Asus P5QL Pro - What Distribution?

**jordo947** · 01-21-2009 04:23 AM

Okay well, before i built my new rig I had OSX86 installed on my laptop; from a Kalyway DVD. Well now i would like to dual boot on my new rig, I have three partitions made, one for Vista, one for OSX, and one to share data between operating systems. I have tried many different releases, such as iAtkos 5i, JaS 10.5, Kalyway, and Leo4allv3 but none of them seem to work. I cannot reach the install screen in any of them. Before, I thought it was because I have an IDE DVD drive. But I purchased a new SATA drive and it still won't work. Here are my specs, and any help is greatly appreciated.

Asus P5QL Pro
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4
4gb DDR2 RAM
Geforce 9500 512mb
160gb Seagate HD-SATA
LG DVD burner-IDE
Asus DVD drive-SATA

-thanks guys

**deesto** · 01-21-2009 05:07 AM

I would think IDE would be even simpler to get working than SATA. I have been told that it depends very much on your chipset whether a release will work. I have an AMD CPU and an nForce chipset, and I can get through the install phase of almost any distribution, but rebooting and booting up the OSX partition is a different story ... I'm still looking for one that works properly for my system. But I would search for osx86 and whatever chipset your motherboard uses, and see if any releases return any promising advice.

**icchansan** · 01-21-2009 05:15 AM

Originally Posted by jordo947

Okay well, before i built my new rig I had OSX86 installed on my laptop; from a Kalyway DVD. Well now i would like to dual boot on my new rig, I have three partitions made, one for Vista, one for OSX, and one to share data between operating systems. I have tried many different releases, such as iAtkos 5i, JaS 10.5, Kalyway, and Leo4allv3 but none of them seem to work. I cannot reach the install screen in any of them. Before, I thought it was because I have an IDE DVD drive. But I purchased a new SATA drive and it still won't work. Here are my specs, and any help is greatly appreciated.

Asus P5QL Pro
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4
4gb DDR2 RAM
Geforce 9500 512mb
160gb Seagate HD-SATA
LG DVD burner-IDE
Asus DVD drive-SATA

-thanks guys

Hiya there, you have 2 choices:

1- MOD your BIOS to get working the system with full cores and will run any distro after MOD.
2- Install retail with 132 bootloader using DSDT Patch

Here is your BIOS MOD.

And check here to read about how to install retail

Good luck and SATA ftw

**jordo947** · 01-22-2009 12:23 AM

Okay thanks, but I'm a bit of a noob and don't know how to install a modded bios...you have any tips?

-thanks

**icchansan** · 01-22-2009 01:19 AM

If you decide to mod your bios you can do it using afuwin, read my tutorial, the link is in my signature, just read about how to mod, the guide is just for hp pavilions.

P.S. Dont forget to backup your bios

**jordo947** · 01-22-2009 02:36 AM

Alright thanks, i figured it out and it worked. Thank you so much icchansan.

**macintoff** · 03-03-2009 08:05 PM

hey there icchansan,

just a quick question, iva P5QL Pro, if i were to do the boot132, dsdt patched, zero-modification Retail method, Do i still need to mod my bios?

**icchansan** · 03-06-2009 10:34 PM

Nope dont need to MOD, dsdt patch will do the job

**frostbyte211** · 09-18-2009 12:01 AM

Originally Posted by icchansan

Nope dont need to MOD, dsdt patch will do the job

Hi there I was wondering if you could help me out, for so long i have been trying to find out how to get osx on my P5QL PRO and stumble upon this forum

Is there a guide somewhere or could you tell me exactly what you mean with you second choice

I want to install from retail but have no idea what choice 2 means (install retail with 132 bootloader using DSDT patch), if I had a step by step guide for it I'm sure I could figure it out

Thank you very much

Hiya there, you have 2 choices:

1- MOD your BIOS to get working the system with full cores and will run any distro after MOD.
2- Install retail with 132 bootloader using DSDT Patch