banini_jeque Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 I finally got my installation running off my USB drive, but when I got into the installer, it wouldn't show any of my drives. I was able to get around in the menus, and even checked in Disk Utility and they didn't show there. I have an Asrock P4i65G with a P4 2.8 Prescott, and it has the ICH5 chipset I think. So then I installed the IOATAFamily.kext from the BrazilMac patch, and now when I get into the graphical installer, the mouse will move for like maybe a second, and then it just freezes. The whole system. No keyboard, nothing. I'm too tired now to replace IOATAFamily with the original Leopard one again to see if it's really causing the problem. Is there a better ICH5 solution? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75761-installer-freezes/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 Okay, well, I put the original vanilla IOATAFamily.kext back in, and it still freezes! I was able to once quickly click the arrow on the "Use English for the main language" screen, and as soon as it got to the progress bar screen after that it froze, so it seems to be something that happens after about one second into the graphics. It worked fine before I started messing with the IOATAFamily.kexts. I corrected permissions and everything, and I've also been able to duplicate this behavior using an internal drive that I restored the installer onto. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75761-installer-freezes/#findComment-535364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 Now I tried replacing the entire Extensions folder with the one from the ToH RC2 install DVD that I got. Still freezes exactly the same. Deleted Extensions.mkext a while ago, so that can't be it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75761-installer-freezes/#findComment-535387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 I'll go ahead and add my hardware in case that helps someone. Motherboard: ASRock P4i65g CPU: P4 Prescott 2.8 RAM: 1 GB Video: Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB Drives: Sony 40x12x48x, Mat{censored}a DVD, WD 80GB IDE (XP), SG 160GB SATA (Tiger), SG 160GB SATA (Leopard Installer), 30GB USB (Leopard Installer) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75761-installer-freezes/#findComment-535448 Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 Some success! After discovering that the ToH DVD I had would load with my onboard LAN disabled and with the -f flag, I installed. So then I thought, okay, lets try some more flags with the USB disk. So I did -x -v -f and it didn't freeze! But, it only showed my IDE drive with XP on it. So then I put set my BIOS to compatibility mode, and then tried again. This time it showed the 160GB SATA drives, but only recognized 128GB. I'm hoping that since I'm using GUID I can expand them to the full 160 when I'm done, but for now I went ahead and reformatted the one that had the leopard installer on it, and I'm installing onto it now from the USB drive. Yay! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75761-installer-freezes/#findComment-535494 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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