Almas Khan Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Hi, so I am trying to get Leopard running on my pc first off here my computer specs: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe AMD Opteron 180 2GB ram 3 Sata HD's ( 2 Raid0, 1 JBOB) Nvidia 8800GT BFG So I have no problems installing Leopard, installation goes smooth all the way to the big green check and restarting. I have tried installation with GUID and MBR both with the same outcome, successful installation but heres when the problem comes. When I restart my computer the Nvidia raid controller dismounts the harddrive after leopard installation so I remount it and try to direct the bios to boot that hard drive. When all the checks are done I see a blinking cursor that doesn't change. Thats the outcome for so many different attempts I've had, good installation but just can't boot for the life of me. If anyone can offer advice or a guide for my mobo I would be very greatful. I realized that the wiki said my mobo doesn't work but I've found many people that seem to report it working without a problem. If anyone can help, Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86908-boot-up-issues-with-asus-a8n-sli-deluxe-1051-after-installation/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuukka H Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I used to use that mobo with 10.5.1. It works smooth no problems but I will recommend not to use any raid things. I used to have boot in old ata harddisk cause there were some problems also with sata connections. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86908-boot-up-issues-with-asus-a8n-sli-deluxe-1051-after-installation/#findComment-617259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almas Khan Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 Thanks for the advice can you tell me the steps you took to install on that mobo so I have a foothold that I'm doing something partly right? GUID or MBR information like that? Also I have Vista installed on another HD if that helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86908-boot-up-issues-with-asus-a8n-sli-deluxe-1051-after-installation/#findComment-617287 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuukka H Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 If you have one spare harddisk use only that when you are installing. After osx works you can plug those other two disks and use bios to select which disks will boot (press F8). Use that dvd which is for amd and use diskutil to make partition(s) for osx and you are done. Remember that there are some amazing problems with this mobo. For example I had to keep ps/2 keyboard plugged to get sound working. Everytime I used only usb or bluetooh keyboard without ps/2 -> no sound! Hopely this help a little. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86908-boot-up-issues-with-asus-a8n-sli-deluxe-1051-after-installation/#findComment-617583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wirm Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Yea I had the same problem on the same exact motherboard, it's an easy fix. Good luck trying to get your network up though. The fix you need is here.. http://osx86.wikidot.com/known-issues#toc3 But a quit fix, is to start the installation DVD, goto the Disk Utility and click the drive and "Get Information" find your disk number and partitiong number (i.e. mine was disk2s1) and start with the boot flag rd=diskXsY - X being your disk # and Y being your partition # Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86908-boot-up-issues-with-asus-a8n-sli-deluxe-1051-after-installation/#findComment-617725 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuukka H Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Actually network works without any fix. There are two network "cards" and the other one works out of the box I just cant remember whick one it was. I suppose it was that nvidia one not the gigabit. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86908-boot-up-issues-with-asus-a8n-sli-deluxe-1051-after-installation/#findComment-617820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wirm Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 no {censored} eh, which disc did you use? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86908-boot-up-issues-with-asus-a8n-sli-deluxe-1051-after-installation/#findComment-618691 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almas Khan Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 Just wanted to update my thread if anyone can give me a step by step installation for this mobo clean slate no windows, I will be very greatful. I'll pretty much do any configuration at this point with this mobo to get it working l . Thanks for the help anyone can offer. Almas Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86908-boot-up-issues-with-asus-a8n-sli-deluxe-1051-after-installation/#findComment-619366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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