hugh Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 I got the flat image on my hard drive successfully and can get the boot prompt up, but no matter which boot flags I try the system reboots at "Starting Darwin x86." If I use -x -v it scrolls through some ktexts first and then boots to it, and if I just use -v it reboots almost immediately, but if I don't use any boot flags the Apple screen comes up for a split second, and then the computer reboots. 10.4.8 works for the most part, but I can't get 10.5 going. I tried deleting Extensions.ktext but that didn't change anything. In the main thread I noticed some people had this same problem but no one knew the fix for it. If you've figured it out, please share! My system: C2D E6750 4GB RAM eVGA 680i MoBo eVGA 8800GTS video card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nalolatz Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 Hi, I’m experiencing a similar problem, I’m using grub instead of the Darwin boot loader Motherborard: Fatal1ty F-I90HD CPU: Core due 2 e4300 1.8GHz (with ssse3 support – not a typo, ssse3) RAM: 1GB RAM HD: SATA 160GB Installed on the 3rd partition (primary) with id af I’ve dd the image while skipping the first 32256 bytes (so I could use grub) It gets into grub, choose Leopard and boots, the screen goes blank and then reboots BTW: The same procedure works fine on my other MB: ASUS P5GC-MX CPU: Intel Pentium D 2.6Ghz RAM: 1GB RAM HardDisk: SATA 160GB any help would be greatly appreciated... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Objection Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Same problem with Brazilmac (which is the flat image) on my motherboard. Use ToH's install disks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nalolatz Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Thanks, I'll give it a try... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nalolatz Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Hi, I've tried the ToH's install DVD, I got stuck on: "waiting for boot volume with UUID xxxx USBF: .... Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device .... " the message keeps on and on... has anyone encountered this problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royco Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 I got the flat image on my hard drive successfully and can get the boot prompt up, but no matter which boot flags I try the system reboots at "Starting Darwin x86." If I use -x -v it scrolls through some ktexts first and then boots to it, and if I just use -v it reboots almost immediately, but if I don't use any boot flags the Apple screen comes up for a split second, and then the computer reboots. 10.4.8 works for the most part, but I can't get 10.5 going. I tried deleting Extensions.ktext but that didn't change anything. In the main thread I noticed some people had this same problem but no one knew the fix for it. If you've figured it out, please share! My system: C2D E6750 4GB RAM eVGA 680i MoBo eVGA 8800GTS video card You have a corrupted boot partition / loader. I experienced the same problem and used a 10.4.10 Tiger dvd installer to repartition the drive. Then I had to set the partition aas active. I had to do it once then succeeding test installs worked fine. Try to find the Kalyway boot HD Leopard CD. You can boot from it and can fix stuff like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nalolatz Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 thanks for the info, i was stuck on the installation, the -v -x worked for me, had to use the disk manager for creating a volume, since the installer didn't recognize any drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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