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Hi.

 

first: Great Guide. Thanks

 

Everything works fine. But I can not boot into the Installtion on my harddisk.

Black Screen blinking cursor ( blinking _ )

After i installed leopard following these directions i got a black screen with a blinking cursor, Leopard would not boot...

 

The partition is activated.

 

I have two Harddisk. Primary Master is Windows XP and on the Primary Slave I installed MacOSX 10.5.1

 

Why is MacOSX not booting?

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Well, I finally got iAtkos to boot up. The problem was that I was using r1. I had to upgrade. Easy enough.

 

 

The TROUBLE now is that my installation hangs or freezes about 3/4ths of the way through. It installs but the blue bar makes no progress past a point right under the volume name. The bar animation was active for a while but after 30 mins or so it stopped moving entirely. The mouse still moves but if I click anywhere it turns into a spinning ball indefinitely. Anyone have any reasons why this might happen?

 

Specs:

P5NE-SLI

8800GT EVGA

2GB GSkill RAM

Q6600 core 2 quad processor

3 IDE hard drives

-30GB (Where Windows is installed)

-120GB Seagate (Free space volume - NTFS)

-120GB Maxtor - Mac OS X (Journaled)

 

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel like I'm so close...

 

EDIT 1 - I looked on this guide: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=87901&st=0 (as posted by VasH) and noticed some people have trouble with their DVD drive falling asleep and not resuming installation but solved it by moving the mouse periodically. I tried it and it didn't help. Still looking for a solution.

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use kalyway 10.5.1

 

Thanks for the response. I did run into a couple of problems... I'm not exactly sure what I did differently though. First off, I got the prohibitory symbol (The circle with the line through it) when trying to load into the installer. Then when I tried again later I got into the installer, but it froze as it was saying "Preparing for the installation"

 

Edit 1 - Fixed the preparing for installation freeze by booting with the following tags: -v -s cpus=1 -legacy. Completed the installation but I'm in blinking cursor hell now. Think I'll switch back to trying iAtkos.

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hi all

 

Nice guide.

I m trying installing kalaway Leopard on my P5N-E SLI today. During the installation, the lovely Leopard turn off my keyboard and mouse (both are PS/2), so that i cant type or choose anything. Help me please !!!!

 

P5N-E SLI

Core2Duo E6750

2gb 667 RAM

250gb SATA HDD (running Vista x64)

10gb IDE HDD (here will be Leo´s home)

DVD-RW SATA

Nvidia 8400GS

 

Updated: Working now with usb mouse (still dont have usb keyboard, hope i have not type anything during the installation and ps/2 will work in Leo later)

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New problem I think this one is simplier. I've successfully installed iAtkos r2. I got the blinking cursor but fixed it by booting from the DVD, using the -s command and making the drive active. The problem is that when the Darwin Bootloader starts, it won't boot into the system. No matter what I type it just refreshes and doesn't load the OS.

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Get the problem with the blinking cursor on the black screen. Tried EasyBCD 1.7 without success.

Tried chain0 method: The HDD LED shows something working. After (more than) 1 hour still the same black screen.

 

Here is the steps:

- Diskpart and so on in windows with id=af bla bla bla

- Boot with kalaway Leopard DVD

- Use Utilities >> Disk utilities to format the hdd (20gb IDE drive, setting as master)

*Nowhere to configure Darwin bootloader

- Customize installation

* first time, i checked the option with SSE2 bla bla and boot_efi_guid (all others unchecked), = installed successful but black screen on reboot. Tried EasyBCD and chain0.

* then, i tried without SSE2 = installation failed.

 

 

What is wrong ?

 

My system: C2D E6750, P5N-E SLI (Bios 803), 1x2GB Corsair 667, 20gb IDE, nForce 8400GS.

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you can install it on sata right away, thats what i did, just remove the applenforceata from the dvd you are using and put medevils applenforceata into ionetworkingfamily/contents/plugins

 

then after the install is done reboot to dvd again and add the kext the same way into the partition the system was installed on.

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Ok so how to

remove the applenforceata from the dvd
and how to
put medevils applenforceata into ionetworkingfamily/contents/plugins
? And where can I find medevils applenforceata ?

 

Other question : It seems that easyBCD only works with vista installed on the disk and unfortunatly, I don't have it installed, I'm on XP. So is there an issue for that ?

 

PS : I WONT install vista

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I installed like explained in the topic. But boot's not possible. Im using iATKOS v1 r2 (TPB)

I choose these options :

iATKOS v1.0i main system (of course)

Darwin efi bootloader

remove CPUPowerManagment

remove thermal kexts

 

When I boot normaly, the grey apple sceen asks me to reboot

when I boot in -v mode, I have a "kernel version..."

when I boot in -f cpus=1 I have a "kernel version..."

when I boot in -v -f cpus=1, I have a grey apple sceen asks me to reboot

 

I first tried with the VGA drivers, I rebooted over and over.

 

I tried installing SSE3 patchs on an already installed OSX, an error occured askin me to reboot.

 

Where am I wrong ?

 

Im using acronis os selector.

My config in my signature

 

Thanx

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  • 2 weeks later...

bonjour à tous,

j'ai réussi à installer kalyway 10.5.1 sur ma P5N32-SLI PLUS

 

au premier boot sur les DVD j'ai tapez

-s -x cpus=1

 

une fois l'install faite sur un IDE j'arrive à booter dessus en tapant:

tohkernel -x cpus=1

 

impossible de booter sans le safe mode (-x) et sans le tohkernel

 

j'ai reussi à faire fonctionner le reseau ethernet de la carte mere en revanche je n'ai rien trouvé pour l'instant pour le son.

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Hi,

 

I have attempted to do the install for the P5N-E SLI but I am having trouble. I have disabled the onboard firewire and SATA as required and I am able to boot by specifying -f -v cpus=1. I get to the part where it chooses the hard drive to install on and I go to the program that shows the detected hard drives and I am only seeing my USB drives, no Parallel ATA drive. I went into the system profiler and it is showing the Secondary channel DVD drive but it is not detecting my PATA drive on the primary channel. Is there anything I can do to get it to detect this? I am using the iATKOS v1.0ir2 disc that I downloaded off of TPB. Thanks for any information you can provide.

 

Daniel

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