Rhamhoy Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Ok i've been trying this for about 6 hours easily now, I've looked all over the place for solutions and I just can't find any. I can get the DVD to boot to the GUI stage and then open disk utility. I then select the partition I created and try to erase it and format it to OSX Extended Journaled. When I do this it says unmounting drive, then I believe it says preparing to erase. At this stage the installation freezes. I've tried this many times and it never gets past this stage. I'm using ToH 10.5 according to the DVD. When the bootloader starts I use the options -v -x -f cpus=1. These options have got me further than any others. Before I was not using cpus=1 and it froze when I opened the disk utility. My spec is GIGABYTE N650SLI-DS4L nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB 2GB of RAM Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Maxtor 80GB Seagate 400GB I'm trying to install Leopard on a 30GB partition on the Seagate drive. My BIOS has the following settings CPU Thermal settings disabled Onboard audio disabled Multithreading disabled USB set to V 1.1 I'm really stuck here if anyone has any suggestions please let me know Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114335-completely-stuck-at-partitioning/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhamhoy Posted July 6, 2008 Author Share Posted July 6, 2008 BUMP Update I created a partition with diskpart which is showing as OSX Journaled format which I highly doubt it is. However Disk utility will not mount, verify or repair the partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114335-completely-stuck-at-partitioning/#findComment-809732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhamhoy Posted July 7, 2008 Author Share Posted July 7, 2008 BUMPHas no one got any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114335-completely-stuck-at-partitioning/#findComment-810309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoMax Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Download MacDrive for your PC and use it to partition the disk before you install Leopard. After install you may need to reboot in single user mode and use fdisk to write the MBR and make the partition bootable. Good luck. NM Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114335-completely-stuck-at-partitioning/#findComment-810515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhamhoy Posted July 7, 2008 Author Share Posted July 7, 2008 Thanks for replying, i'd almost given up hope lol. I'll try that out and hopefully things will go smoothly, i'll let you know how it goes. Update Ok got MacDrive but can't see the partition I wanted to use showing up on it, which appears in PartitionMagic or diskpart in "Type AF" format. I created another partition under NTFS format and it seems that MacDrive will only view this partition and nothing more. Am I doing something terribly wrong here? Just to confirm, i'm trying to install OS X on a drive that has 2 partitions, one full of lots of files and another empty for the OS X installation. Update I managed to format one of the drives, I now have an HFS+ partition. But now the installer won't boot! I get a kernel panic. It keeps mentioning ATA slow to respond, or device is buy or is blocked. This wasn't coming up before. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114335-completely-stuck-at-partitioning/#findComment-810702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhamhoy Posted July 8, 2008 Author Share Posted July 8, 2008 Ok found the problem. The HFS+ formatted drive apparently caused the panic. When formatted the drive under NTFS settings the DVD boot again. This time I tried to format an entire drive and not a partition in the HFS+ format. Once again it froze while in the process. I'm now assuming that my hardware is simply not compatible with the the software. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114335-completely-stuck-at-partitioning/#findComment-811115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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