arrakis99 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 Hi all you ! I have read and searched a lot in this (and others) forum but still cannot resolve some issues. I'd really like to try Leopard but cannot make it works (sorry for my bad english). I hope that someone can help me. Thanks I'll try to describe you all my hardware and the steps I followed to install Leopard. MY Hardware:--------------------------------------------------- MB: MSI P965 Platinum ICH8r (LAN: RTL8111B, AUDIO: ALC883) CPU: Core 2 Duo E6400 RAM: 2 Gb All the drives (Optical and HDD) are SATA and are configured as AHCI: AHCI Port0: SATA HDD WD 320 Gb (<-- a new one. I want to install Leo here) AHCI Port1: SATA HDD Maxtor 320 Gb (NTFS) AHCI Port2: SATA HDD Maxtor 320 Gb (NTFS) AHCI Port3: (none) AHCI Port4: SATA DVD Asus E616A3T AHCI Port5: SATA DVDRW Asus DRW-1814BLT VGA: Asus 8800gts 512Mb (G92) WIFI PCI: Usrobotics 5417 BIOS SETTINGS:---------------------------------------------------- According to some posts I've read in this forum I've modified some settings in the bios: - Virtualization Tecnology: DISABLED - Execute Disable Bit: ENABLED - Core Mutli Processing: ENABLED - IOAPIC Function: ENABLED - ACPI Function: YES - ACPI Standby state: S3/STR INSTALL STEPS:---------------------------------------------------- 1. Put the Kalyway 10.5.1 in the DVD (AHCI Port4) and boot 2. Partition the new HD (AHCI Port0) as GUID and format 3. Custom Setup: -Vanilla kernel: yes -Vanilla acpi fix: yes (I've tried also "no" ) -(no selection of video drivers... so no natit nor nvinject, I will install later) -ALC883 Sound -EFI GUID 4. Install to the new HD (AHCI Port0). (I've done this process many times even formatting as MBR with EFI MBR, with or without Vanilla acpi fix... ecc) After installation, at the Darwin Prompt I see: "Use UP/DOWN Keys to select the startup volume" but tue only volume is: "hd(111,0) Leopard_Install_OsX86" "Press ENTER to startup... bla bla bla..." I have tried the following boot options: 1. (ENTER) 2. -v 3. -v -f in Verbose mode I can se some errors (not textual 'cause I wrote them down with pencil): USBF: AppleUSBEHCI - UIMINITALIZE - Error Occurred USBF: Unable to Initialize UIM USBF: Unable to obtain Ownership ... ... com.apple.systemstarter - Failed to count the num of files in "/system/library/startupitems/": No such file or directory ... anyway it seems to proceed.. IT SEEMS becuse ... ALWAYS RETURNS THE INITIAL SETUP (Language selection) Is a sort of LOOP... What I'm doing Wrong ? Please HELP ! THANKS A LOT ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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