need help with iatkos s3 v2

[CriticalGanja]

Hey guys, I had iAtkos v7 10.5.7 installed and running 80% perfect but to get my gtx 480 to work I needed snow Leopard i then downloaded iatkos s3 v2 and I cant seem to get the DVD to read the HD so it wont boot the installer Ive tryed everything and I always get "Still waiting for the root device" error I have uploaded a video to youtube showing my bios and full boot with rd=disk1 -v flags.

 

 

Hardware specs

 

CPU: amd athlon II x3, SSE (1,2,3,4A),MMX(+),3DNow!(+),x86-64,AMD-v

Mobo:ASUS M4A785-M

Memory: 2048 Mbit for install 6GB after

Grafix:Nvidia Geforce GTX 480

HDD: 2TB windows 7 drive, 320 GB HDD for osx

No Manufacturer built it myself =)

[dpollard55]

Not sure if you tried this yet, but here is what I had to do. I noticed when SATA was set to AHCI it would read the hard drive but not the DVDROM. With SATA set to IDE it would read the DVDROM but not the HD. Believe it or not the solution was simply plugging the DVDROM into a different port and finding the setting that worked in my BIOS, in my case AHCI.

[CriticalGanja]

Thanks for the advice man it worked ^^ It will now find the boot device but then I get an endless loop check out the screen shot I googled around and havent really found much on it any ideas?

[CooSee]

if i'am not wrong, but iAtkos S3 is for INTEL only !!!

 

CooSee ' Ya

[CriticalGanja]

{censored} eh' the download said intel/amd sse2 sse3 but I just googled it and your right what should i download to get snow leopard working on my machine?

[CooSee]

{censored} eh' the download said intel/amd sse2 sse3 but I just googled it and your right what should i download to get snow leopard working on my machine?

 

no offence, but

 

i PM you a link !!!

 

CooSee ' Ya

[verdant]

{censored} eh' the download said intel/amd sse2 sse3 but I just googled it and your right what should i download to get snow leopard working on my machine?

 

iATKOS S3 v2 was designed around Intel CPU MOBOs in terms of testing before release.......however, some have used it on AMD CPU MOBOs.......

 

There are 5 kernels to boot the S3 DVD. qoopz 10.3.0, qoopz 10.2.0, pcj 0.9 10.2.0, atom 10.3.0 and the modbin 10.0.0 kernel. The default is qoopz 10.3.0. To boot the Install DVD with another kernel, type any one of:

 

"mach_qoopz" for qoopz 10.2.0

"mach_pcj" for pcj v0.9 10.2.0

"mach_atom" for atom 10.3.0

"mach_modbin" for modbin 10.0.0

 

Install Leopard using a AMD compatible distro (it makes good sense to always have a backup working OS X system installed), or use TransMac in Windows, to transfer the mach_modbin kernel to the / directory of the presently un-bootable SL installation that you installed by booting the iATKOS S3v2 Install DVD using mach_modbin (since there is no modbin kernel in the Customize menu, it is only available as a patched i.e. non-vanilla kernel to boot the iATKOS S3v2 Install DVD) and remember to modify the Kernel key in all com.apple.Boot.plist files........

 

Modbin_Kernel.zip

[apatsufas]

iAtkos v3 s2 works on AMD machines. I'm running it with no problems.

[CriticalGanja]

in that case i tryed booting with different kernels and they just resulted in a panic and im back at the endless loop and thanks for all your suggestions guys

[apatsufas]

Have you tried bootflags cpus=1 or/and busratio = your busratio?

[CriticalGanja]

No i havent and how do i find out my busratio? sorry if i sound really noob xD

[apatsufas]

No problem man.

 

Your busratio should be your cpus multiplicator.

[CriticalGanja]

in cpuid my multiplier is x15.0 so cpus=1 busratio=15 right? didnt see anything for multiplcator?

[apatsufas]

Yes thats correct. Try that and see what happens. And add -v too.