Wackintosh Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 I am trying to install 10.5.7 or 10.6 which I successfully installed on my laptop with lower specs. I constantly get kernel panics during installation. I tried several boot commands and only "-x -v" SUCCESSFULLY installs mac but when booting into it, I get the stop sign with grey apple logo screen. The specs are: Evga nforce 680i sli motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 Ghz 4 gig DDR2 ram (1gb x 4) 2 of Nvidia GeForce 7900 video cards Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/255735-please-help-cant-install-on-desktop-with-better-specs/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 10.5 and 10.6 do not support SLI. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/255735-please-help-cant-install-on-desktop-with-better-specs/#findComment-1675086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wackintosh Posted April 27, 2011 Author Share Posted April 27, 2011 I will try to take out a card, although I don't think this is SLI related since sli isn't automatically enabled. I wonder if taking off the sli bridge would make any difference or I'd have to take out the entire card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/255735-please-help-cant-install-on-desktop-with-better-specs/#findComment-1675098 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wackintosh Posted April 27, 2011 Author Share Posted April 27, 2011 The SLI wasn't the problem, I removed one card completely and got the same kernel panic for 10.5. Really makes no sense if I boot in safe mode with -x, the install is successful but the stop sign shows up when trying to boot in the gui. I read the documentation in the install cd that the stop sign means a bad driver was selected but i made sure none were selected and I'm getting the same problem. I took pictures of the panic from 10.5 and 10.6. It seems like 10.5 has to do with the kernel and 10.6 with the cpu. I have already tried cpus=1 with no success. Makes no sense that I can install both on my laptop with lower specs (can be seen in signature). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/255735-please-help-cant-install-on-desktop-with-better-specs/#findComment-1675112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Use google or the forum search to find verdant's nforce chipset guides. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/255735-please-help-cant-install-on-desktop-with-better-specs/#findComment-1676109 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wackintosh Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 I've got it working on a different distro. iATKOS was the problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/255735-please-help-cant-install-on-desktop-with-better-specs/#findComment-1677145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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