Sweet&Nice Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 Hello, i've downloaded SnowOSX 3.5 and i'm trying to boot it up on my P6T-SE motherboard. My problem is that when i chose the CD drive as the boot device, the disk loads up like a boot-132 disk, it asks me for flags, if i press enter, it asks me for two digit hex decimal boot device. If i type 80, it boots the first harddrive (with a failed leo install) if i type 81, it goes back to kernel flags, if i press enter it goes back to kernel flags. How do i boot from this disk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innerz Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 You must leave "9f" by default (DVD drive). After install boot with "80". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^_^ Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 when it ask for digit hex, swap to osx install disk then press enter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet&Nice Posted September 2, 2009 Author Share Posted September 2, 2009 I tried "9f", it still goes back to asking me for kernel flags, if i press enter, it goes to asking me for the boot device number. I's a never-ending loop. I want to boot from the SnowOSX dvd, not the retail. I've seen my other distro's of Leopard that i've got, and tey just simply boot up fine with Darwin's boootloader, with the countdown to press F8 and -v etc. I don't understand why SnowOSX doesn't have this? How do i boot this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innerz Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 If you boot properly on the DVD, you'll have the command prompt by pressing F8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet&Nice Posted September 2, 2009 Author Share Posted September 2, 2009 F8 does not do anything at all unlike the other leopard distros, maybe i must edit something in the ISO of SnowOSX? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innerz Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 Your DVD Drive is IDE or SATA ? If SATA try to plug it on another connector. In the BIOS you must be in AHCI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet&Nice Posted September 2, 2009 Author Share Posted September 2, 2009 My DVD drive is IDE, and my harddrive is SATA. I have nothing plugged in but those two devices. The DVD drive is master. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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