"Unable to find driver: ACPI" -- Please help!

[SlickMK]

Hi everyone,

 

I’ve been trying to get 10.5.1 installed on my computer, but so far I have been unsuccessful. Here is the information for my setup:

 

Compaq Presario SR1630NX

Motherboard: ASUS A8AE-LE

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2 GHz [MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64]

Video: ATI Radeon XPress 200 (integrated onto motherboard – 64 MB of memory)

Audio: Integrated (AC97)

Memory: 640 MB RAM and 160 GB HDD (IDE connection)

Drives: DVD-ROM and CD-RW (both use IDE connections)

9-in-1 memory card reader built-in

 

Other information on the computer is available at:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/documen...product=1122478

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/documen...product=1122478

 

I’m using the Kalaway 10.5.1 distribution, but I don’t know anything other than that about it; one of my friends gave it to me, and he can’t seem to find the exact filename.

 

So you don’t have to look for it, I’ve heard that people have had success with both the CPU and the video card, although the video card doesn’t seem to support Quartz Extreme or many other features. Anyway, I’m not sure if either of those is the problem.

 

The problem and how it happens: With the DVD in the drive, I turn the computer on and wait for it to go through POST. I’m asked if I want to boot from the CD or choose any advanced options, and I choose to boot from the CD. The “Loading Darwin/x86” screen shows for about 5 or so minutes, and then the following flashes on screen for about a tenth of a second:

 

Loading Darwin/x86

EFI enhanced bootloader build: ToH

Using SMBIOS table found at 0x000f13e0

Using ACPI RSDP revision 2 found at 0x000f7c60

 

That text quickly flashes away, and another screen shows up with a bunch of text on the background and the big “You need to restart your computer” graphic in multiple languages in the foreground.

 

The text in the background starts off with the following:

 

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x004314FF): “Unable to find driver for this platform: \”ACPI\”.\n”@/Volumes/disk1s2/leo_xnu/xnu-1228/iokit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1376

Debugger called: <panic>

Backtrace, Format – Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)

 

…and then a bunch of numbers and letters. (I’ve attached a photo of this to this message.)

 

What I have tried so far: I restarted the computer and pressed F8 to enter startup variables when prompted. When I tried –v, I got basically the same thing, except the “Restart” graphic didn’t show up and I could read more of the text that showed up when I first tried to boot it. Two interesting lines are as follows:

 

Local APIC version not 0x14 as expected

ACPI CA 20051117 [debug level=0 layer=0]

 

These lines directly preceded the “panic(cpu…)” that I typed up above. I’ve attached a picture of the whole screen to this message as well.

 

I also tried booting with –x, which had the same results as –v, and platform=X86PC, which didn’t help either. Would –s do anything differently? And what other startup options are available?

 

A couple more notes:

1. The hard drive was formatted as NTFS when I first tried, but I used GParted to turn it into a raw partition (or whatever you call it) after it didn’t work the first few times.

2. I am using the computer with a KVM switch since I only have one monitor, keyboard, and mouse. However, I don’t switch back and forth when booting, so I don’t think this is the problem.

 

What I am going to try:

1. Unplug the memory card reader from the motherboard to see if that will cause any difference

2. Remove the CD-RW drive and only have the one DVD-ROM drive active

 

My request:

If any of you has some information that could help me, please let me know! I am very experienced with most versions of Windows, but I have no experience with Macs other than using them in college for design work (i.e. I don’t have experience with the command line and operators, etc.). I have a feeling that if I could just get past this screen, everything will go well!

 

Thank you all for taking the time to read my message!

 

-Matthew

[SlickMK]

Updates

 

Okay, I've tried several more things:

 

1.  Unplugged all front panel connections from motherboard (USB 2.0, Firewire, card reader, audio)

2.  Removed second optical drive

3.  Tried the following additional boot options:  platform=X86PC, platform=ACPI, -f, rd=disk0s1, -legacy

4.  Disabled a bunch of stuff in BIOS (USB legacy support, onboard audio, onboard ethernet, etc.)

 

None of this changed anything!  I'm slowly starting to lose hope, because I've tried many of the options I thought might have some effect.  Do you think I should try out some other image?

[hughson]

I'm not sure if Kalyway 10.5.1 is AMD Compatible.

try leo4all or Zephyroth install disks

[alexccccc]

Did you fix the problem? I have the same problem on 10.5.4 iATKOS.