Leo doesn't boot from USB on GA P35 DS4

[allema2]

Hey guys

 

 

 

I have a big problem, I always get a blinking cursor after the installation of Leopard (right after the „Verifying DMI Pool Data“ message).

 

 

 

Here’s my hardware:

 

Gigabyte GA P35-DS4 Mainboard

 

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU

 

External USB-harddisk WD

 

Samsung SATA DVD-RW

 

No internal HD (plugged it out so that Leo can’t smash my windows-loader)

 

Geforce 8600GT

 

 

 

This hardware should be well-supported by Leo, even the 8600GT is supported with beta-kexts from 10.5.2!

 

 

 

This is how I installed Leopard:

 

First, I booted Gparted Live-CD to wipe the whole disk. Then I booted iATKOS-DVD and partitioned the disk with Disk Utility (Volume Scheme 1 partition, type MBR).

 

Then I launched Darwin boot and created the boot-sector (non-EFI). Then I installed Leo, of course without stock kernel. After installation, my computer reboots and keeps hanging after verifying DMI pool data.

 

 

 

I even booted Gparted Live-CD again after installing Leo, the boot flag is set, so it should boot?!

 

 

 

I guess there’s somthing wrong with BIOS-settings, so if anyone knows what settings I need for USB-booting Leo, please let me know

 

 

 

Thanks in advance for your help

[allema2]

UPDATE

 

I've just installed 10.4.6 on my USB-drive, and surprisingly it boots (after setting the bootflag with Gparted live-cd)

 

This proves that the MoBo can boot from that harddisk, so the problem must be the Leo's bootloader from the iATKOS-DVD.

 

Is it possible to use the 10.4.6-Loader with Leo?

[rounak]

UPDATE

 

I've just installed 10.4.6 on my USB-drive, and surprisingly it boots (after setting the bootflag with Gparted live-cd)

 

This proves that the MoBo can boot from that harddisk, so the problem must be the Leo's bootloader from the iATKOS-DVD.

 

Is it possible to use the 10.4.6-Loader with Leo?

 

which files to put in usb so that it can boot?