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I found a link to an iso for Leopard 10.5.2-EFI  on the web.  Had to use bittorrent-console on Fedora 9 to download it.  It took almost 3 (calendar) days to get the blessed thing.

When I finally got it, it booted on the homebrew AMD machine, and made me think it was going to install just fine.  Little did I know.

The system is an Elitegroup GeForce6100PM-M2 nForce 430 with an MCP61 controller chip (which apparently controls nearly everything).   The onboard video is NVidia GeForce 6100.

These components are fairly common, and I bought them because they were cheap and well represented on the insanelymac forums.  Unfortunately, nobody is posting the exact choices they made during installation, so I’m left with a board that is supposed to be supported, but that has absolutely zero documentation for installation.

So far, I have installed the system 12-15 times from scratch.  I’m not sure how many times anymore, it’s all a blur.  At one point, I actually figured out how to get the thing to boot into OS X.  I actually had a running desktop for about 10 minutes.  Then I got hyper and decided to do a system update, which crapped the thing out.   I haven’t been able to get back to that point since then.   This is frustrating, but I am a persistent SOB, and now that I know it *can* be done, I will chew on it like a rabid chihuahua until I get it running again and post the installation options.  Wish me luck.