simscube Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Hello, I've been wanting to try out OSx86, its a project I've been following for a few years now. I only very recently obtained a computer that could even potentially run the Mac operating system. My problem is that when I try to boot the installation DVD, my computer will boot into windows. I have my computer setup to boot from disk as a primary boot device, and when I enter the BIOS and disable booting from my hard drive, I get a message that basically tells me that it sees nothing to boot: "insert bootalbe item into boot device and press any key" or something along those lines. My current system (parts that may be the problem): Motherboard: ASUS M3A78-EM (AMD 780G chipset) CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Black Edition Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 3200 HDD(s): 250GB for Mac/500GB for Windows I've seen people install successfully on similar machines, so I think its possible with mine... Help would be much appreciated Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140082-ideneb-v13-1055-installation-problems/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
simscube Posted December 9, 2008 Author Share Posted December 9, 2008 how exactly do you do that? Normally I'm really good with computers, but this is my first burner I've ever had, so its all new to me. I'm using Nero 8 essentials for burning EDIT: Thanks for the help, with a bit of digging, I managed to find the right burn mode. I got the disk burnt, booted it, and installed Leopard. All without any major difficulty. Now, though, when I attempt to boot into Leopard, I get past the command line part, then the screen flashes, and the computer restarts. Booting withi safemode, no graphics, and with the boot visible do nothing to improve the situation. Help here would be appreciated now... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140082-ideneb-v13-1055-installation-problems/#findComment-992350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simscube Posted December 28, 2008 Author Share Posted December 28, 2008 I did try booting with -v, it instantly crashed. I think I may not be OSx86 compatible again Course that don't mean I'm going to give up Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140082-ideneb-v13-1055-installation-problems/#findComment-1016680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentmasta Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 do you know what your your hdd is? (diskXsY) Primary ide (master/slave), Secondary ide (master/slave)? I had a similar problem after installing ideneb... after install i used the kernel from the ideneb disk to load the OS from the hdd. i put the dvd in the drive loaded it, pressed F8 and on the command line i used hd(2,1)/mach_kernel -v rd=disk1s2 and it loaded the kernel from the dvd not from the hdd. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140082-ideneb-v13-1055-installation-problems/#findComment-1016688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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