beaugus Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 I've been almost ripping my hair out trying to figure out whats wrong with the simple-straight forward way of installing OSX on my notebook. I've got a Sony Vaio (model is VGNAR28GP), and frustratingly enough it uses raid to handle 2 100gb sata hard disks. When using either JaS 10.4.8 or Uphuck's 10.4.9 installation dvd's, neither find my hard disks when it comes to choosing where to install OSX. I've tried turning off/removing raid control through bios, formatting both drives in fat32 initially and nothing seems to work. It has no problem finding an external hard disk when I plug one in, however it wont boot from it even if I disable booting from internal hard disks and enable external drive booting. I've managed to install OSX using vmware, however it's slow as a turtle and useless. I'm aware there are many possabilities to why its not working out for me, and im fairly confident that it just wont be possible with my notebook however I thought i would put the question out there, and if anybody knows what im doing wrong OR is there something I need to do prior to installing OSX I'm open to all ideas. My system specs are: Intel Core2 Duo 2.16ghz, 2GB ram, 256mb nvidia 7600. It uses an Intel i945pm chipset. Thanks in advanced. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60876-need-advicehelp-with-x86-osx-installation/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
superman1101 Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 you should be able to boot from the external.... instead of configuring the bios to change boot priority you should try to force the USB boot. you can usually do this by pressing the f10 key when you turn on your notebook. then just select "USB Hard Disk"... if the f10 key doesnt work for you then just follow what it says on the boot screen, usually it says "press <key> for boot menu" or something like that. However if you cannot see the usb hard drive from the bios(and by that, i mean that bios has to tell you details about the drive, not just "removable drives"), or from the boot menu, then your bios is not detecting the hard drive, and thus, you will not be able to boot from that hard drive... if this is the case, then sorry, however if you have an option to boot from removable drives then you should try a different removable. hope this helps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60876-need-advicehelp-with-x86-osx-installation/#findComment-432061 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twisted blatino Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 its because osx cant install on your other partitions untill you format to hfs, first choose utilities from the menu bar then choose disk utility and on the left side choose your partition you wanna install on, then on the right side choose erase, from the drop down menu choose mac os extended journaled, then hit erase then go back to the installer, you should see your install destination Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60876-need-advicehelp-with-x86-osx-installation/#findComment-432155 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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