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Old 05-22-2009, 01:38 AM
hardcoded hardcoded is offline
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Join Date: May 2009
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iDeneb 1.4 on an ASUS M3A78

Greetings.

I'm fairly knowledgeable with PCs but I'm new to the OSx86 scene so please, bear with me. I'm desperately trying to get iDeneb to work on my computer. So far, I tried 2 distros, iDeneb and iPC, both being 10.5.6. releases. I've read various posts on multiple forums and there are numerous success stories about iDeneb and my chipset model so this is what I choose to stick to. These are my hardware specs.:

- Athlon 64 X2 5400+
- 4GB 800MHz DDR2 RAM
- ASUS M3A78 motherboard (AMD770/SB700 chipset)
- PNY Geforce 9800 GT 1024MB
- USB mouse & keyboard
- SATA HD and DVD

ACPI mode is set to S1. SATA mode is set to AHCI. The HD (320GB capacity) is partitioned 50/50 between NTFS (Vista 64) and HFS+ Journaled. Dual boot was sorted out via the bcdedit/chain0 method and is working fine. Based on my research, I came up with the following driver list:

- Voodoo 9.5.0 kernel
- AppleATIATA
- AppleSMBIOS 800
- Seatbelt Fix
- ALC1200 audio
- Realtek R1000 ethernet interface
- NVInject 0.2.1 1024MB

The media is verified to be consistent and the installation happens quickly. It then hangs in the first boot, right after the blue screen then halts at a grey screen with only the mouse cursor (moveable) showing. This happens regardless of boot flag used (-v, -x, -f and "Graphics Mode").

I know I'm almost there and it's just a matter of choosing the right packages. For this, I turn to you, OSx86 community. Please, help a newbie.

Many thanks.

Edison

Last edited by hardcoded; 05-22-2009 at 01:51 AM.
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