sandworm Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Hi all, Earlier this year I installed Leo4All v2 successfully on my HP TX2000. It ran fairly well, but I didn't end up keeping it on. I'd like to give it another go, but now I get stuck in a boot loop. When I choose to boot from CD, it gets about 4 lines in and resets to "Press any key to boot from CD." Pressing F8 leads me to the startup volume, the only entry of which is: hd(31,0) Leo4All-10.5.2 I've tried all sorts of combinations of startup keys (cpus=1, -v -f -x, etc etc), but no joy. The weirdest thing is that I'm using the EXACT SAME DISK that worked 6 months ago. It's not scratched or anything. I have also tried resetting my bios, that didn't help. Anyone encounter this problem? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197864-unbootable-dvd-weird-stuff/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiteyHHR Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 ya, I'm getting the same issue on my compaq CQ60. Got some good suggestions on here but could never get it going. I would suggest trying a different distro. (Kalyway, IPC, iatkos) and see if any of them will help you. I myself tried a bunch and non of them ever got me into Darwin (or whatever the installer is called). With Kalyway using -x, I was able to get further (about 50 or so lines I would guess vs just the first 4) but then it would reboot again. If you can figure this out, please pm me to let me know what you did. I have a nagging feeling that this may be due to a setting in the BIOS that we can't access since HP oh so loves to use custom bios' with almost no configurable options. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197864-unbootable-dvd-weird-stuff/#findComment-1332928 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandworm Posted November 17, 2009 Author Share Posted November 17, 2009 No kidding... The thing is, I haven't changed any bios settings, and I even tried reverting to default, still no joy. And I had it working on this computer, with this disk 6 months ago. So weird... From reading the TX2000 thread, it seems like different distros don't work as well (when installed, haha) on this machine, but still, it must be worth a try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197864-unbootable-dvd-weird-stuff/#findComment-1333326 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandworm Posted November 17, 2009 Author Share Posted November 17, 2009 Still no love from the Leo4All v2 disk. It seems like it's trying to read the partition hd31,0 off my hard drive. Anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197864-unbootable-dvd-weird-stuff/#findComment-1333497 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandworm Posted November 19, 2009 Author Share Posted November 19, 2009 OMFG, it worked! Seems ridiculous, but I spammed the [enter] key while booting, and it worked. For those of you with the boot.plist not found error, or stuck in a boot loop, try this! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197864-unbootable-dvd-weird-stuff/#findComment-1335499 Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiteyHHR Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 Which distro did you use to get it working? OMFG, it worked! Seems ridiculous, but I spammed the [enter] key while booting, and it worked. For those of you with the boot.plist not found error, or stuck in a boot loop, try this! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197864-unbootable-dvd-weird-stuff/#findComment-1335944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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