Re: Asus N73 SV iBOOT kernel panic
OK so I found the mistake I tried to boot on an empty partiton
So I finally was able to boot on OSX DVD and there began the problem, I followed the tutorial on iboot+multibeast to upgrade to 10.6.8 but I always had a crash on the end of the update, so for now I'm staying on 10.6.3.
For I think all Asus N73 SV, it seems to be possible to have snow leopard without too much difficulties. I write here how I've done it, even if I think they are other way to reach the same place.
So 1st of all if you have a second HDD like me, the best is to remove the windows one and put or a ssd or the second one at this place. In the bios everything should be fine, you don't even need to change the booting order as you can select the booting device during the boot by pressing the esc key. Don't try as I did to boot on a usb key as I did to boot and then use your retail DVD as I did, the DVD won't be seen.
At this point, you are in Iboot where you should see the devices available to boot. Which is if you just replace the windows HDD by the second one IBoot and to windows HDD.
Remove the Iboot DVD from the drive and put the OSX one, then press f5. The IBoot icon has now disappeared and you have on the right the mac OSX icon.
After trying a lot of solutions, it seems that the only needed flag is PCIRootUID=1 (don't forget to enable the numpad by pressing the numlock key, or you can use the & key as the keyboard is seen as a QWERTY.then hit enter and wait (can take a minute or two)...
Select your language at prompt. Then, select in the top menu utilities and disk utilities, the HDD you want to use to install SL and format it as shown in the tutorial in GUID and HFS+. When it has finished close the disk utilitie and install SL as you want on the partition you just created.at the reboot be ready to change the disk in the drive or to select a live usb key with iboot. select the disk you just created, (the one with the apple logo) and use the same flag as above (PCIRootUID=1). Wait (for me it takes about 35 seconds to boot).
You are now in SL.
You can run multibeast and the 10.6.8 combo upgrade, but as I've said It didn't worked for me...
So what you have is SL
BUT screen is just 1024*768, sound buggy, trackpad doesn't work, and you need to boot on iboot to turn your computer on, else you are stuck on the apple image (without the wheel)
A last information to avoid losing all what I've done which might be your case
, I've divided my disk in two partitions, and before doing a change which might be harmful to my config, such as installing kext I use the disk utiliti to save my config on the second partiton. ( takes 20-30 min but saves hours)
If anyone has any idea on how to fix these problems let me know.
I'll try to update this thread as I found solutions.
Nicolas