Much Needed Advice

Lanceomni · November 17, 2008

So I am starting from scratch and would like some advice.

Questions:

1. Which distro should I use? Or should I use the Kalyway distro I already know works and update?

2. Do the program crashes apear to be cause because of my AMD processor and are they correctable?

3. What is the best method for updating leopard on AMD platform

3. I want to dual boot Leopard and XP on separate drives (and I dont need to write to the XP volume from OSX) I have done this with Tiger but Leopard gives me problems. Does anyone know of an DUAL BOOT Leopard/XP separate drives AMD tut?

I recently installed Kalyway's 10.5.2 package, on the hardware listed below, without too many problems.

Where I was:

I had managed to get my graphics card fully supported, onboard audio worked in stereo, sata worked, Firewire worked fine.

I installed 90% of the software I use on my actual workstation. CS3, MS Office (All licensed copies)

Problems:

Certain programs will not run or crash. *EXAMPLE CRASH REPORT AT BOTTOM OF POST

-Epson 4870 Scanner driver crashes on install [uPDATE] Fixed after 10.5.5 upgrade & Voodoo kernel 9.5

-Final Cut gets preflight error on install [uPDATE] Fixed after 10.5.5 upgrade & Voodoo kernel 9.5

-Color calibration software Eye-One crashes on install [uPDATE] Fixed after 10.5.5 upgrade & Voodoo...

Onboard LAN unsupported (I purchased a Netgear ethernet card) [uPDATE] nForce drivers available

4GB of memory crashes when I use over 3.5. (Fixed with maxmem on boot) [uPDATE] Slashack's fix works

Onboard RAID did not work.

What happened:

I wanted to update to 10.5.4 as I hear Voodo_Beta2 kernel fixes some issues related to AMD So I downloaded Zephyroth's ASU and bricked my machine. I was a bit foolish as I probobly should have done a little more research and updates to 10.5.3 then 10.5.4. [uPDATE] I updated the Kernel first and then used Zeph's ASU to pull-n-patch the combo 10.5.5. update

My Goal:

To Dual Boot XP with Leopard as Default and be able to install FCP and the drivers to my scanner. I would be completely happy at that point. I would be exceptionally happy to get my on board LAN & RAID working but im not holding my breath

My Box:

MOBO: Asus M2N SLI Deluxe

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 5000 X2

RAM: Corsair XMS2 DDR-800 1gb x4 (4gb)

GRAPHICS: PNY 7600GT 256mb (VCG7600GXPB)

DRIVES: 1x WD 74gb Raptor SATA 1.5, 3x WD Caviar 80gb SATA 3, NEC DVD Burner (ND3550A), ASUS DVD ROM (E-616A2)

*Example Crash Report:

Epson Scanner Drivers

Log:

Process: EPSON Scan Installer [272]

Path: /Volumes/epson12092_pr48ph_twain_driver_and_epson_scan_utility_303a/EPSON Scan Installer

Identifier: com.MindVision.InstallerVISE

Version: 8.4 (Installer VISE 8.4

Code Type: PPC (Translated)

Parent Process: launchd [139]

Date/Time: 2008-11-06 17:36:51.225 -0500

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C7010)

Report Version: 6

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000

Crashed Thread: 0

Thread 0 Crashed:

0 translate 0xb81908fc 0xb8000000 + 1640700

1 ??? 0x8fe0e723 0 + 2413881123

2 ??? 0x8fe0e809 0 + 2413881353

3 ??? 0x8fe04102 0 + 2413838594

4 ??? 0x8fe07b5f 0 + 2413853535

5 ??? 0x8fe01872 0 + 2413828210

6 ??? 0x8fe01037 0 + 2413826103

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):

eax: 0x00000002 ebx: 0x8fe12d91 ecx: 0x8fe12e76 edx: 0x8fe2fc20

edi: 0x00000001 esi: 0xb8000334 ebp: 0xbfffe2d8 esp: 0xbfffe270

ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010293 eip: 0xb81908fc cs: 0x00000017

ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037

cr2: 0xffe2aa14

Binary Images:

0xb8000000 - 0xb81d7fe7 translate ??? (???) /usr/libexec/oah/translate

EYEONE Color Calibration Software

Console:

11/9/08 8:42:23 PM com.apple.launchd[148] ([0x0-0x82082].ch.gretagmacbeth.i1.EyeOneMatch[938]) Exited abnormally: Illegal instruction

Crash Report:

Eye-One crashes:

Process: Eye-One Match [938]

Path: /Applications/Eye-One Match 3/Eye-One Match.app/Contents/MacOS/Eye-One Match

Identifier: ch.gretagmacbeth.i1.EyeOneMatch