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Problem with installation - iATKOS_v7

Look at this screenshot... What I should do? me.. I have msi k9n neo2 nforce 520 am2 amd 4400+ nvidia geforce 8500gt 256mb …

Primary Author
@D1mk3 Published 2009-08-09
Collection
Leopard 10.5
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14,383 historical reads · 7 curated field notes (from 14 dispatches) · 2009-08-09 – 2009-09-19
Credited Voices (5)
@D1mk3 (7)@Imkantus (4)@MatthewH12@milanca@proti

Look at this screenshot...
What I should do?
me..
I have
msi k9n neo2 nforce 520 am2
amd 4400+
nvidia geforce 8500gt 256mb
…

Author Updates & Technical Revisions

Follow-up dispatches by @D1mk3

Author Update #1 @D1mk3 2009-08-13

I solved that problem,I used my other dvd drive.
But now I have 2nd problem.
If I type -v :

If i don`t type -v ,after about 12s of loading screen :

What should I do?

Author Update #2 @D1mk3 2009-08-17 ↳ Re: @Imkantus

Look @ here,is it ok?

But it is still waiting for the root device..What now?

@ImkantusIs this when you are booting from DVD or after Installation? If it's the DVD try to boot up using latest Kernel by typing "/mach_970" at the boot prompt.

U mean this?
Whis is in installation.
Where i have to type "/mach_970" ,what is boot prompt?

Author Update #3 @D1mk3 2009-08-18

When I type /mach_970 --->

When I type /toh to white screen whit apple on mid loads more than hour and still nothing happens
What now?

Synthesized Community Field Notes

7 technical responses curated from 14 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @MatthewH12 2009-08-13

It looks like a disk issue, check your HD for errors, and try cleaning or reburning the DVD.

Field Note #2 @Imkantus 2009-08-13

Is this when you are booting from DVD or after Installation?

If it's the DVD try to boot up using latest Kernel by typing "/mach_970" at the boot prompt.

Field Note #3 @Imkantus 2009-08-13

Did you select nForce SATA/IDE under Customize during Setup?

Field Note #4 @Imkantus 2009-08-17

I am sorry I missunderstood you, skiped that you made use of an other DVD drive and thought that error ocured on HD installation...

Well your second problem looks more serious then the first one.
If it's SATA try to set it to AHCI mode in your BIOS, if it's possible.

Furthermore I recommend you to try the hint I gave you in my first posting, using the drive you tried for the first time.

Field Note #5 @Imkantus 2009-08-17 ↳ Re: @D1mk3
@D1mk3Where i have to type "/mach_970" ,what is boot prompt?

When you boot up from your DVD some screen with a count-down will show up, if you hit some key during this you'll get to the prompt where you can hit your boot command, should look like this:

If the 9.7 Kernel gives you a panic also you may try the ToH Kernel, which is on the DVD also by using "/toh" as boot command. Hope one of them will work for you.

Field Note #6 @milanca 2009-08-24

From the last picure, your Mac paniced (kernel panic), do not use this kernel. From the first picture, as they guys told you, you had issues cause by bad media, dvd or dvd-rw was bad. Still waiting for root device, you should check a little more about this issue; you have links here at the forum regarding possible solutions, means that installation can't find driver for your chipset controller. It means that you will have to manually re-pack installation, inject driver, and then install from that newly created dvd. You can do it from other Mac or within Win using Transmac (search the net how to do it). Other solution is to try to find the distro with already included drivers for your chipset controller.

Regards,
-milanca

Field Note #7 @proti 2009-09-19 ↳ Re: @D1mk3
@D1mk3When I type /mach_970 ---> When I type /toh to white screen whit apple on mid loads more than hour and still nothing happens What now?

In my case, booting with -f solved that kind of panic;

Sources & Contributor Provenance (5 credited usernames · Thread #3591)
UsernameDossier ContributionDispatchesActive Window
@D1mk3Primary Author72009-08-09 → 2009-08-21
@ImkantusCore Contributor42009-08-13 → 2009-08-17
@MatthewH12Contributor12009-08-13
@milancaContributor12009-08-24
@protiContributor12009-09-19