Good day. I have been trying to install iDeneb 1.3 10.5.5 for the past week. After many infinite boot issues, kernel panics, and dragon attacks, I had a major breakthrough yesterday; it finally installed successfully (sleep kernel 9.2 and NVInject video driver)! However, now I can ONLY boot in safe mode.

Whenever I try a regular boot, I get the black screen with a cursor. I KIIIINDA fixed this by changing my resolution to 1024x768 at the terminal. Now, instead of a black screen with a cursor, I have the pretty blue screen with a cursor.

Which, surprisingly decreases my level of pissed-offedness. . . . but only slightly.

Anyway, here are my specs:

Proc: Intel Core 2 Duo
Board: NVIDIA GeForce 7150/nForce 630i integrated chipset
Video: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
RAM: 2GB
HDD: 500GB SATA (install)/ 1TB SATA

Is anything else relevant? If so, ask and I'll figure it out and post.

My goal is to have a complete OSX86 system (where complete == wifi + sound + USB functional). Is this possible with my specs??? If not, please tell me and I'll (maybe) quit wasting my time.

Thanks for any help!
-Thomas

Check this guide for Nforce 630i mobos, to get fully support

For your video check here

WOO HOO!! Thank you very muchas gracias much! I'm about to try it now!

De nada, post back if you have any issue

Originally Posted by icchansan

De nada, post back if you have any issue

Still having issues. . . I can't get my USB working. I have Kalyway 10.5.2, did the Kalyway Combo Update to 10.5.3 using sleep kernel 9.2.0. I installed the 9.2.0 system.kext, still didn't get USB to work. Then I tried the usb_fix_1.3.mpkg posted by Mysticus C, USB still doesn't work.

I think I'm going to start over. Which distro would you recommend for my specs? Currently, I HAVE iDeneb 1.3 10.5.5 (Fail), Kalyway 10.5.2 (Failing), and JaS 10.5.4 (unfailed-as-of-yet).

Is there anything I can post to help with my diagnosis? I'm kinda a newbie. . . I guess, somewhere in between complete-newbie and intermediate-beginner.

Oh yeah, and I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I have two SATA drives. One is 500 GB (OSX installation), and the other is 1 TB (Tiny XP, Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.10, and Blag 90k). I'd like to trip...no, quad-(and probably more)-boot when it's all said and done.

Thanks for your help!
-Thomas

Eh try iatkos, to fix USB try this one,there some guides to fix USB, google it

OK. . . I'm trying iAtkos v5i 10.5.5 and the disk won't even boot - it resets/ kernel panics all over itself. I've adjusted all my BIOS settings (that I can think of), and still get the same results. I've toggled AHCI on/off, made sure NX bit is enabled, and...actually that's it.

Any suggestions? I guess I could go back to Kalyway, but I prefer iAtkos, since it seems more advanced. Please lemme know!

Thanks!
-Thomas

Wow. . . RIGHT after I posted that, I rebooted (for like the 1,348th time) and WHAMMY! iAtkos disk booted!

Going through it now - will post progress.

Edit 1 - 8:33 pm: Stuck on blank screen with nice wallpaper and spinning pinwheel for 10 minutes now . Bouta eat and come back.

Edit 2 - 9:53 pm: Restarted another hundred times. Same luck: none. Still trying.

Edit 3 - 10:30 pm: Checked out link in icchansan's signature on how to install iAtkos. Booted with "cpus=1" flag, and voila. . . so far so good

Reinstalling with these parameters:

iATKOS v5i Main System
Bootloader
-----PC EFI V9

x86 Patches
-----Decrypters
----------AppleDecrypt
-----SMBIOS drivers
----------SMBIOS Enablers
---------------SMBIOS-EFI
-----Kernel
----------Vanilla Kernel (nothing selected)
-----ACPI
----------Stock ACPI modified
-----Disabler.kext
-----OHR

Drivers
-----VGA
----------nVidia
---------------NVinject
----------EFI strings for nVidia
---------------8xxx
--------------------8600 GT 256MB
-----System
----------SATA/IDE (All)
----------Speedstep (All)
----------ext2fs
----------NTFS-3G
-----Network (All)

Will post results

Still didn't frickin work!!!!! Keeps rebooting!

Please help!