CupofDice Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 I tried installing zephyroth yesterday, but failed. It wasn't able to partition my SATA. My question is what kexts do I need to partition my SATA drive. I am prett sure it is this, but I want to make sure. Also how do I inject the kexts with transmac? Specs- HP Pavilion a6230n PC Asus M2N68-LA Motherboard Nforce 430 3GB DDR2 SDRAM Nvidia GeForce 6150 SE Graphics Hitachi 400GB SATA Edit- Just opened my zephyroth iso with transmac (I am on Vista), and noticed that there isn't a Parition folder or a System folder. Just .fsevensd, .Spotlight-V100, .Trashes, .vol, Install Mac OS X.app, Instructions, and Optional Installs. This iso booted up just fine (no errors or anything) until I got to the partitioning part. Is this normal? Edit 2- I can see the iso fully with poweriso. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldinio Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Its just simply ATA/SATA/PATA Controller related problem.THERE is not a KEXT wich supports your ATA/SATA/PATA Controller on the Installer DVD only two ways to solve 1) go find KEXT (driver) for your ATA/SATA/PATA Controller and inject it to DVD (long time to do, need another mac, need to know how to) 2) easyest way is find kext for ATA/SATA/PATA Controller buy external enclosure USB2.0 to needed interface install it to HDD externaly connected inject kext to working installation plug the HDD back inside give external enclosure back to seller. (this should take cca. 5 hrs including way to shop) i made it second way with my notebook go to forum/hardware/drivers/NForce sata Controller http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=77071 i injected the ApplenForceAta kext into my cd with transmac on my vista and reburned, and it still doesnt find my drives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AEdgett77 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Ok I'm attempting to format my hard drive and there is no HFS+ format. So I just attempted to use Mac OS Extended (journaled) and it just gets stuck on Creating Partition Map. The HDD is SATA so I'm not sure if its just a hardware problem because its not SATA 2. If someone could help I would really appreciate it. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoiX Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 HOLLY...LOL hfs+ is mac osx extended.. doooh and if you want help pls POST YOUR DARN SPECS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AEdgett77 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Sorry I'm really new at this... so any idea why its taking so long to format... I could just be really impatient Amd athalon 64 3800+ dual core 2gb Ram DDR2 DIMM 160 Wd SATA hard drive 8800 gts nvidia gforce 640mb ASUS A8M2N-LA motherboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoiX Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 and your chipset is...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CupofDice Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 AEdgett77- The exact same thing happened to me. It popped up an error saying it failed after a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AEdgett77 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 AEdgett77- The exact same thing happened to me. It popped up an error saying it failed after a long time. ya i just waited it out and it gave me a 'timed out message' did you ever get it working? Chipset- GeForce 6150 LE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lag0matic Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 I would bet that your Sata hdd is giving you issues. I had the same problem on my leopard install. Eventually, I tossed in a 180gig IDE hdd that I had laying around, and viola.. it installed perfectly. The only issue with the OS now is the fact that my SATA dvd burner will not burn, much like being unable to write to a sata hdd. I can use the dvd drive, play movies, read disks, ect.. but when I burn it fails almost immdeiatly, and never writes anything to the disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CupofDice Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 This was yesterday, so I am still looking for a way to do it. A guy in irc said it could have been corrupt partition, or something like that. Though that doesn't sound exactly right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketwash Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Is Zeph still going to produce a new version with 10.5.2? Anyone know a release ETA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoiX Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 how about.... next damn year? just stop asking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicknowsky Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 how about.... next damn year? just stop asking and you are?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CupofDice Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Does anyone know how to get rid of the "still waiting for root device" error? This is on the disc that I used the updated AppleNForce.kext (MeDevil) on (I put it in /System/Library/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins-Was that right?). My other zephyroth disc which I did not inject that kext into boots up just fine (but I can't format my hd with hfs+). I have no ahci option in my bios to disable (someone in irc told me that may work). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketwash Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 and you are?????? Judging from the posts he's made in this thread, he's a bit of an ass. Zephyroth hasn't made a post since January 15th. If he's gone from the scene for some reason, this iso might be a project to pick up. Not having communicated with Zephyroth before, I don't know what's up. I'm definitely not going to start sending him private messages asking for an ETA. I expected someone else on this thread to be in touch with what's going on with rev. 2. However, if there's no word in a week then it will be time to private message. Now that I've asked after Apple released the code, DoiX can be a {censored} to people who repeat my question about a 10.5.2 updated iso. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zephyroth Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Don't worry, I'm not dead ... I'm working on Rev.2 (which is now 10.5.2 Rev.1) but I rarely check this forum now that there's one for Rev.1. -----> osx.kbot.de Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoiX Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Judging from the posts he's made in this thread, he's a bit of an ass. Zephyroth hasn't made a post since January 15th. If he's gone from the scene for some reason, this iso might be a project to pick up. Not having communicated with Zephyroth before, I don't know what's up. I'm definitely not going to start sending him private messages asking for an ETA. I expected someone else on this thread to be in touch with what's going on with rev. 2. However, if there's no word in a week then it will be time to private message. Now that I've asked after Apple released the code, DoiX can be a {censored} to people who repeat my question about a 10.5.2 updated iso. lol cool im an ass ) on osx.kbot.de there are at least 5 topics asking when zeph will release rev2 so yeah i had enough oh and if you read the last 10 pages (this topic) you will also see about of 20 guys asking when rev2 will be released oh and again thank YOU for calling me an ass and a {censored} ) you should remove the "bad words" from your post because they are not allowed(forum rules) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgsheen Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Martin953! how did u get leopard on your sb600 690 motheboard??? my disc wont even start up because of it! ive managed to get 10.4.10 installed on a usb hard drive with the sb600 patch but it kernel panics when booting tiger from the internal hd.howd u manage to get leopard installed on yours? Did you read his specs? 80GB IDE I can't figure out why you can't install 10.5.1 to an external HD - especially if Tiger installed... That's how I got 10.5.1 working on my 690G chipset MB. I didn't apply the SB600 .kexts until after the install was complete and I was in the OS X Desktop... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldinio Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 i hope rev2 will fix the nforce sata problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neocortexxx Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 i hope solve this problem http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=74227 someone know how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_cute Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 @Zephyroth/DoiX lol....That is a very good one!,lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coolin93 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 So would this work with an AMD 64 Athlon-X2 tk-53, its basically like the 3600+ model, 1 gig of ram, and a Nvidia GeForce Go 6100. My laptop sucks lol, I really hope it'll work on mine cause Leopard is awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicknowsky Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 So would this work with an AMD 64 Athlon-X2 tk-53, its basically like the 3600+ model, 1 gig of ram, and a Nvidia GeForce Go 6100. My laptop sucks lol, I really hope it'll work on mine cause Leopard is awesome! this is a little off topic, but u wanna make ur lappy run like a champ, SERVER 2008 RTM, trust me ur laptop will love it!! Its like a super slim, top speed Vista with SP1 built in, Im using it as we speak, and its the BEST OS out rite now! NOW GETTING BACK on topic...................................... Does copying a IONetworkingFamily.kext from my Myzar 10.4.6 to say Leopard work????? Cause Myzar recognized my Realtek PCI card. And where is that topic for getting Realtek ALC662 HD Audio to work??? I kow someone told me but I cant find it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuxianer Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 The image onl boot with dvd. so i have tried this: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 update f 1 w q reboot but it doesn't help. next i tried to install the efi loader. i follow the instroductions no errors with this line: ./startuptool /dev/rdisk0s1 ./boot_v8 but it also doesn't boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.dvd Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Hi guys! I recently succesfully installed leo on my comp. But now im experiencing some issues: - First of all, im having difficulties setting up my internet connection, i have an onboard lan controller, but i honestly dont know what kind.. I have an asus m2v mobo and the only the asus site tells me about the lan is "PCI-E Gb LAN controller", i already tried googling it but failed to find an answer.. - Secondly, im wondering where i could find drivers for my soundcard, its also onboard: Realtek ALC 660, 6-ch High-Definition Audio CODEC - And the last thing, i have a xfx nvidia geforce 7600gt xxx graphics card, is the nvidia universal installer the right one to use? Or should i get the nvinject drivers? My other specs are: amd athlon am2 x2 4200+ 2gb of g.e.i.l. ram samsung sata hdd, dont remember the exact name thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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