Luke//power Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Hey, I installed 10.5 with no trouble on my ibm thinkpad r51, but when I decided to install it on my desktop pc (with a p4p800-d motherboard) it loads and starts loading darwin but when it is about to start the mac loading screen before install, it restarts my computer. I thought it might tell me why if i ran it with "-v" and it crashes while loading "system.kext" Any ideas? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke//power Posted April 12, 2008 Author Share Posted April 12, 2008 is anybody going to reply? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wassupdoc Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Not sure if it reboots at the same point but I also keep getting rebooted... see my post for my problem: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=98821 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickll9009 Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Same problem with my dads P4 when I try the Kalyway 10.5.1 disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke//power Posted April 12, 2008 Author Share Posted April 12, 2008 well, If so many people have this problem, why doesnt an experienced member reply to it? and good luck everybody with fixing it i read on another post that it could be a problem with Darwin not properly recognizing the correct amount of cpus and they said to press f8 then type "cpus=1" but that did not work for me either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke//power Posted April 13, 2008 Author Share Posted April 13, 2008 Does no one care about this? or am i just a noob who cant use the "search button" I've tried everything, and im sure thease other members have too, there are plenty of good members on this forum, take 10 seconds out of your life and shed some light on the subject. even a "i have no clue what that could be, but best of luck fixing the problem" would be nice. I am begining to think that there are no good people remaining in the world There are three topics that I have found and the ONLY people who replied are people who have the same problem, is there no solution?? please at least tell me there isnt so i can stop trying to fix it Now that I am done my rant I would like to say, so long insanely mac community, and thanks for helping me with getting started with the whole mac-x86 thing. best of luck in the future Oh, and sorry for the double post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke//power Posted April 13, 2008 Author Share Posted April 13, 2008 Will ANYONE reply?! is the answer so obvious?!! if it is PLEASE TELL ME, i have WASTED my whole weekend trying to fix this PLEASE just one post its not that hard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke//power Posted April 14, 2008 Author Share Posted April 14, 2008 bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke//power Posted April 14, 2008 Author Share Posted April 14, 2008 ... :l Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHL Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 I had the same problem - it seems that the MB does not support everything that Kalyway needs, ex. SSE2-3... So I suggest you should check if your hardware is suitable.. I have tried the same CD on an other PC and the installation was successful. But unfortunately, I still can't boot for an unknown reason... http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=99063 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mavvert Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Also, if possible, try enabling "No-Execute Memory Protect" in your BIOS. Having it disabled caused rebooting on some machines i tested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke//power Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 Thanks for replying ill try that when I get home, Im at work right now. I just finished installing 10.4.7 on the computer which works perfectly. (other than mouse tearing from my ati radeon 9600) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuliand Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 well i have the same problem and from what i gather it's because i don't have EFI emulation and that doesn't work on P4s so this is probably the our stumbling block. Anyone know if i can get EFI emu on a P4 if this what is causing the reebooting after the Darwin f8 options screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke//power Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 ok if that is it tho, then why can I run tiger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuliand Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 well im not 100% percent sure but maybe Tiger doesn't use the EFI bios system? we really need some help here from someone who knows what they are on about, come on someone must be able to help us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomnimac Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Try iatkos. Not every distro will work on certain hardware.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke//power Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 <br />Try iatkos. Not every distro will work on certain hardware....<br /><br /><br /><br /> ok I will, I have also tried the BETA JaS 10.5.2 release with same results. And yes it would be very nice if somone with experiance could help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuliand Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 let us know how you get on with iatkos but i've got a feeling that we need to install the EFI bios emulation and from reading the thread for it only works on Intel core duo and up not on Pentium's might be something to do with older MBs as well. i'll post something there and see if i get a response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuliand Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 well im going to buy a new pc had my dell for 5 years now anyway so it's time for something new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bstedh Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Just a quick question about your R51. What are the specs? and what version did you install? I got kallaway 10.5.2 running on my R61 but am having trouble with the R51. It seems to install fine but will not boot. I can't get past - MAC Framework successfully initialized using 10485 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers Then absolutely nothing. No activity of any kind. I am assuming i will need to use an older distribution as this probably has a celeron or centrino in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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