Asus A8V-VM

[scotsdezmond]

(apologies for wall of text, trying to provide as much useful information as possible )

 

Hi folks,

 

I've recently attempted to install Hazard 10.6.2 onto my old desktop system. I've had a fair amount of success with it, but am currently having some problems with the SATA drive to which I've installed OS X.

 

As a dry run, I installed 10.6 to a usb pen drive, and it worked, albeit slowly. On changing SATA mode to AHCI in the BIOS, I was able to see my existing 250GB Windows drive. Groovy.

 

So I did a fresh install today on the new 1tb drive, formatted as detailed below. However, when the drive is connected via the internal SATA connections (any channel), the setup hangs after a short time accessing the disk. (Either during formatting, or shortly into the install - just at the first 'Extracting files' stage according to the install logs)

 

I know it's not a physical disk issue, as I have been successful installing using the same drive in a USB enclosure in the same system, and have been able to get the system (mostly) operational. However, even with this working setup, if I move the hard drive back inside the system and connect via SATA, the boot process hangs a short way into startup (immediately after determining where the system is booting from, as a matter of fact).

 

The hazard install has a few options that can be selected which claim to be SATA fixes (AHCI SATA Fix, Legacy SATA Fix, IOATAFamily Fix, IOATAFamily SATA Fix Extra/Extensions) - I've tried installing with the first 3 selected (the last one has a note saying not to use when making use of VIA kexts, so I've not selected it) but to no avail.

 

I've also tried removing my other SATA drive, but this made no difference. I've also been searching for information, but most of the info I've turned up refers to Tiger installs and I don't know how much of that is relevant to Snow Leopard.

 

Thanks for reading, anyone got any suggestions?

 

My specs are as follows:-

10.6.2 Hazard (using legacy kernel 10.6.2, combo update to 10.6.2)

Chameleon RC4 (originally RC2 as installed by hazard)

Athlon X2 4200+

Asus A8V-VM motherboard (southbridge is VIA VT8237A)

Geforce GT 240 1GB

Audigy 4

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB drive (GPT; 200GB HFS+ journaled partition, rest is free space)

[scotsdezmond]

Update - I was an idiot, and noted the incorrect southbridge model. It's actually a VIA VT8251. So, I followed the instructions at this link: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21908 , and I can now boot from the drive! I can't see the windows drive on the other sata channel, but I'll take it for a working system