Blinking cursor on boot with Dell Latitude D830 (Resolved)

[Zach the Lizard]

Hi,

 

I downloaded the Kalway Leopard 10.5.1 DVD and succesfully installed (but not booted) Leopard on my Dell Latitude D830. It would appear as though my laptop is supported, but I must be doing something wrong. The media checks out, and installed succesfully so far as I can tell.

 

Whenever I try to boot off the Leopard partition, all I see is a blinking cursor. I have tried the following commands from the terminal on the installation disk, but they do not appear to work.

 

$ fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (the disk Leopard installed to)

$ f 1 (partition installed to)

$ w

It then says "Cannot get exclusive access to rdisk0s1. Reboot to complete install? [n]" Or something to that effect. I say yes (y) and then it says it wrote to the MBR, as would be expected.

$q

 

When I use $sudo -s as some guides suggest, it complains sudo is not installed. So I wonder if my troubles have to do with the fact that I cannot run these commands as root.

 

Is there a way to use the install disk to boot or chroot into Leopard? I have tried the "Startup Disks" utility, but it lists only something like "Search for network disks" or somesuch.

 

Another wild guess I have is that it could be graphic driver related.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

EDIT

 

I managed to resolve this issue by formatting my hard drive and using a single word as the name. I had previously used "Mac OS X" as the name, and the use of this caused it to not boot up. So, word to the wise, make sure you use a single name.