dfinnitive
03-23-2010, 03:55 PM
Hello all,
While new to the scene, I'm definately not not new to PCs or Macs. But, in spite of my experience, my searching, my research, and the digging through the forums on this board, I'm stumped.
The sitch:
Gigabyte GA-G1SM-ES2L - Rev. 2, BIOS ver. FF
OSX 10.6 install disk (Retail, new)
nVidia 9800 based card (other details unknown)
Crucial memory - 2 GB
WD SATA Hard drive - 160GB (I think)
SATA DVD reader
All new, purchased recently
I've gone through the Boot132 method, the Empire EFI method, and a few others that I don't even remember. No method works. I get as far as the bootloader, successfully, to the book. Then, when I put in the OSX boot-disk, I get a crash and restart - either right awy, or within 8 - 15 seconds.
My questions are threefold:
I've downloaded and used the boot132 iso that has been built for this board - but possibly the rev.1 -- besides the onboard NIC (which I've disabled in BIOS), folks say there's no real difference. Is there anything else I need to do to the ISO to make it a usable bootloader?
I've already gone into bios, and disabled the obvious (NIC, serial ports) and tried different configurations for the drives ("enhanced", "auto", "combined"). The drives are recognizeable, and I can boot to the various CDs, and even one version that boots from a USB key. Is there anything specific in the bios of this board that I need to set?
Has anyone else attempted to use the most recent ISO from Apple, and successfully installed it on a PC in this way?
My only thought, at this point, is to downgrade the bios from ver. FF back to version F9 or so (which I've seen folks have success with). I checked the revision notes on each version from F9 to FF, and I don't see anything that should cause issues, but I've seen wierder things happen for the same reason.
Any help that can be provided would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
- dFinnitive.
Western Massachusetts
While new to the scene, I'm definately not not new to PCs or Macs. But, in spite of my experience, my searching, my research, and the digging through the forums on this board, I'm stumped.
The sitch:
Gigabyte GA-G1SM-ES2L - Rev. 2, BIOS ver. FF
OSX 10.6 install disk (Retail, new)
nVidia 9800 based card (other details unknown)
Crucial memory - 2 GB
WD SATA Hard drive - 160GB (I think)
SATA DVD reader
All new, purchased recently
I've gone through the Boot132 method, the Empire EFI method, and a few others that I don't even remember. No method works. I get as far as the bootloader, successfully, to the book. Then, when I put in the OSX boot-disk, I get a crash and restart - either right awy, or within 8 - 15 seconds.
My questions are threefold:
I've downloaded and used the boot132 iso that has been built for this board - but possibly the rev.1 -- besides the onboard NIC (which I've disabled in BIOS), folks say there's no real difference. Is there anything else I need to do to the ISO to make it a usable bootloader?
I've already gone into bios, and disabled the obvious (NIC, serial ports) and tried different configurations for the drives ("enhanced", "auto", "combined"). The drives are recognizeable, and I can boot to the various CDs, and even one version that boots from a USB key. Is there anything specific in the bios of this board that I need to set?
Has anyone else attempted to use the most recent ISO from Apple, and successfully installed it on a PC in this way?
My only thought, at this point, is to downgrade the bios from ver. FF back to version F9 or so (which I've seen folks have success with). I checked the revision notes on each version from F9 to FF, and I don't see anything that should cause issues, but I've seen wierder things happen for the same reason.
Any help that can be provided would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
- dFinnitive.
Western Massachusetts