fresch Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Hi. Im a total n00B to OSX86. I have a problem. i just downloaded the Mac os X 10.5,1 AMD SSE2/SSE3 DVD, and burned it in a DVD. I rebooted my PC, and booted the DVD. It starts booting the Leopard DVD, but freezes for like 15 seconds on: BSD root: disk2s3, major 14, minor 6 after that, 5 or 6 messages appar, so fast that i cant get any of it, and then it reboots. How do i fix this? How to i start the installation? Here are my specs: AMD 64 3500+ 3 GB Ram MSI K8N Neo-4F MainBoard 1x 120 GB IDE Seagate drive (with 80 Gb of unallocated space for Leopard). 2x 250 GB Sata Seagate drives. ATI x1950 pro Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74336-cant-get-past-leopard-amd-boot-screen-n00b/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
numberonekiwi Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 have you tried the patching the kernel and coping to your iso/dmg before burning to disk ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74336-cant-get-past-leopard-amd-boot-screen-n00b/#findComment-527406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maytagman Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 when booting hit f8 and choose the options -s -x (single user and safe mode) if that doesnt work... or even if it does... try to figure out what its trying to load when it crashes. boot to the cdrom. open the terminal, goto /Volumes/*Diskname/System/Extensions/ and try to remove the kext that is causing it to reboot. ie. rm -rf nameofkext.kext Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74336-cant-get-past-leopard-amd-boot-screen-n00b/#findComment-527412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fresch Posted December 4, 2007 Author Share Posted December 4, 2007 when booting hit f8 and choose the options -s -x(single user and safe mode) if that doesnt work... or even if it does... try to figure out what its trying to load when it crashes. boot to the cdrom. open the terminal, goto /Volumes/*Diskname/System/Extensions/ and try to remove the kext that is causing it to reboot. ie. rm -rf nameofkext.kext Okay.. I have just tried that. When i boot the dvd with -s -x, i get af lot of loading text, and after a minute, it stops again with the "Disk2s3 Major 14 Minor 6", message, and stays there for 15 secs. Then again, a couple of messages appear so fast i cant see them (Something about, Killing Processes... at the end), and then it reboots. I have tried to disable every single drive in the bios (Except 1 HDD, and the DVD drive), and it still dont work. I tried to disable Firewire controller, usb controller etc, and it still just reboots. Here are my HDD partitions, if that has anything to do with it: HDD 1, Seagate IDE 120gb (Boot): * Partition 1: 40 gb NTFS - Windows XP Installation * Partition 2: 80 gb Unallocated Space (i want to use this space for Leopard) HDD 2, Maxtor SATA 250gb : * Partition 1: 100 gb NTFS - ISOS * Partition 2: 150 gb NTFS - Games and Stuff HDD 3, Maxtor SATA 250gb : * Partition 1: 250 gb NTFS - Music, Installed games and Movies How do i get it to work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74336-cant-get-past-leopard-amd-boot-screen-n00b/#findComment-527921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefWiggum Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 I have got the EXACT same problem.. Trawling through search at the moment, but havent got a solution yet.. If somebody got more info.. please reply ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74336-cant-get-past-leopard-amd-boot-screen-n00b/#findComment-532777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espamac Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 I have a very similar problem. I'm running Tiger on 2 hackintoshes; a laptop Dell Latitude D610 and desktop Dell Optiplex GX520. I've been trying to install the latest 10.5.1 Leopard version for AMD and SSE2, on an external USB drive which also has Tiger installed. On the laptop I couldn't get passed BSD root: disk1s3, major 14, minor 5 and then after 30 seconds or so I could see Killing Process and it would reboot. So I used the the desktop to install Leopard on the USB drive, on this ocasion it also stopped for a while in "BSD root: bla bla bla" but after that the message "Jettisoning kernel" appeared and it went on with the installation. Though the USB drive manages to boot on the desktop computer, the system is not functional at all; it has kept all applications and documents that I had in the Tiger installation but you get no sound, not resolution beyond 1024x768 and even the Finder is not working properly, it blinks all the time at and doesn't launch so you cannot navigate through the files. The thing is that when I have connected the USB drive to the laptop to launch Leopard on the Latitude, I cannot get passed "BSD root: disk1s1, major 14, minor .." exactly the same that happened when trying to install Leopard from the DVD. The problem seems to be specific of my laptop but I'm not sure what to do or try. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Best regards to everyone Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74336-cant-get-past-leopard-amd-boot-screen-n00b/#findComment-533416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebels123 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Ok, I have this this exact problem to. I used the same image and have similar specs and when I boot the install up it does the BSD root: Disk 1s3 Major 14 minor 4 ............ Killling--reboot. I have also tried the different startups -v,-s and -cpus the cpus one came up with something new (sorry I forgot exactly what it said) but then still rebooted like before. Someone with knowledge please tell us what to do next!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74336-cant-get-past-leopard-amd-boot-screen-n00b/#findComment-533873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebels123 Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 bump...sorry but I would like this solved Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74336-cant-get-past-leopard-amd-boot-screen-n00b/#findComment-534584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
splx Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 I am also having this problem. I do notice that everyone who has posted machine specs is using an athlon64. I have an Athlon64 3200+. Perhaps this is related, what cpu is everyone else using? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74336-cant-get-past-leopard-amd-boot-screen-n00b/#findComment-534641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fresch Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 Please, anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74336-cant-get-past-leopard-amd-boot-screen-n00b/#findComment-534903 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espamac Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Nobody listens to our pleas... My chip is an Intel Pentium Mobile 1,8 Ghz, without SSE3, so it seems it's no related to AMD but to something else. I've been quite busy lately so I haven't tried again. I'm going to format my USB hard drive and will try to install Leopard again on the desktop to see if it gets any better. I'm not very optimistic anyway, it seems it's time for a real Mac, at least with my equipment. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74336-cant-get-past-leopard-amd-boot-screen-n00b/#findComment-537590 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindmar Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 It sounds to me as nobody is answering cause nobody knows why you are having these issues.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74336-cant-get-past-leopard-amd-boot-screen-n00b/#findComment-537607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espamac Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Yeah Lindmar I think you're quite right. It's not much of an issue for me since I'm happy with Tiger though I'd like to try Leopard. In any case, if someone really expert finds appealing to discover why we are having these problems, please ask any other technical questions about our machines that you find appropiatte, I'll be more than willing to help if I can. Mac OS X rules in any case! Best regards to everyone Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74336-cant-get-past-leopard-amd-boot-screen-n00b/#findComment-538621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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