jagger27 Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Ok, so I got passed the installer, it reboots fine, but I can't get passed this ever looping "Before You Begin..." thing. First, it says: "Your keyboard cannot be identified and will not be usable until it is identified. To identify this keyboard click OK" I click OK. Second: It asks me to press the "Z" key (to the right of the left shift key) and it recognizes it and then it asks me to press the "?" key. It works... Third: It says that my keyboard has been identified. It gives me the option between ANSI (US and Others), ISO (European) and JIS (Japanese). I have tried all 3 with no luck. I press continue. Fourth: Then it asks me my country and says later on it will be for the .Mac account signup (haven't seen that yet). No matter what I choose it doesn't work. I press continue. Fifth: It asks for me to select my keyboard (US or Canadian English or Show All in a checkbox). I press continue. Sixth: Do you already own a mac? Would you like to transfer your info? (from another mac, from another volume, from a Time Machine backup or do not transfer my info now) I choose do not transfer. After that it freezes for about a minute and goes back to the welcome video (very nice ). I really hope someone can help me out! Thanks a lot, Jagger Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118553-leopard-1054-lawless-issues/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagger27 Posted July 31, 2008 Author Share Posted July 31, 2008 bump Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118553-leopard-1054-lawless-issues/#findComment-840179 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyn1x Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Hi jagger27, You should ask over at the AMD OSX86 forum here. You'll be able to ask LawlessPPC himself Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118553-leopard-1054-lawless-issues/#findComment-840201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagger27 Posted July 31, 2008 Author Share Posted July 31, 2008 Thanks Poot, I applied for an account but the way the forum is setup makes me have to be confirmed by the admin. I have tried to use all of the option (-x, -s, -f and -v) and none of them have made any difference except with safemode it didn't show the welcome video. My specs are: Dell E521 AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 3GB DDR2 667MHz (2GB Dell, 1GB Kingston) 250GB SATA Western Digital HDD (iffy) ATI Radeon x1600 PCIe (the drivers are on that disk) On-board Ethernet Broadcom 440x (can I get some kexts for this??) I know my chipset is an nForce but I believe that it might be causing problems Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118553-leopard-1054-lawless-issues/#findComment-840473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 Search for "welcome loop" in these forums. There are countless posts and solutions for the issue. The issue is caused by no usable network card, sometimes just enabling Com1 or a firewire port has fixed the issue Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118553-leopard-1054-lawless-issues/#findComment-840641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redalert Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 Gujal is right "ENABLE" IEEE 1394 (Firewire) interface in BIOS should fix the issue Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118553-leopard-1054-lawless-issues/#findComment-840865 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagger27 Posted August 1, 2008 Author Share Posted August 1, 2008 It really sucks because my stupid Dell only has USB and 5.1 on-board sound... No PS/2, no com and no Firewire. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118553-leopard-1054-lawless-issues/#findComment-840902 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyMiller Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 If you havent found a fix yet, you can always do this... -boot to the install CD -Reset Password -Choose the Root user of the HD and chage the password to something easy reboot with -s at pompt type the following mount -uw / touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone exit when it boots, it will go to the log in screen, type in root as the user and then the password you chose earlier. it will log in-go to Sys Prefs-Accounts and create an account for normal use log out of Root-log in with your new account. There ya go. It really sucks because my stupid Dell only has USB and 5.1 on-board sound... No PS/2, no com and no Firewire. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118553-leopard-1054-lawless-issues/#findComment-840917 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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