Newbie - Installation Problems

[jefflo]

Hello! I've waited a while for the OSx86 project to develop and thought it'd be nice to try my hand at installing OSX to my system.

Here's a component list:

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Motherboard: DFI LANParty UT NF4 Ultra-D
VGA: Sapphire ATI X800 Pro
Memory: 2 GB RAM - too lazy to find out what it is
3 250 GB WD SATA Hard Drives


I've checked the HCL and the processor and the motherboard should work.

Situation:
I've tried installing OSX with iDeneb's newest release (v1.3 10.5.5) and iATKOS v4a to no avail. I'm currently downloading Leo4All v4 to see if it's a distribution problem. I believe it may also be a matter of installing the right patches..

Questions:

Is there something wrong with my hardware? Drivers? Distribution/Release?
How can I copy the error log that I get from the iDeneb install?


Thanks so much for reading, and thank you, moderators, for this community!

Cheers to you this Christmas season.

[nfoav8or]

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Motherboard: DFI LANParty UT NF4 Ultra-D
VGA: Sapphire ATI X800 Pro
Memory: 2 GB RAM - too lazy to find out what it is
3 250 GB WD SATA Hard Drives


I've checked the HCL and the processor and the motherboard should work.

Situation:
I've tried installing OSX with iDeneb's newest release (v1.3 10.5.5) and iATKOS v4a to no avail. I'm currently downloading Leo4All v4 to see if it's a distribution problem. I believe it may also be a matter of installing the right patches..

Questions:

Is there something wrong with my hardware? Drivers? Distribution/Release?
How can I copy the error log that I get from the iDeneb install?


Thanks so much for reading, and thank you, moderators, for this community!

What is the problem exactly? you can't boot the install DVD or you can't install to the HD? or you can't boot the hard drive after install?

Is your DVD drive an IDE or SATA drive?

I see the board has the nForce4 chipset so all that needs to be done to make SATA drives work is to make sure the AppleNForceATA.kext file is loaded at boot (for both the installer and the system). If you are having no problem booting and installing then make sure you select this option (I prefer the "nforce Test" option myself).

as for the error log... how is it displayed... in verbose mode while starting up? or in the console on the DVD? or in a text file?

if all else fails, take a small resolution (but not pixellated) picture of it and post it.

EDIT: I believe it may also be a matter of installing the right patches...
This part makes me think you are able to either boot into the DVD but not install, OR you have the ability to edit the .iso or disc image file. Please clarify. Thanks.

[jefflo]

Thank you for your quick response. Sorry for the ambiguity!

The DVD drive is an IDE.

I'm able to boot into the DVD and get the install running. The problem is that the install won't complete. It hangs and outputs an error log in the console on the DVD. This happens very early in the install process.

I'll try again to see if the nForceTest patch will make a difference. Will post a picture if it fails.

Thanks again!

[jefflo]

I'm back from another failed installation :P This was with the iDeneb v1.3 release.

So here are the pictures:

http://photo.freylo.com/main.php?g2_itemId=1728 - the patches I applied (that's all I did)
http://photo.freylo.com/main.php?g2_itemId=1737 - the point at which the install froze
http://photo.freylo.com/main.php?g2_itemId=1740 - error message
http://photo.freylo.com/main.php?g2_itemId=1743 - error log pt. 1
http://photo.freylo.com/main.php?g2_itemId=1749 - error log pt. 2


I don't have much experience with the error messages. Hope you have a better time decoding it than I did!

Thanks again.

[jefflo]

I tried Leo4all v.4 today. It failed.

However, it failed with the same error as the message I received while trying to install iDeneb v1.3: "Folder Manager is being asked to create a folder (asav) while running as uid0."

What does this mean? Am I able to fix this?

[jefflo]

sympathy bumpp

[nfoav8or]

how fast did you burn this disc... the main reason these issues have been caused in the past is because the disc was burned too fast. slow it down (4x or less is recommended)

[jefflo]

Hi nfoav8or,

I reburnt all my distros at 2.4x and verified the disks.

I tried reinstalling with iATKOS v4a (burnt at 2.4x, verified, same md5 checksum) but I got a different error this time - something to do with not being able to find the mount point & the installation could not be verified. What could be the problem? Is it still the image, even though my image does have the same md5 checksum and passed verification after burning?