Sanad Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 Just installed Jas 10.5.4 Server build and it installed beautifully but it isnt booting. I partitioned the drive as MBR and Mac OS Journaled and then named it leopard and installed on that partition. Now when the pc boots, it asks me to choose the partition to boot from. choose leopard then it turns off and restarts. It doesnt go past that! Anywhere i went wrong? Some command i need to enter or something? Please help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 HP laptop tells us nothing. Specs? Model? =s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanad Posted August 31, 2008 Author Share Posted August 31, 2008 Pavilion ZE2160EA: Pentium M 1.8Ghz 512MB Ram Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 80gb hdd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanad Posted August 31, 2008 Author Share Posted August 31, 2008 I tried this after opening terminal from boot cd; fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 1 update write quit Still not booting. Goes to grey apple screen and reboots. I have 3 partition. two 7 gb each and one 62gb. One of the 7 gb is mac os journaled and mbr. I reinstalled leopard on it and did the above procedure as well. No use. What dyou guys suggest i do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 What kernel did you choose during install? Because your laptop will reboot if you try to run vanilla kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanad Posted September 1, 2008 Author Share Posted September 1, 2008 i installed the TOH kernel for sse2/sse3. This takes me to the grey apple screen which stays till eternity. Doesnt go beyond that. I installed absolutely no extra driver. Just the default settings with the ToH kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Earlier you said it keeps rebooting and now you say it stays at Grey Screen forever? If it is the latter boot with "-f -v" without the quotes and see where it gets stuck. -f makes it rebuild kext cache -v makes it boot in verbose mode, so you can see error messages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanad Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 when i installed first, i used vanilla kernel and it restarted. Now i used the toh kernel and it stops at grey screen. Tried -f and -v. It stops at black screen. My laptop is single core 1.8 ghz pentium M. So its sse 2 or 3? What drivers should i choose before install? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanad Posted September 3, 2008 Author Share Posted September 3, 2008 started in -v and it gives me still waiting for root device error. started in -v and it gives me still waiting for root device error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 My laptop is single core 1.8 ghz pentium M. So its sse 2 or 3? google pentium m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demonik Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 Okay same thing happened to me with jas install. Make sure that when you install you select the correct S-ATA drivers. That should fix it. Experiment with the install. Good luck. btw, for me it was the Intel Ichx/Pixx SAta Driver. I pretty much picked anything that had to do with. ICH and Sata because i know my mobo is ICH6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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