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Hi all, a friend got me interested in Macs recently so I decided to give Leopard a go. System stats are...

 

Intel e6600 Core 2 Duo

evga 680i SLi mobo (using onboard ethernet)

2gb Corsair XMS ram

spare 40gb IDE hard drive (windows vista is on my SATA drive)

evga nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640mb video

Creative Audigy 2 sound

 

I've tried the Kalyway 10.5.1 SSE2/SSE3 disc and the iATKOS v1.0i disc.

 

Kalyway: I have to disable the 2nd core in the BIOS and type in "cpus=1 -v -x" in order for it to boot up into the install screen. Takes 2.5 hours to install. Errors out at the end. Keyboard didn't work, so I got a USB one and I will be trying that tonight.

 

iATKOS: Gets to the white screen w/ apple logo and reboots instantly.

 

Has anyone used a similar setup? If so, did you have to disable the 2nd core? Screenshots of the BIOS would be extremely helpful for this motherboard.

 

Thanks!

I got the install to go all the way through using the Kalyway disc and setting the Custom properties (Vanilla and MBR) just before the Install procedure. It finished install, rebooted, and now it just cycles on the reboot.

 

I'm trying to find the command that helps point OSX to the harddisk on bootup, anyone happen to have it or know if this is a different issue?

  • 3 weeks later...
Hi all, a friend got me interested in Macs recently so I decided to give Leopard a go. System stats are...

 

Intel e6600 Core 2 Duo

evga 680i SLi mobo (using onboard ethernet)

2gb Corsair XMS ram

spare 40gb IDE hard drive (windows vista is on my SATA drive)

evga nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640mb video

Creative Audigy 2 sound

 

I've tried the Kalyway 10.5.1 SSE2/SSE3 disc and the iATKOS v1.0i disc.

 

Kalyway: I have to disable the 2nd core in the BIOS and type in "cpus=1 -v -x" in order for it to boot up into the install screen. Takes 2.5 hours to install. Errors out at the end. Keyboard didn't work, so I got a USB one and I will be trying that tonight.

 

iATKOS: Gets to the white screen w/ apple logo and reboots instantly.

 

Has anyone used a similar setup? If so, did you have to disable the 2nd core? Screenshots of the BIOS would be extremely helpful for this motherboard.

 

Thanks!

 

Hello!

 

iAtkos v1.0ir3 works and ToHLeo RC2 works too. If you want your E6600 to work correctly then use iAtkos.

i Have the same cpu and ASUS P5N32-E sli mobo.

 

Good luck!!!

  • 5 months later...
I got the install to go all the way through using the Kalyway disc and setting the Custom properties (Vanilla and MBR) just before the Install procedure. It finished install, rebooted, and now it just cycles on the reboot.

 

I'm trying to find the command that helps point OSX to the harddisk on bootup, anyone happen to have it or know if this is a different issue?

 

if ur doing this as part of a dual boot

the fix is at the bottom of this bage unde bootloading:

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...DualBoot_10.5.2

I got the install to go all the way through using the Kalyway disc and setting the Custom properties (Vanilla and MBR) just before the Install procedure. It finished install, rebooted, and now it just cycles on the reboot.

 

I'm trying to find the command that helps point OSX to the harddisk on bootup, anyone happen to have it or know if this is a different issue?

 

Hi there, you have an nForce motherboard so cannot install the Vanilla kernel, the MBR is fine....

 

For Intel CPU and nForce chipset MOBOs check out the excellent threads by Mysticus C* http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=87901

and http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=109102

 

If you follow Mysticus C*'s guides carefully they should get you going OK...his guides and updater packages have got me up to running 10.5.4 on a 650i MOBO with a Q6600..... :P

 

A key point will be whether or not you have a SATA or PATA DVDRW as the former may cause problems.....But if you need further clarification on each step read the Kalyway 10.5.2 (IMHO the preferred choice because of giving no SUIDs errors) and iATKOSv2.0i 10.5.2 install guides in my blog......other forum readers and members have posted saying that it helped them install OS X successfully.....both Kalyway 10.5.2 (see here posts by icemantaz) and iATKOS v2.0i 10.5.2 (see posts here on pages 81 and 82 by sQuadron)...... :P

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