durro Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 i have a XFX 680i LT MB after trying to boot of the Kalyway 10.5.1 disc it stops halfway through and i cant even reach the install screen...Is there a way of making this work or another installation this will work.My specs:Q6600 2.4 ghz @ 3.02 ghzXFX 680i LT motherboard on the P32 biosXFX 8800 ultra4gb 800mhz Ramany help or suggestions are most apprecdiated When i try with vanilla it reboots while loading the kernel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95071-nforce-chipset/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
durro Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 I managed to get it to boot to the installer using cpus=1 But now the disk utility won't let me partition the hd it sees them but when I apply the partition it says resource busy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95071-nforce-chipset/#findComment-677877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
durro Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 Managed to get a clean install using ATkos 1.0i r3. Now the problem i have is when it starts up I think its trying to peform a network boot or somthing. i have tried hitting f8 but It wont let me at any boot option it just shows: CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 04 4B 04 08 A0 GUID: 1BFB600D-034B-0400-000-000000000000 DHCP....... Then eventually it times out and says PXE-MOF: Exiting NVIDIA boot agent.. It repeat this process about 4 times then fially says DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER Please help thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95071-nforce-chipset/#findComment-678429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
durro Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 This network boot is somthing to do with my mother board but why wont it boot osx? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95071-nforce-chipset/#findComment-678482 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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