mishmumken Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Hi all, I'm currently trying to install Kalyway Leopard on my Asus F5SL notebook, but just can't get it to work. The disc boots up fine, but when the installer window comes up no hard disks are available. Tried Disk Utility, but the same thing happens: there is not a single disk icon in sight. This is the situation: two partitions, one running XP Pro, the other supposed to contain OS X. Tried to format the OS X partition as FAT32, Linux and also tried to leave it unallocated - no go. Tried to make the partition active/primary - same old, same old ... My specs: Asus F5SL - Intel Core2Duo T5550 1.8 Ghz - ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 - Chipset SiS 671DX/968 I've searched the forum and have to say that, while I'm not new to mac, the whole thing seems quite complicated to me I'm not at all familiar with command lines, so if there's any advice that you can give me, try and make it simple Should I get another distro? Try Tiger? Flash the BIOS? Or is it just my incapability of setting the right parameters for the partition. Any help will be greatly appreciated mish Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115515-disk-utility-not-recognizing-disk/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishmumken Posted July 14, 2008 Author Share Posted July 14, 2008 bump did nobody try to install on an asus laptop? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115515-disk-utility-not-recognizing-disk/#findComment-818840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kytzu Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 if your disk is not recognized at all, it's not because of partitioning. play in bios (even flash it) with sata/raid/ahci settings (switch between them) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115515-disk-utility-not-recognizing-disk/#findComment-818910 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishmumken Posted July 15, 2008 Author Share Posted July 15, 2008 hi kytzu, thanks for the advice ... I'll give it a try, although I've looked at the BIOS before and can't seem to find the settings Update: I tried JaS 10.4.8 - no go the disk is not recognized then booted with a USB dongle inserted and sure as hell it showed up in disk utility, so if the BIOS tweak doesn't work I might try to install on an external USB drive. I wonder if you can clone that installation back to the intenal HDD ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115515-disk-utility-not-recognizing-disk/#findComment-819854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal96 Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 bump! i also have the same problem with the Jas Mac 10.4.8. doesnt reconise the hdd space on a Toshiba Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115515-disk-utility-not-recognizing-disk/#findComment-820116 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishmumken Posted July 15, 2008 Author Share Posted July 15, 2008 well, I can't seem to find the right options in the BIOS - maybe it's just me, but I don't think this particular BIOS has those options ... as happens sometimes on laptops. So I'll try to install to an external USB drive, then (hopefully) clone it from there ... A word about the BIOS: my version is 300, the newest version is 301 (from asus.com). I found a number of complains from users with a BIOS flash gone bad floating around the net, so I'll abstain for the moment. For anybody who is daring enough to try, a guy named kabyl is hacking into BIOS to make them work. There's a lot of praise for him, but be careful: if your machine doesn't start anymore you're screwed ... you can find kabyl here ( ... and yeah, he does take requests!): http://osrom.net/biosmod/ I'll post back when and if I manage to install OS X on an external drive ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115515-disk-utility-not-recognizing-disk/#findComment-820562 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ennis911 Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 I've installed Ideneb 10.5.5 in my Asus F/SE laptop. This is what i did: I have two partitions C and D. I opened disk manager in Vista (right click my computer Manage. Reduce C volume and letf 20 Gb free without formating. Then opened cmd, diskpart, select disk 0, create partition primary id=af. No need to set the new partition active. Restarted computer from Ideneb DVD -v and when the installer window came up, selected disk utility, erased and named the partition and that's it. After the installation, started vista again, installed easy BCD, added mac bootloader (second). When i restarted i could choose Vista or Leopard. Sorry for my English. I'm from Spain. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115515-disk-utility-not-recognizing-disk/#findComment-919969 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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