JimmyB4403 Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 This is my first post on here but I am having a major problem. I am in the middle of building my own computer and wanted to install leopard on a separate hard drive from my main OS Windows XP. (I have a 1 TB SATA HD with XP on it, and a 300GB HD of free space to put leopard on). I unplugged my SATA drive so the computer would only recognize the 300GB drive so I could install Leopard on that with no issues from xp. When I put in the DVD with the .iso on it it comes up saying that it's a non system disk and then says to hit enter to start the installation or F8 to enter setup. After this, if I hit enter or F8 or even start it in safe mode, it starts reading the files on the DVD and then eventually reboots my machine after about 10-15 seconds. I have two different versions of the .iso for leopard that I downloaded from eMule and both give the same problem. The file names are: Mac OS X Leopard Kalyway_10.5.2_DVD_Intel_Amd.iso Mac Osx 10.5.2 Leopard (leo4all-10.5.2_universal_amd_intel[sse2_sse3]).iso My Computer is set up as: CPU - AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition MoBo - MSI - MS-7388 Memory - 4GB Corsair DDR2 800 Video Card - VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 4760 Sound Card - Sound Blaster X-Fi Does anyone know why this might be happening or how to fix it??? Thanks in advance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144015-immediate-rebooting-please-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybaster Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 I'm not sure what you mean by safemode, but when you press F8, you should be able to see something like boot: you should try booting with -v -f to see where it is giving you issues. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144015-immediate-rebooting-please-help/#findComment-1022461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyB4403 Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 I'm not sure what you mean by safemode, but when you press F8, you should be able to see something like boot: you should try booting with -v -f to see where it is giving you issues. I've done that, it gives the same result. I read somewhere that I might need a specific .iso file for the AMD Phenom processor such as Zephyroth 10.5.2. Does anyone know if this is true? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144015-immediate-rebooting-please-help/#findComment-1022964 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmuy Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 try to burn .iso in a image burner not the .iso directly on the disk Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144015-immediate-rebooting-please-help/#findComment-1022967 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I've done that, it gives the same result. I read somewhere that I might need a specific .iso file for the AMD Phenom processor such as Zephyroth 10.5.2. Does anyone know if this is true? A good distro for AMD Phenom is that by LawlessPPC.....see his thread...... Also be sure to burn .iso files to DVD as slowly as possible (at ≤ x4) and to check for correct isoMD5 checksums before burning to DVD..... In XP use Isorecorder to burn iso files to DVD...... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144015-immediate-rebooting-please-help/#findComment-1022970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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