loxxbert Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Hello and Happy New Year at first! I'm confronted with a problem, which I couldn't find here: 1.) After downloading the Image, I burned it as slow as I could (2,4x) onto a DVD+R (Nero's data comparison method told me that the image was successfully written to the disk). 2.) Popping this DVD hopefully into my drive and booting it ended in a black screen and a restart. In order to be more precise: I come to this startup screen where I can press F8 or Enter, then I tried both (at first F8 and -v option and after this just Enter) but after this I can see - just for a quarter of a second - the white installation screen and then my system restarts. Ok, my hardware: Manufacturer: Asus Mainboard: X51R Series Ver. 1.0 BIOS: AMI Ver 209 (31/07/2007) CPU: Intel Core Duo T2450 @ 2.0 Ghz (Instructions up to SSE3) Chipset: ATI RS400/RC400/RC410 Memory: 2048 MB DDR2 HDD: 160 GB S-ATA Hitachi HTS722016K9SA00 Video: ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 (Shared Memory 128 MB) Windows XP and the latest Ubuntu Linux Distribution work without any problems on that machine. I've been reading in this forum and on other sites before, but it seems to me that almost everyone is at least able to install OSX. My hardware also seems to be able to do this. I'm sure someone is able to help me. Thanks in advance for every hint! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcdull Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Chipset: ATI RS400/RC400/RC410 this seems to be the problem. Are you sure the leopard DVD support this chipset? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loxxbert Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 Yes, maybe... I just had a look in the Hardware Compatibilty Lists and couldn't find my chipset :X So, is there anyone who owns the same chipset as I do and was able to install OSx86 ? This would really cheer me up! Thank you mcdull for your answer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Yes, maybe...I just had a look in the Hardware Compatibilty Lists and couldn't find my chipset :X So, is there anyone who owns the same chipset as I do and was able to install OSx86 ? This would really cheer me up! Thank you mcdull for your answer! Ok, Here's how it boots: Insanely enough, if you put an IDE HDD and IDE DVD Drive on the same IDE Channel it will boot and run, but it will be slow! However, you can redo the cabling after install. It took about 5 hours with identical hardware. Or, option 2, use an external USB, OR Firewire Optical drive to install without a hitch. I think it all has to do with the AppleOnBoardPCATA.kext, and that wonderfull ATI controller. I have tried brazil mac, and patches, and more patches. About 8 DVD's, everything you can think of, but it all came down to getting the root device on the same I/O as destination HDD, or booting it from another bus line altogether. If you start it in "Graphics Mode"="1024x768x32@60" the graphics will be fairly decent. The ati xpress doesn't support vesa graphics after you leave 16bit real mode env. and os x has some kind of memory polling problem for the rambus that shares ram with the xpress chips. You'll need the Azalia audio installer for realtek, sigmatel, intel audio. Oh, and you will have to bless the drive after first boot, the dummybless from the installer is bunk. Hope this helps, lemme know if I can help in any way. Oh, and one more thing, burning the discs slowly is supertition, just don't get media from the dollar store. 48x Burn on TDK DVD-R works great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loxxbert Posted January 11, 2008 Author Share Posted January 11, 2008 Ok Pippy, that's all quite interesting. Due to the fact that I'm in the possesion of a notebook, I don't see any chance to connect the HDD and Optical drive at one IDE Cable, because the HDD (as you can read above) is a Serial-ATA Drive. So Option 1 is no choice for me. Therefore, I guess, I will need to use Option 2. The problem is, that I have neither got an external optical drive nor do I know that any of my friends or relatives has got one. So, I thought about these two ideas: 1.) Booting via LAN (This would mean, I needed to learn how to prepare a boot server on another computer in order to boot my notebook from there - I've never done this before and it could take a lot of time, which I don't have (I'm a student)). 2.) Booting from a Memory-Stick. Several days before, I saw an advertisement in a local newspaper. A 4 GB Memorystick with USB 2.0 was offered there for just 19,00 Euros. So do you think, this would work, if I copied all the data from the boot-disc to a memory stick and boot it? (I never used to boot a memory stick before, so if yes, do I have to attend to anything special?) Thanks for your answer in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeT_RS Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Hy I successfully installed iAtkos v1.0 but after restart cannot boot I see the blinking cursor.... Any Idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Search Forum for "blinking cursor" or google it SticMAN HyI successfully installed iAtkos v1.0 but after restart cannot boot I see the blinking cursor.... Any Idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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