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Hi everyone, I'm a bit of a lurker on this board and can usually answer all my questions by surfing the board for answers... but this one's got me a bit frazzled and I can't seem to find an answer on here.

 

I've been able to properly install Kalyway and iATKOS on my Inspiron 9400 laptop AND get both of them to boot into Leopard, however the success of this bootup is limited and intermittent.

 

On occasion, a very VERY rare occasion it will boot into Leopard and allow me to use the system. However, most of the time it will either hang at the gray apple logo and continue with the little dark gray pinwheel as if it were actually attempting to do something. This goes on for over a half hour with no end in sight. If I'm lucky enough for it to end it will... 90% of the time... simply restart the computer and get stuck in the same loop all over again.

 

My drive/partition is active and flagged for boot as it obviously passes the darwin bootloader stage... however I can't seem to figure out why it gets stuck here and have no idea how to fix it :\. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

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Hi everyone, I'm a bit of a lurker on this board and can usually answer all my questions by surfing the board for answers... but this one's got me a bit frazzled and I can't seem to find an answer on here.

 

I've been able to properly install Kalyway and iATKOS on my Inspiron 9400 laptop AND get both of them to boot into Leopard, however the success of this bootup is limited and intermittent.

 

On occasion, a very VERY rare occasion it will boot into Leopard and allow me to use the system. However, most of the time it will either hang at the gray apple logo and continue with the little dark gray pinwheel as if it were actually attempting to do something. This goes on for over a half hour with no end in sight. If I'm lucky enough for it to end it will... 90% of the time... simply restart the computer and get stuck in the same loop all over again.

 

My drive/partition is active and flagged for boot as it obviously passes the darwin bootloader stage... however I can't seem to figure out why it gets stuck here and have no idea how to fix it :\. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

I suggest you reinstall using a freshly burned copy with iATKOS. When I had my Leopard bricekd due to bad drivers, I popped in the CD, reinstalled (I did not format the drive), it fixed kernal issues and reinstalled old kexts, and it was able to load up again. You might have to reset your account into Administrator, so you can do that by popping in the disc again, and clicking on "Reset Password" and then clicking on the "System Administrator" account and go from there. Hope that helps, it worked for me :(

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what did you change? im new to this and don't know what patches or kexts. what bios settings do i need to change?

 

The settings I changed were:

 

ACPI APIC support enabled

ACPI suspend mode [s3] or [s2]

Configure SATA to AHCI

 

With the SATA to AHCI change, you need to adjust vista to support ATA (if you are dual booting)

 

As far as the settings I changed during install, I had to select legacy flag (since I have an AMD processor) and I de-selected the v anilla kernel. But thats different per whatever rig you are using.

 

For more info you can see the thread on the issues I was having here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry897527

 

 

hope it helps

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Press f8 on boot. Then type: cpus=1

 

This should fix your problem.

 

I'm having the same problem, and my presario crashed instead of taking forever to boot

 

Presario V2000

Intel Centrino 1.73 GHz SSE3

740MB PC2700 RAM

60GB Fujitsu HDD

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