SolidAsIraq Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 I own a gateway laptop, m685. I have installed OSX on this computer before, but went back to windows because there is no support for the 3945 wireless card. Since that first install, the DVD drive has died. Windows has been giving me the BSOD when I start it, error code 24 (bad fs). Tried using testdisk to fix this. Didn't help. Tried ms-sys to fix this. Didn't help. I have read in numerous places that this can be fixed by running chkdsk, but my computer has a SATA internal drive, meaning that the standard windows XP install disks do not have the right driver. I'm in a foreign country far away from home and do not have access to the manufacturer's disk. To my knowledge, windows won't load a third party scsi or raid driver off a USB drive to get SATA working properly with the standard disk either. So I've decided to install Mac OSX. It does seem odd that I've taken a computer with a bunch of problems and I want to do something to it that will probably cause a lot more problems, but that's not important. I have iATKOS 4.1i on a thumb drive. I put it there on a friend's mac, first formatting the USB drive to Mac OS Extended, then using restore to put the iATKOS install onto the thumb drive. When I try to boot from this thumb driver, I get "Error loading operating system" My question is: is there anything else that I need to do to make the thumb drive act as a bootable install disk? I am currently running Ubuntu 8.10 from a different thumb drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136422-my-predicament/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 install chameleon on the stick Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136422-my-predicament/#findComment-966128 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidAsIraq Posted November 14, 2008 Author Share Posted November 14, 2008 that solved that problem. It doesn't say "error loading operating system" just get black screen blinking cursor in its place Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136422-my-predicament/#findComment-966199 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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