thasp Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 I am not trying to be a wiseass - honest. I tried installing OSX86. I turned off all the nonsense in my BIOS I did not intend to use for OSX. I turned off firewire, LAN, jmicron shizzle, sound. I set it to S3, I disabled all the speedstep/c1e nonsense, I set sata to achi. I have an Asus P5K deluxe wifi. I have the board down to bare bones. Just a keyboard, a mouse, a CPU, one stick of memory, an evga 7800gt graphics card, the sata dvd burner, and the one hard drive I was using to install OSX on. I wish I could say it gave me more. A code, a number, something to go on, but all it says is "error" in the upper left corner. I can reboot and it does the same. Since it has its own HD I made one big partition for the OS and installed to the MBR. Is there anything I can try out, is it possible the DVD image I had for installation was bunk, or does this just not like the p5k, a q6600, and an evga 7800gt? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 What distro are you using? For e.g., brazilmac, iAtkos, Kalyway, Zephyroth, Leo4all Did you enable "Execute Disable" in the BIOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thasp Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 kalyway. I disabled that in the BIOS.. whoops. let me try with that changed and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thasp Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Alright. I enabled execute disable, it was disabled before.; Now it wouldn't say error but rather would boot into a black screen, no text or graphics, then reboot. I tried going back to disabling it and it did the same thing, no "error" this time. Hosed! I tried 10.4 kalyway and on the install it got stuck at "still waiting for root device", even wth sata as ahci, and all the jmicron {censored} disabled. I tried another 10.5.1 kalyway DVD. It installed, I set it to install to MBR, made a partition that took up an entire drive. I started the install while in the shower and when I came back it had rebooted back to the DVD, I tried to boot into it, and it'd say insert proper boot media(not verbatim). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ouyllik93 Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 try using iATKOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thasp Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 Just tried iatkos. Installed with EFI, and it would reboot with a blank screen. the caps lock and numlock keys were still working. ctrl-alt-delete worked nearly instantly, maybe a half a second delay to reboot, but nothing loaded, I gave it five minutes. I tried no EFI emulation as well. I tried MBR and the other one that starts with a G. so 4 bad installs of iatkos. I tried execute disabled bit on and off, as well as enabling and disabling apic in acpi or acpi in apic in the bios. I had it set to S3. then I went back to kalyway 10.5.1 but with a different CD image and got the same thing.. "error" Then I thought maybe iatkos didn't want to show itself since it's hooked to an hdtv, even though xp, linux, and my bios have no problem with it. So I decided to reinstall iatkos and hook it up to a monitor but it wouldn't boot up for install. at this point I gave up for the night, since that was two and a half hours down the drain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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