Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)

[wongbingo]

[cite] eMatoS:[/cite]That's exactly the same error as mine! And I'm also booting the installation from a HD partition. I'll try to burn a DVD and see what happens. this is the screenshot, sorry for the painfull quality it's taken with my cellphone. EDIT: you're right!!!! it passed that error, and then gave me another one, SAM Multimedia Error. I've checked and it's related to a bad DVD, so I'll try again, damned toast!

Hi eMatos,

I have exactly the same error as yours and still stucks at there now.
Would you pls tell me how to slove it? Thanks for your help!!!!!!!!!!

[computeruser26]

Sorry I am new to this form. Can some one please tell me where i can find the instructions on how to install Zephyroth's leopard version on my pc

[azazthot]

Hello, people. I really need help - I feel that I am almost there.This is my specs:
Athlon 64 3000+ (sse2 only)
nforce4
via chipset
GeForce 8500GT 512mb
LAN geforce onboard
HDs:
10G IDE - Tiger (10.4.9 tubgirl - works perfect)
80G sata - Vista
200 sata -part1: Leopard
part2: empty (for backup)
Problem:
Install kernell 9.0.0 (because of sse2 only proc), EFI v8 MBR, viasata kext, nforce 2/3/4/5
nforce lan, Zeph's nvinject.
Install go perfect.First boot - kernel panic wiyh EFI.runtime - deleted
Second boot - kernel panic with intelCPUpower... - deleted
Third boot - boots fine, but hangs with grey screen and mouse pointer rolling for hours ( tried to leave overnight - still the same - just hangs)
Already tried: -x -v -f in all combinations

Please, help me to figure out what I am doing wrong and how to fix it. Thanx.

[lghe44]

Installation problem on hp presario v3159au laptop
Disk Utility works perfectly with this version, but crashed to terminal during the installation in about 2 minutes before completion, it read "ReportCrash [779]: mkdir() failed to create /Library/Logs with error: Read-only file system", can anyone give some helps?

thanks in advance!

[K235]

[cite] freshcuts:[/cite]I see.On MSI alc850 works. On my asus no...

Hey Freshcuts, I had the same problem with the same Motherboard as you and stumbled on a solution that made my sound work in Leopard 1.5.2:
In the bios configration disable the IEEE1394, enable the AC97 Audio BUT disable the game port and the MIDI Interrupts (AC97 = Enabled, Game Port = Disabled, MIDI Port Address = Disabled, MIDI Port IRQ = Disabled).
Once this is done, your soundcard should work with the AC97 Kexts you already modified, if not I will upload the kexts (with codecs) I installed on mine.

I hope this will help anyone with such a problem.

[JoeTheWise]

Maybe you are right K235, on my A8N SLI I always had that configuration in BIOS (I never used the game and MIDI ports on PC in my all life...) and audio with AC97 always worked from MacOS X 10.4.8 to 10.5.2...

[K235]

[cite] JoeTheWise:[/cite]Maybe you are right K235, on my A8N SLI I always had that configuration in BIOS (I never used the game and MIDI ports on PC in my all life...) and audio with AC97 always worked from MacOS X 10.4.8 to 10.5.2...

So I may actually be on to something

Now the only problem is to understand why those settings are impeding the ALC850 to work when turned on... a conflict between the MPU401 and the actual SP or maybe the fact that the MPU401 is obsolete and therefore (may) not being supported by OSX... that's the dilemma... I'll post some more findings as soon as I'll be back home, thinking of fiddling around with the IRQs and Memory addresses of the devices.

[eMatoS]

K235 and JoeTheWise
In my A8N-SLI I always had midi and game port active, and it always worked out of the box. Anyway, you should try, perhaps your motherboard gives different IRQ directions to ports.

[cite] wongbingo:[/cite] [cite] eMatoS:[/cite]That's exactly the same error as mine! And I'm also booting the installation from a HD partition. I'll try to burn a DVD and see what happens. this is the screenshot, sorry for the painfull quality it's taken with my cellphone. EDIT: you're right!!!! it passed that error, and then gave me another one, SAM Multimedia Error. I've checked and it's related to a bad DVD, so I'll try again, damned toast! Hi eMatos, I have exactly the same error as yours and still stucks at there now. Would you pls tell me how to slove it? Thanks for your help!!!!!!!!!!

My error was to install from my HD, so I burned a DVD and it worked fine. Hope that's your problem too.

Good luck!!!

[K235]

[cite] eMatoS:[/cite]K235 and JoeTheWise In my A8N-SLI I always had midi and game port active, and it always worked out of the box. Anyway, you should try, perhaps your motherboard gives different IRQ directions to ports. My error was to install from my HD, so I burned a DVD and it worked fine. Hope that's your problem too. Good luck!!!

I actually installed it from a DVD (burned at 4X) as well and believe me, there was no stone I left unturned, looked at more than a fair share of discussions and tried everything (including re-installing OSX about 3 or 4 times... sigh) - I guess it may be a "problem" with the Premium version of the A8N-SLI or maybe the date of purchase may influence this factor (newer versions of the motherboard???) - only ASUS would be able to track the issues... but somehow I do not think they'd like to be involved

[eMatoS]

What about the Bios update?
It seems the last one is 1303, although some people got back to 1302 and older due to some issues.
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20070217064414981&board_id=1&model=A8 N-SLI+Premium&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

Check the ASUS forum:
http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=1&model=A8N-SLI+Premium&SLanguage=en-us

There seems to be manys problems with the onboard sound device, maybe there's a workaround for you.
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20080105065334656&board_id=1&model=A8 N-SLI+Premium&page=1&SLanguage=en-us


I don't know where I got it from but my bios is rev 1604, and the official sites have the 1603 as last beta, maybe there's a newer version for the premium hidden in the net.