I'm trying to install Snow Leopard onto a freshly built Opti 745 (must be SL, because MUST have Rosetta). I have built a MyHack install USB following the preinstall instructions, using the bootpack from the downloads section (Opti 745, Snow Leopard build).
My configuration is this:
Opti 745
C2D 1.86
2GB Ram
320GB WD Caviar 7800RPM in two partitions - 1) Mac OS X Journaled for Mac OS, 2) NTFS with Windows already installed.
ATI Radeon X1300 Pro 256mb
Belkin 54g Wifi PCI card (v1000 Broadcom version)
When I start it up, it freezes almost instantly, in verbose it complains about a Non-POSTed ATI card (which works fine under WinXP), then a line about an improper number of ports, then hang.
So I thought, okay, I'll take out the video card. I do, and the installer boots completely and takes me to the OS install, but when I get to the point of selecting a drive to install to, none of the hard disk partitions are visible. Launch Disk Utility from the installer, same thing, no disks visible.
So what all am I doing wrong? I'm assuming I have to have some bios settings set differently.