No matter what options I select during the installation on my system (including the defaults with no drivers enabled), the installation crashes either during or just after the "payload verification" stage, with a kernel panic similar to this screen:


It looks like a disk problem (IOATA), and I am trying to install to a partition on a SATA disk. I should also mention that I see "unable to mount partition" messages with the -v flag during the installation boot from the DVD.

The BIOS is old (2007) and somewhat limited, but unless someone knows of an "unpublished" BIOS or mod for an ECS MCP61-PM AM motherboard (from a Gateway system ... what a nightmare they have been. never again ... ) I'm not sure what to do about that.

try pressing f8 at when install starts to boot and try the commands maxmem=2048 that was a problem i was haveing too and this fixed it perfectly.
no im just sitting at waiting for root device.. sigh.

Originally Posted by xargon321

try pressing f8 at when install starts to boot and try the commands maxmem=2048 that was a problem i was haveing too and this fixed it perfectly.

Yup, that was part of the problem, and I am able to boot with:

Code:

-v -f maxmem=2048 debug=0x100

Originally Posted by xargon321

no im just sitting at waiting for root device.. sigh.

I got that too after an install, and I ended up having to wipe the disk and reinstall using different drivers. I think it may have to do with a bad driver selection during the installation.

Now I have it booting (with the above flags) to a Voodoo 9.7.0 kernel, and the display seems to be working fine, that's about it. No audio (onboard Realtek 888), no Ethernet (onboard Marvell Yukon 88E8039), no Firewire, etc. But at least its booting this far.

I have solution for this case, we can use the this driver
1.Install Mac OSX 10.5.6 ( not Ikatos ) this version can accept this card
2.Copy IONetworkingFamily.kext to USB
3.Intall Mac OSX 10.5.7 (Ikatos ), when finish still not recognize the this card
4. copy from USB file IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/AppleYukon.kext/Contents/info.plist to /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/AppleYukon.kext/Contents/info.plist
( remmember sudo -s )
5.sudo -s
cd /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins
chown -R root:wheel AppleYukon.kext
chmod -R 755 AppleYukon.kext
kextload AppleYukon.kext ( this still has error but don't care )
6.Restart and after we can use the Internet ( please set up IP for card )