Boot problems with Asus A8N SLI Deluxe

[kyrtid]

I have problems with installing Leopard Zephiroth 10.5.2 rev1 for AMD and would appreciate any suggestions on how to continue. I have reviewed a lot of other threads but nothing has helped.
My hardware:
Asus A8N SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
1GB RAM
2 SATA HDDs
1 ATA DVD
1 ATA CD-RW
M-Audio Audiophile 2496 sound card (I suppose it won't work but it's in the computer anyway, maybe I should remove it?)

I install including setting up my disks as:
2 partitions on each of my 2 SATA disks.
All partitions using Journaled HFS+
GUID boot
Installation is on rdisk0s2
Customizes with no SSE2/3 kernel, drivers for sound and Nvidia graphics etc
After install I reboot with the DVD still in the drive. (should I?)
I get a gray screen where it hangs.
I reboot again, press f8 and '-s'
Now I try (found in other threads):

cd /usr/standalone/i386
dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2 bs=512 count=1
(OK)
dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/disk0 bs=400 count=1
(OK)
/startupfiletool /dev/disk0s2 ./boot_v8
(error saying something about unable to unmount cleanly)

I also tried booting without the DVD but then the computer will not boot at all so I suppose the Leopard installation is not active yet.

I also tried the permission repair routine but it fails because I can't find the sudo command. I seems not to be in the search path.

[kyrtid]

Ooops, should be boot problems of course.

[Ianxxx]

Boot up with dvd
unmount any partitions on that disk with disk util
then do as above
cd /usr/standalone etc etc....

[kyrtid]

Thanks lanxxx. I did what you said and now I managed to do the "cd /usr/standalone..." routine. The problem is that I still can't boot. If I boot without the DVD notinh happens. If I boot with the DVD in the drive but don't press f8 it will start booting from the HDD. First I get the white Apple screen, then there is a quick flash of the "multicolored ball" and then a gray screen then black then gray then black and so on, i.e. nothing else happens.
Any suggestions how to continue?

[gaz919]

for you boot you need to use fdisk command

check

http://osx86.wikidot.com/known-issues


after you can try to boot with -x it is safe mode

for the loop you can try the activation commands they are listed

http://osx86.wikidot.com/known-issues


its the giving it a root passwd and jumping the setup