WillTurner Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Hey ive had several problems installing Leopard using this image Firstly i had real trouble formatting my drive using the disk utility, it would get to "creating partition map" and stay like that for a couple of hours until it said timeout. Ive solved this problem by using an old IDE drive, it was a Western Digital 300GB SATAII drive that wasnt working. Ive since managed to get Leopard installed, but the drive wont boot! When i load from the particular drive i just get the single beeping line in the top corner, that doesnt change. I have tried this (found it on another forum) : After reboot, if the system boots into Leopard fine, ignore this part and head to next section to setup multi boot. Otherwise, you might encounter blinking cursor or “HFS+ Error”, follow the steps below then If you install Leopard without Tiger first, the system might still boot into Windows instead or leave a system unbootable at all. Even the tboot loader trick(see below) wouldn’t work. In this case, you need to repair the installation and setup boot property for it. Reboot using the Leopard DVD, make sure the USB pen drive is connected. Open a terminal after everything finally loads. Find out what disk your leopard was installed on by issuing this command (my machine was rdisk0s2, will use rdiskXsY below, substitute accordingly) diskutil list Active the partition fdisk -e /dev/rdiskXfdisk: 0>update fdisk:*0> f Y “Partition 2 marked active” fdisk:*0> w Device could not be accessed exclusively. A reboot will be needed for changes to take effect. OK? [n]y Writing MBR at offset 0. fdisk: 0> qNow goto bootfix directory by typing: cd /Volumes/123/files/bootfixand do the following ./dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1umount /Volumes/Leopard ./startupfiletool -v /dev/rdiskXsY /usr/standalone/i386/boot ./bless -device /dev/diskXsY -setBoot -verbosereboot But when i load up terminal and enter the first line: "fdisk -e /dev/rdiskXfdisk: 0>update" it says disk is read only Any suggestions?? System: AMD 64 Athlon 5600+ Asus M2N32-SLI Delux Mobo Cosiar Ram, 2GB Asus 8800GTX 768mb Ram Asus DRW-1608 DVD Double Layer DVD Writer (i also have an asus SATAII lightscribe DVD Writer installed, although the IDE Drive seems to work better, have disconnected the SATAII drive) 1x 74GB WD Raptor (SATAII) 1x 300GB WD Cavliar (SATAII) 1x Seagate 160GB HDD (IDE) <== HDD I am installing Leopard on Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76025-cant-boot-leopard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillTurner Posted December 13, 2007 Author Share Posted December 13, 2007 come on, no one can help me? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76025-cant-boot-leopard/#findComment-537368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
redash Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 come on, no one can help me? unmount the disk with umount /dev/rdiskXsY where X is the disk number Y is partition number (think it starts a 1 > x for partiion where as disk goes 0 up) but you can just goto to diskutility and unmount with the icon on system drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76025-cant-boot-leopard/#findComment-537817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecialK_olin Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 lol wow, it looks like we have the same exact system... I'm assuming you were completely unable to get it to install on your SATA driv , since you used an IDE, cause, yeah, the SATA is being a total {censored} to me trying to format it. I wish I could help you, but I'm having a hell of a time with mine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76025-cant-boot-leopard/#findComment-605888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecialK_olin Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 After reboot, if the system boots into Leopard fine, ignore this part and head to next section to setup multi boot. Otherwise, you might encounter blinking cursor or "HFS+ Error", follow the steps below then If you install Leopard without Tiger first, the system might still boot into Windows instead or leave a system unbootable at all. Even the tboot loader trick(see below) wouldn't work. In this case, you need to repair the installation and setup boot property for it. Reboot using the Leopard DVD, make sure the USB pen drive is connected. Open a terminal after everything finally loads. Find out what disk your leopard was installed on by issuing this command (my machine was rdisk0s2, will use rdiskXsY below, substitute accordingly) diskutil list Active the partition fdisk -e /dev/rdiskXfdisk: 0>update fdisk:*0> f Y "Partition 2 marked active" fdisk:*0> w Device could not be accessed exclusively. A reboot will be needed for changes to take effect. OK? [n]y Writing MBR at offset 0. fdisk: 0> qNow goto bootfix directory by typing: cd /Volumes/123/files/bootfixand do the following ./dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1umount /Volumes/Leopard ./startupfiletool -v /dev/rdiskXsY /usr/standalone/i386/boot ./bless -device /dev/diskXsY -setBoot -verbosereboot But when i load up terminal and enter the first line: "fdisk -e /dev/rdiskXfdisk: 0>update" it says disk is read only Any suggestions?? System: AMD 64 Athlon 5600+ Asus M2N32-SLI Delux Mobo Cosiar Ram, 2GB Asus 8800GTX 768mb Ram Asus DRW-1608 DVD Double Layer DVD Writer (i also have an asus SATAII lightscribe DVD Writer installed, although the IDE Drive seems to work better, have disconnected the SATAII drive) 1x 74GB WD Raptor (SATAII) 1x 300GB WD Cavliar (SATAII) 1x Seagate 160GB HDD (IDE) <== HDD I am installing Leopard on ok...so I re-read this: it was typed out/printed incorrectly...it should read: Active the partition fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX fdisk: 0>update fdisk:*0> f Y "Partition 2 marked active" fdisk:*0> w Device could not be accessed exclusively. A reboot will be needed for changes to take effect. OK? [n]y Writing MBR at offset 0. I got all of this working fine and dandily, but now it hangs at the Kernel when I boot from the drive showing: "Kernel Version: Darwin Kernel Version 9.1.0: Fri Nov 16 14:50:43 SCT 2007; made by ToH:xnu-1228.0.2~1/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386" I'm feeling like the n00b I am...I haven't searched the forums yet, but I will soon Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76025-cant-boot-leopard/#findComment-606025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgsheen Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 I got all of this working fine and dandily, but now it hangs at the Kernel when I boot from the driveshowing: "Kernel Version: Darwin Kernel Version 9.1.0: Fri Nov 16 14:50:43 SCT 2007; made by ToH:xnu-1228.0.2~1/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386" I'm feeling like the n00b I am...I haven't searched the forums yet, but I will soon That's the "kernel panic" issue. You really should visit the Zephyroth 10.5.1 Wiki: http://osx86.wikidot.com/known-issues#toc1 Personally, I just boot up in "safe mode" ( -x ) - once you get into the OS, you can use Finder to navigate to "/ System / Library / Extensions ". Once you're there, DELETE ALL the files that start with "Geforce" and all the files that start with "NVD" or maybe just "NV". It'll ask for your password to Move all those items to the Trash. EMPTY the Trash Bin. Then restart the computer. See below BEFORE you start it up in safe mode. What's your network adapter (chipset)? The next hurdle you'll face is the "Account Creation" stall if your network card ISN'T 100% supported. Make sure it IS or completely disable it BEFORE you start the OS for the first time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76025-cant-boot-leopard/#findComment-606155 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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