vie Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Hello, all, This is my virgin insanelymac post I am tired of viruses and trojans in windows on my PC after using my ibook for 2 years. Recently I find we have OSX86! this is AWEEEEEESome! Yestoday morning uphuck released it's 1.4 amd install dvd. However, it seems there is some problem with my home build PC: after "press any key to install ..." a gray apple logo shows up w/ a waiting circle (you know what I mean); but it seems the DVD drive is not running and after about 2 minutes, a "stop sign" (is it? ) like symbol shows up and then seems goes for ever , well, at least several minutes and CPU temp. keep hiking up... is this normal? How long would it usually take to the actual install UI? I guess I have some hardware compatibility issue here. a JMicron IDE controller? Here is my hardware info: ASUS M2NPV-VM Mobo: NF430 + GF6150 AMD Athlon X2 3800+ DDR2 667 1G x2 Seagate PATA 80G Master + Maxtor PATA 160G Slave ASUS DRW-1612 BLK 1.10 OnBoard DVI 6150 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squeeks Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 the stop sign isnt normal, that means its not working...check the wiki at osx86project.org to see if there is some info there about what you're using Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rerven Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 where did you find uphuck 1.4a ??? Could you post a downloading link here ? Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vie Posted August 1, 2007 Author Share Posted August 1, 2007 where did you find uphuck 1.4a ??? Could you post a downloading link here ? Thanks ! That's illegal, my friends. Try look at the sticky posts. Maybe i should try Jas 10.4.8, ... another several torrent days ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aku Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 solution is really simple.. just boot off the dvd and at the boot prompt issue '-v' for verbose.. and it'll work correctly... specially wat all do i have to select from the kernel sub menu.. i only selected intel sse2 patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vie Posted August 1, 2007 Author Share Posted August 1, 2007 solution is really simple.. just boot off the dvd and at the boot prompt issue '-v' for verbose.. and it'll work correctly...specially wat all do i have to select from the kernel sub menu.. i only selected intel sse2 patch Thanks for reminding me "-v" option. It turns out that I have the common "SAM Multimedia: read or write failed" error. I re-burned another 2 dvd, but no luck. So it seems I need to burn it at lower speed. My K3b can not change burning speed, wired (indicating bad burner or DMA failed). I will try another machine. will report later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vie Posted August 1, 2007 Author Share Posted August 1, 2007 After burning another dvd at school, still no lcuk. I find it's not a media issue. Then I noticed a "IDE channel 1 no 80 connector cable installed" in the BIOS screen. So M2NPV-VM is using a 40 connector CD-ROM cable. This reminds me lots of my DVD-RW drive related issues!! After change the cable, the installtion went through, w/ a MACH reboot error in the end. I reset the machine, then it boots into OSX. Played a little while. Looks glossy. Unfortunately, MacVidia 1.0.8.1 seems not working. And now my OSX is dead. Did not get chance to try forcedeth network kext. Here is some references I find useful: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=30105 It seems OSX86 is still far from usable to me. After 4 days of great expectation, and 2 days of hussel installing, maybe I have to say goodbye here. Thanks, guys! Hope it will become better and better, some day I might come back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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