Can not get to the installation (10.5.2)

[guliath]

Hey i'm having a problem with the new dvd.

i boot from dvd, and hit f8, and -v, to see what's happening

the first thing i've noticed, is that it says there's no AppleNforceATA.kext found or something like that,

and later it says, disk2s2: unsupported mode, and other things related to that, and it seems to try over and over again, and finally the pc turns off, i've never seen anyone having this prblem!
and what's strage too, is that the 10.5.1 dvd that i have, enters the installation, but not the new one.


what should i do? please help!


mother: asus m2n-mx

cpu: amd athlon 64 x2 4200

ram: 2gb (4x 512mb) kingston

hard drives: 160 sata western digital (whith windows xp, and linux freespire in it) and 250gb sata II western digital (where i want to install osx)

drives: dvd-rw lg

[rumar4u]

Just in case, Not sure if will help but, try to De-Select your other HDD from the BIOS (put it to NONE) and try it again

[guliath]

yep i've already done that, the PROBLEM is when it says

disk2s2: unsupported mode

it also says that it's unable to write the root, something like that, that it's read-only, i'm saying what i remember, cause i have only this pc.

the AppleNforceATA.kext thing, is different, it says that no drives are found, but AppleNforceATA.kext it IS found

[guliath]

please someone help

[eddie11c]

The install DVD will always show that the root file system is read only, as it's on a DVD. If AppleNforceATA is not finding any drives then there is a problem as your vendor ID is supported. You could try moving your disks around, make sure the DVD is on the primary IDE channel, and just hook the one SATA port your going to use up. Completely disconnect the others.

[guliath]

thanx eddie, so i should try disconnecting the other hdds, and changing the hdd that i'm planing to use from one sata to other to see if it works?

i've already tried with the other hdd disconected anyways.

any ideas?

[guliath]

and what about the disk2s2: "unsupported mode" thing?

(by the way, it's not always disk2s2, when i tried swiching hdds or things like that, it was disk1s2, and on other ocation was disk2s3)

[eddie11c]

You could try changing the mode of the drive in the BIOS, I can only guess unsupported mode has something to do with the UDMA mode. Or perhaps if there is nothing else on the drive try doing a fresh format on it first.

[guliath]

thanx, i've tried changing the udma mode a thousand times, and did not work anyways, i don't know what to do.

i've now noticed that when i boot from the old dvd, it does not search for drive units.

in the 10.5.2 it says at first "1 unit found-", and later "0 units found"

and after saying Launched version 5.0

it starts coming disk1s2: unsupported mode, again and again

[eddie11c]

what partitions do you have on the disk already? whats on partition 2?