Installation fails (ToH).

[kuakuaamen]

Hello there! -excuse mua for the bad english-. First my machine specs:

 

LSPCI Output:

 

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [siS] SiS645 Host & Memory & AGP Controller (rev 02)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [siS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)

00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [siS] SiS961 [MuTIOL Media IO]

00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [siS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller

00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [siS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)

00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [siS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)

00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [siS] 5513 [iDE] (rev d0)

00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c900B-TPO Etherlink XL [Cyclone] (rev 04)

00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)

00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)

00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3)

 

Intel pentium 4 northwood 2.4, mother soyo p4 dragon ultra, 512ddr2 333, hd samsung ata 40g, ide dvd player, ps/2 keyboard, usb mouse.

 

Installation method > ToH_x86_9A581_RC2, md5 checksum: OK.

 

Problem desc > begins installation with lots of "Loading HFS+ file" and after 1 minute or so it reboots. I'm pretty sure that it reboots after this:

 

Loading HFS+ file: [/system/Library/Extensions/TMSafetyNet.kext/Contents/MacOS/TMSafetyNet]

 

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I didn' find any hardware incompatibility in the internet, just a problem with ultradma and sis5513 but people could install anyway.

I want to buy a mac and i would like to try it first. Help would be very appreciated, ideas, suggestions, anything!.

thankyou very much

[kuakuaamen]

well, i have installed 10.4.10 and everything went fine... just had to change the ethernets for a rtl8139 that had in another machine, my printer is working through hpjips becouse hp drivers dont work, and sound, everything!.

conclussion: soyo p4 dragon ultra completely supported but integrated ethernet sis900 in darwin 8.9.1.

for those people who where having the "start display failed" issue just start terminal from macos dvd and

 

cd /Volumes/"the name of the hd where you installed osx86"

cd /System/Library/Extensions

rm -R NVD* AGP* Natit*

 

quit installer and that should do it (you must have Titan.kext).