healeydave Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 Hmmm, this is strange, I have a 2ghz Macbook with 10.4.10 on working perfectly. I have installed Leopard 9A446 onto a 120Gb Firewire Drive and whilst is all installs fine, when I boot up an it start to go through the configuration screens, only the mouse works, the keyboard just give me error bong type sounds whenever you press a key, so I am unable to get through the process. I have seen posts with people have similar keyboard problems when trying to install Windows on Mac's etc, so I'm wondering if having Leopard on the Firewire device rather than the intergral hard disk is causing some sort of connflict between the firewire & keyboard drivers!?!??! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57671-leopard-on-firewire-drive-macbook-no-keyboard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
healeydave Posted July 20, 2007 Author Share Posted July 20, 2007 Hmmm, ok, so I think I can rule out the firewire because my external drive supports both Firewire and USB. Booting from the drive from the USB also has the same problem. I get the Welcome animation, it goes through the startup options of which I can get through several screens using the trackpad mouse, but I stuck when it gets to the Apple ID screen because the keys on the keyboard just bleep at me and won't allow me to key in anything!?!?!??! I'd have thought using a Macbook, all this sort of buggy stuff wouldn't be an issue, its not like i've got a mixture of un-supported hardware. The only thing non-native is my firewire drive which I doubt is the issue. :-( >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Final update, I've even tried adding an external USB keyboard and both keyboards do the same just bleep at you (like a warning beep if your trying to do keystrokes outside of the box, more common on windoz). I think I'm going to have to give up here, I've scoured the net and I don't think anyone will have any suggestions I haven't already tried. Just have to wait for a more Macbook compatible Leopard I guess :-( Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57671-leopard-on-firewire-drive-macbook-no-keyboard/#findComment-411982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
healeydave Posted July 21, 2007 Author Share Posted July 21, 2007 Ok, I managed to get it working but I have no idea how. For some reason, my macbook rebooted and naturally booted from the firewire drive instead of the internal drive (e.g. without holding down option and selecting the boot drive). When it did this, the keyboard worked fine and I was able to complete the registration process. Strange..... The only dissapoint thing now is, the imported user interface doesn't have things like the download folder on the Dock. I've looked around to try and see how to implement this but not had any success. New users are of-course configured fine with the default dock etc. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57671-leopard-on-firewire-drive-macbook-no-keyboard/#findComment-412462 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DsurioN Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 I did an upgrade install as well and I got the downloads stack simply by dragging the "downloads" folder to the dock (in the stacks area beside the trash) Downloads wasn't in my Finder bar either so i dragged it there and it worked perfectly (with the downloads icon too) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57671-leopard-on-firewire-drive-macbook-no-keyboard/#findComment-412885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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