Installation freezes @ 100%

[houkouonchi]

Ok, so here is my issue. When installing leopard everything works fine up until when it is actually installing the system and it gets to 100% on writing files but then the system will just freeze where I can't move the cursor or anything. First I thought it might be something with 8 GB of ram as I have seen issues with that on my system so I took half my ram out with 4 GB and still had the same issues. The DVD I burned was:

 

kalyway_osx86dvd_Leopard_9a527.iso

 

At first I thought it was maybe because I had HPET disabled in the bios but I enabled it and I have the same problem. It always crashes at the same point.

 

My system is:

 

Core 2 duo E6600 2.4 GHz

MSI nforce 650i based mobo

MSI 8800 GTX vid card

G.skill DDR2 Ram 4x2GB DDR2 800

 

Here is a list of my hardware:

 

00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 Host Bridge (rev a2)

00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a2)

00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:01.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:01.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:01.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:01.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:01.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:02.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:02.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:02.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)

00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)

00:06.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)

00:07.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)

00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)

00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)

00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)

00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)

00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)

00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)

00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)

00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)

00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)

00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)

00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)

00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTX] (rev a2)

02:00.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. Unknown device 3531 (rev 01)

03:00.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01)

04:06.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (rev 02)

04:07.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 81)

04:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev c0)

 

 

So anyone have this problem before? the freeze at installing at 100%?

 

If I need to give any more info please let me know.

[houkouonchi]

Ok I was able to get it to completely install when taking out my PCI-E sata controller and my PCI PATA controller as well as my PCI PCMCIA/CARDBUS controller and I removed all of my memory but 1 DIMM (2GB). However it just keeps rebooting itself after it loads the kexsts when I try to boot the system up. I have tried a full install (with everything) as well as just a base OS install and I get the same result. I do have access to the filesystem via my main OS (linux) as I can mount it. I went ahead and attached the install log and if there are any logs on the FS somewhere I should look at for clues as to why my system reboots after loading the kext's please let me know since I do have FS access.

__12452___12531___12473___12488___12540___12521___12525___12464__16_12_2007.txt

[richtig]

Don't use "Leopard 9a527". That's a pre-release beta version.

I suggest trying the ToH RC2, which is based on the final version.

[houkouonchi]

Don't use "Leopard 9a527". That's a pre-release beta version.

I suggest trying the ToH RC2, which is based on the final version.

 

Ah ok, thanks for the tip! I downloaded that one as it was available on usenet which I can easily utilize my 4 DSL lines getting about 2.2-2.3 megabytes/sec so it was quick (like 40 min) download. I just finished downloading the ToH release as well since I decided to give that one a try too (using BT). I will report if that one works better for me.

 

Thanks again.

[houkouonchi]

Unfortunately although slightly different, I seem to have the same problem with the ToH RC2. At first I got a kernel panic while booting off of the DVD but putting cpus=1 fixed that issue. After installing it (got no errors during installation) my system wouldn't boot at all and would just hang at _ blinking. I rebooted and ran the /usr/misc/script.sh and now my system doesn't get any type of boot loader and if I keep hitting f8 it does nothing and my system just reboots when it tries to boot off of the drive =(