Gigabyte 965P-DS3P and a P35C-DS3R and problems with Darwin X86 and EFI bootloaders

[ila81]

Hello guys,

I really hope you can help!

 

I have been trying to install Leopard 10.5.1 (both iATKOS 1.0, 1.0ir2 and Kalyway) and I can install it fine and also install the boot loader fine (at least so it says in the terminal windows together with the stats) but I can not get the bootloader to show up after the installation has completed. It basically reboot and stands still with nothing moving after the system specification

 

My set up is:

- the MBs mentioned in the topic (both of them exhibits the same behavior)

- E6300 and E2140

- only ONE SATA hdd (I disconnected the other thinking there could interfere in some ways) attached to the 1st SATA port (not gigabyte ones, the orange ones)

- Ati radeon HD2600 Pro 512Mb or NVIDIA 6800GTO 256Mb

- Ide DVD-RW Drive (LG, I think) attached to the sata/ide connector

- 2 DDR RAM modules in dual channel

 

I have tried with both MBR and GUID partition tables, 1 or 2 partition scheme, Vanilla kernel with EFI bootloader and patched kernel with darwin X86 bootloader and I still could not get it to boot.

Funny enough, if I put the kalyway disc and do not boot it from there, I can boot off my hardrive and have my Leopard installation working...off course no when I have a vanilla kernel one though..

 

WHat can it be? I have tried with the SATA ports in AHCI mode and ide mode; I have tried to install it and then disconnect the IDE drive so that there is just one sata controller working (the one with the hdd) and still nothing...I can not think of anything else but God knows if I want to give up

 

Anyone can help me find a way to get it done? Anyone with suggestions having the same problem? Can it be the virtualization flag enabled in the BIOS? Or the HPET flag disabled?

I am open to any suggestion here...I want that thing working with Vanilla kernels.

 

Thanks in advance

Ila

[mattvs221984]

try selecting both the efi emulation and the darwin x86 boot loader. Also, I had to boot up the gparted live cd and set the boot flag on my leopard partition. It was already set, so I removed it, applied, then added it back and applied. Did a complete shutdown and removed the boot cd then started up again and leopard booted.

 

I dont know if selecting efi and darwin is the right thing to do, but it let me use the vanilla kernel. I guess the real test will be whether or not the 10.5.2 update works when it is released.

 

I used the iATKOS 1.0iR2 disk.