dmbtke Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 Here are the specs for my laptop heres the bread and butter for those who don't want to click the link 1.6 core 2 duo intel 965m 160 gig HD sata nvidia 8600 My computer is partitioned as follows: 70 gig primary(NTFS - Vista), 70 gig primary (fat32 - target for iAtkos) 10 gig swap to share files between the two Ive tried a few different installation methods on the above setup, almost all with various levels of fail. My main problem is trying to get an install on the second 70 gig partition on my drive. Ive created it with both gparted and disk director, but when i boot the iAtkos cd, i can't do anything with it when i try to convert it to mac os journaled. It simply wont let me convert it. I went ahead and dumped the first partition last night and voila, i could convert that one and do an installation on it. Smiles all around.... sorta. I did a barebones install first with the normal first kernal option and not much else. I got it to boot, but had issues on the loading screen so I dumped and restarted again, this time going with the second kernal option and this was it. I got to the registration screen, had a successful boot (with sound!!!) and was ready to roll. I decided to install again and give some of the video drivers a go around this time. This is where things got totally boinked. I tried the laptop driver set for my nvidia card and things literally went to a crawl and i wasnt ever able to get past the select my country screen and this was only after multiple reboots. My question is two fold: 1) Can i install on the second partition? I kind of need to keep vista 2) Based on my configuration, what would be the optimal way to do my iAtkos install? barebones, get it up and running and then see what packages i can add? I'm new at this, but i figure i should have an approachable working box since so much of my hardware matches other installs ive seen. Any help or tips would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmbtke Posted September 25, 2008 Author Share Posted September 25, 2008 bumpage. I know this hard drive issue can be easily looked up. I can boot up and try again and give a blow by blow account Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmbtke Posted September 26, 2008 Author Share Posted September 26, 2008 Hooray. got around the problem. I think it came down to me properly flagging it. Im going to now do some different install packages and see what i can get working. Ill catalog it here, so if anyone else has the same model, they can at least search for my thread and see what they can get working Im on a different laptop, giving updates. If you have anything to add, i can still read it Try #1: - Stuck on darwin screen. lets me select disk, wont let me do anything. i hit enter, screen flickers, and then i can input again. Strange. Havent had this yet Packages installed: iatkos v4i main system darwin bootloader Stock files: AppleACPIPlatform.kext Kernal 9.4.0 Additional Patches - Smbios drivers: AppleSMBIOS-27- IMAC - Remove Thermal Kexts Drivers: vga- nvinject -256 nVidia Laptop system: SATA Intel Speedstep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmbtke Posted September 26, 2008 Author Share Posted September 26, 2008 ive tried barebones now on iAtkos. same problem. I cant get past my darwin boot screen. No error, i make my choice, hit enter and then it just shows boot again.' Help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmbtke Posted September 26, 2008 Author Share Posted September 26, 2008 Im in with the TOH kernal installed and thats about it. What can i do now? Sound seems to be working. I figure the best deal is to get the video drivers installed and up and running. Actually, first things first, i want to be able to get back into my vista partition too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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