This eventually gave way to another error:

 

Code:

SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x03, ASC = 0x1, ASCQ = 0x05

disk1s3: I/O error.

 

 

Some googling and searching of these forums led me to a few potential solutions such as the PCIRootUID=1 switch. Unfortunately the quality of search results seems to have run out (one is also in Cyrillic, which unfortunately I'm behind on my Eastern European languages). Kakewalk looks interesting but unfortunately I do not have a pre-existing OS X machine from which to make the ISO required. I only have an Ubuntu machine at my disposal at this time.

 

Any suggestions would be welcome. Please feel free to ask any questions and I will answer them as quickly and truthfully as possible.

 

Thank you in advance for all the hard work by the community and for any insight you may provide.