(10.6.2 Hazard) Bootloader trouble after succesful install

[Allubz]

Hi Mac'ers,

 

I'm in dire need of some help and I don't know exactly where to start, but will try to make it as comprehensive as possible.

 

I succesfully installed Snow Leopard (Hazard) 10.6.2 using the DarkKnight Kernel (iirc), Chameleon 10.5 and 'something' at Laptop Support. The system also has XP x32 installed on the same hard drive (disk0)

 

Following the reboot after the full installation I had problems booting any OS at all. After a lot of trying I ended up checking "[How to] Setting Your Partition "Active" Using Fdisk in MacOSX, solve b0 error and some bootloader problems" since I had b0 errors. However, no matter what I set as active partition (whether it be Windows NTFS or MacOS HPFS+) Windows simply boots and laughs at me.

 

I tried installing BootThink in XP together with EasyBCD, but EasyBCD won't let me edit any of the startup settings even though I installed a Vista bootloader and BootThink is in the boot selection now on selection it shows the typical "A disk read error occurred, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to continue".

 

I was stupid enough to think that I might have to set BootThink as MBR so currently I'm back to zero where as I start the laptop it shows the above mentioned (disk read error) straight away.

 

I think Snow Leopard is installed fine. For some reason I can't get the bootloader to work, either it showed Boot0: Error or later when setting the MacOSX partition to AF instead of 05 it showed Boot0: Done - that was it. (after this I started trying with BootThink / EasyBCD).

 

 

A picture of how things looked last when I edited the active partition. After this I had the Boot0: Done 'error' so I set Windows as active and started BootThink/EasyBCD things.

http://i55.tinypic.com/5f3l85.jpg

 

If I let anything unclear or you need answers to other things, ask away, I'm willing to do (nearly) anything

 

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated since I'm rather clueless on where to start with bootloaders.

 

Full system specs:

Fujitsu-Siemens PA1538

AMD Turion X2 1.6GHz

2x1GB DDR2-667

GeForce Go 7400 128MB

WD 250GB SATA

[.picodev]

Although i cannot solve your problem,the only advice i can give you is to try a different bootloader. To be honest,that hazard "distro" is pretty crappy when it comes to booting on different PC's.i would advise you not to use a SL distro at all,rather install Leopard 10.5.8 (iDeneb for example) and then install Snow Leo from Leopard..That way you can insert whatever bootloader you want,edit the kexts,and more easily troubleshoot everything Hope you solve your problems soon.

[Allubz]

Thanks for your reply. I was currently at it to install 10.6.5 from iATKOS but then I found at DVD boot menu the option to start my MacOS X, so I did, at first I got to the Apple logo and a black screen with a black cursor which changed to the multi-colour cursor; the system then didn't do anything anymore, only the moust was movable. After a reset I got to the Apple logo again which then had a gabillion panics displayed.

 

So I'm at it to install iATKOS and if that doesn't work I'll give your method a shot.

 

edit: I was led to believe that iATKOS' version would work with AMD, which it doesn't. Getting Leopard now, first.

[.picodev]

As i can see,iAtkos packagers don't state AMD compatability of the distro although some report to have success with the install on AMD machines.The multicolored stuff is because your graphics card isn't recognised properlly.You could try booting the install dvd with "-x GraphicsEnabler=No" and see if that gives it any progress.

 

Yeah,really that would be your best bet.A clean and customizable install of Snow Leo from Leopard Go with iDeneb distro for your machine.When you are up and running,you can install from that previous Hazard distro from your dvd (you will need to go to the terminal -----> " defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE " to reveal the contents of that Hazard dvd) and then customize everytning.Report back later when you sort things out.

 

Oh yeah...Installation is in the /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg.

[Allubz]

Thanks man!

 

I'll look into it and reply here.

[.picodev]

No problems,glad to help.If you intend to dual boot with XP,be sure to have two extra partitions beside XP's.One for installing Leopard and one for later installation of Snow Leopard.You can easily repartition your drive with an Ubuntu Linux live cd,menu bar,Administration > GParted.When you bootup iDeneb installation (im guessing you will have two partitions created already,you will have to go up to the menubar,select Utilities > Disk Utility.Select one of the two empty partitions and go to "Erase".Give it a name..for example Leopard and set it to HFS Journaled.Exit the diskutility and then proceed with the install.Hope this helps,report back everything you did later.

[Allubz]

I think I'm cursed or something..

 

iDeneb 1.5.7 had a bad download (since every time it checked my DVDs (2) it would error out on the disk verification).

 

iDeneb 1.5.8 Lite doesn't get past the initial Darwin Bootloader, see screenshot: http://i53.tinypic.com/1zdb0p1.jpg

 

I'm off to download another, perhaps working, 1.5.7 package.