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Hi gang,

 

Firstly, a big thank you to Zephroth, for everything you do for the scene mate!

 

Secondly and admittedly this is probably the dumbest thing to ever do and then ask about later, but I installed Leopard on an Asus A8N-SLI (vanila) + Athlon64 4600 x2 & 4GB RAM almost perfectly. Once in Leopard, keen to experiment I thought I would install all the available Leopard update (force of habit, what with being a Windows user 'n all lol!) After the installs & reboot, if I try to click on anything the spinning beach ball thing loops forever with no result, and you cant do anything until you hard power down the PC via the power button on the unit.

 

Any ideas guys? Or has anyone also come across this and fallen into the trap like me?...

 

Cheers,

 

p.s. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! :(

 

You need to run Marvin's AMD utility. Usually I run this from my Tiger install (since you have noticed that things lock up sometimes when you update :D ). If you don't have another install then you can try and download the utility and run it.

 

Choose your Leopard Volume....Choose Create Patcher package.....Click Run. It will take a few minutes to run. When it is done it will create a folder on your desktop called AMD-something-something. Inside this folder you will find a patches folder. Drag that folder to your desktop. Reboot using the -s (single user) switch. When you get to the prompt there will be two commands listed on the screen that you should run:

 

/sbin/fsck -fy

/sbin/mount -uw /

 

run those. Then cd /Users/XXXXX/Desktop/patches and do this:

 

./patcher ./cpuid.txt

./replace.sh

 

Those two commands *should* fix everything. Now ask me if I have had to install from scratch after following my own instructions :D

 

I am now have all my updates and patches installed and so far it is very stable. But it did take a few tries. Good Luck!!

Edited by blubyu
Bonkey, the -x commands fixes the set up freeze :D (at least for me worked) maybe you could put it on the wiki page :) .

 

P.S : does anyone know a emulator program to run win programs on osx (something like wine, i need it because my internet conections requires an application)

 

Try crossover mac :D:D

No luck. It just don´t want to boot on my device. Bsd root: disks1s3 is the last row I get.

 

You have the mach_reboot problem. Revise the entire thread because it has been covered enough. Visit wiki.

Your machine reboots because you have a SSE2 processor and you need another kernel. Please search for info in this thread.

I am new to Mac OS X, and I m trying to install with file mentioned on the first page. I am getting an error approx 3-5 minutes in during the install process! In yellow " Install Failed" Mac OS X could not be installed on your computer The installer could not install some files in /Volumes/Untitled. I have read all 65 pages and have not seen this mentioned, Any help would be great. Thank you in advance!

 

rename you partition whitout spaces ex: "leopard" not "untitled 1". if you get the same error try the solution for the "about a minute left" problem http://osx86.wikidot.com

You have the mach_reboot problem. Revise the entire thread because it has been covered enough. Visit wiki.

Your machine reboots because you have a SSE2 processor and you need another kernel. Please search for info in this thread.

Ok! Thanks! Wiki.. hmm do you mean www.osx86.com? Or is there another wiki..

So i need to wipe the partition install osx.4 then upgrade that to osx.5? Jees this isnt just your spare couple of hours project is it.

 

maybe someone know solution to this problem i read thread from another forum and people got same problem but no one know how to fix this

 

what you need to do is install tiger after installation create account and update to leo

rename you partition whitout spaces ex: "leopard" not "untitled 1". if you get the same error try the solution for the "about a minute left" problem http://osx86.wikidot.com
Thanks Doix, I will be trying it later
Thanks Doix, I will be trying it later
DoiX, I have two things 1. my mouse and keyboard dont work at the install screen, so i have to plug in usb mouse but when i try my wired keyboard it doesnt work either! 2. what Volume format should I use. Thanks in advance and sorry for being such a noob!
Improvvisely, at the boot, mac tell me that "com.apple.Boot.plist" in /System/Preferences/SystemConfiguration there isn't. The fact is that file is there and I didn't modify it...

 

It's strange...

 

1st: the correct path to this file is /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration not "/System/Preferences/SystemConfiguration"

 

If the "com.apple.boot.plist" is there and the boot don't load it try:

 

sudo chmod -R 755 /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

sudo chown -R root:wheel /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

and repair permissions...

I have the exact same problem that DioX has, Ive tried reinstalling like three times. All on drives i named with no spaces, like "Mac" or something.

Everytime for me the installation hangs at somepoint near the end, I reboot to the dvd and "finish" the installation, but it always gives me a big fat error saying Instalation Failed at the end, and reboots. If i then hit f8 it only shows the dvd.

 

Bottom line:

Where is this "about a minute left problem fixer" that was mentioned? I cant seem to find it the thread, sorry.

 

mobo: Biostar 6100/754

Nforce430/410

AMD Athlon 64 3200

Seagate 160gig ultraATA HD

Nvidia 8600gt

 

P.S. I have had 10.4.10 installed on this drive before, so I know its not the drive or partition problem.

I have the exact same problem that DioX has, Ive tried reinstalling like three times. All on drives i named with no spaces, like "Mac" or something.

Everytime for me the installation hangs at somepoint near the end, I reboot to the dvd and "finish" the installation, but it always gives me a big fat error saying Instalation Failed at the end, and reboots. If i then hit f8 it only shows the dvd.

 

Bottom line:

Where is this "about a minute left problem fixer" that was mentioned? I cant seem to find it the thread, sorry.

 

mobo: Biostar 6100/754

Nforce430/410

AMD Athlon 64 3200

Seagate 160gig ultraATA HD

Nvidia 8600gt

 

P.S. I have had 10.4.10 installed on this drive before, so I know its not the drive or partition problem.

 

Ignore the error you get when you finish the install. The reason it boots to the dvd is because you haven't read any of the install instructions. You need to set your drive up to be bootable. Again, all the instructions to install this are on page 9 of this thread.

I need help. I went through the thread. Thought I could try installing leopard on my AMD but I'm stuck at Still waiting for root device. My HD is a sata 2 I believe but I thought I would install it onto my External USB drive just in case I miss up my whole system. Can someone instruct me what i need to do to install this onto a external drive?

 

thanks!

 

Spec:

ASUS M2A-VM HDMI AMD 690G + SB600 Socket AM2 M-ATX

AMD AM2 X2 Dual Core ADO4800+ DD CPU

Seagate 250.0GB ST3250410AS SATAII/16MB HDD

Any information on how to install if it won't recognize your hard drive yet?

 

Here is a link to my laptop's specs

http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/2007/T...14881Rsp2.shtml

 

chipset: RS690T

ATI SB600

 

HDD: 250 GB 5400 RPM SATA hard drive

2gb of ram

AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56

1.8 GHz | 512 KBx2 L2 Cache

This is a {censored} error and it caused me headaches :( . Finally it turn out that my dvd was scratched and i had to re-burn it at a lower speed.

 

EDIT:

The solutions has been added to the Wiki :)

 

 

I tried with burn in 2x speed, but still i am getting same error

SAM Multimedia: read or write failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x04, ASC =0x08, ASCQ=0x03

SAM Multimedia: read or write failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x04, ASC =0x08, ASCQ=0x03

SAM Multimedia: read or write failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x04, ASC =0x08, ASCQ=0x03

SAM Multimedia: read or write failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x04, ASC =0x08, ASCQ=0x03

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Still waiting for root device

 

any one please help me with this error :P

I got this working!! Wuhuu.. Clock is 5.15 am and I should start working at 8 am.. So its time to finally go to sleep.. =)

Glad to hear that!. Don't hesitate to visit wiki or query your problems here.

I tried with burn in 2x speed, but still i am getting same error

SAM Multimedia: read or write failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x04, ASC =0x08, ASCQ=0x03

SAM Multimedia: read or write failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x04, ASC =0x08, ASCQ=0x03

SAM Multimedia: read or write failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x04, ASC =0x08, ASCQ=0x03

SAM Multimedia: read or write failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x04, ASC =0x08, ASCQ=0x03

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Still waiting for root device

 

any one please help me with this error :)

 

mantogo, maybe it's a poor quality dvd or you dvd writer is screwed up, anyway try another dvd brand someting like verbatim/ sony etc

I've just made a mpkg for NVidia cards which supports 8600 (prolly 8400 too), I will add it to Rev.2 if you think it's useful.

 

- Info.plist of GeForce.kext contains all dev-id listed in this file.

 

- All kexts come from 10.5.2 beta

 

- It contains NVinject GO and NVinject GO 512 for LAPTOP

 

- NVinject is 0.2.0 (NVinject-32 and NVinject-64 are just here for fun, I don't even know if it's needed and if it works :) )

 

Download here

 

Works fantastic, i tried http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=78980 first

Didn't work had to remove all geforce kexts too boot, somewhat barely!!

Then i installed yours worked perfect can boot mac smoothly now and works on full resolution

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