Klinsmann Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 Hi guys, Like all of you i was very excited to finally download iATKOS. I burnt it to DVD and popped it into my HP NC8000 laptop. Its set to boot from DVD. The hard drive has no partitions and has been formatted to NTFS. I get the following screen: Then when hit enter i get this: It just sits here and does not go further! PLZ HELP! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
eragon Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 where it says boot: type -v and hit enter. Tell us where it gets stuck on. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-546887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klinsmann Posted December 22, 2007 Author Share Posted December 22, 2007 Thanks Eragon, it got a bit further this time but gets stuck here --> Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-546892 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eragon Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 This is where an expert will step in and magically fix it. I don't really know whats wrong, but it looks like the file is trying to access 2 files at a time. I could be completely wrong though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-546896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klinsmann Posted December 22, 2007 Author Share Posted December 22, 2007 I think your right! Any experts out there please! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-546900 Share on other sites More sharing options...
solotitan Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 Use -x -v at the boot loader and see what happens. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-546905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 That's a reasonably normal message to get. Try booting with -v -f -x, failing that see if -v -f -s gets you into single user mode. It would help if you said what hardware and bios settings you were using. Additionally, your drive should be formatted as MBR partition, HFS+ journaled file system. Oh, {censored} - I just realised you haven't installed the system and are just struggling to boot the thing. That doesn't look good. And why is your optical drive HD31!? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-546908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klinsmann Posted December 22, 2007 Author Share Posted December 22, 2007 Thanks solotitan...Now i get a lot more messages but still gets stuck at the same point -->Consolation --> Thankyou for the response! I will try booting with those parameters. How do i format the drive to HFS+ please?Thanks!OK, i tried both -v -f -s and -v -f -x it stops at the same message as before!!!Im new to this, so if someone could let me know what i need to do id truly appreciate it!Anyone!?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-546911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper X Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 In your bios make sure your hard drives are set to ACPI. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-546971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkayz Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 try "cpus=1 -x -v" i had the same error booting Kalyway on my asus w7s Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-546987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klinsmann Posted December 22, 2007 Author Share Posted December 22, 2007 I tried that mkayz but it still gets stuck in the same place! Hyper X i dont have any options for ACPI in my bios! Its a HP NC8000 laptop! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-546993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klinsmann Posted December 22, 2007 Author Share Posted December 22, 2007 Can anyone help, or should i just give up!?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-547079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWise1203 Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 I think Hyper X meant to say: Make sure your HD controller is set to AHCI mode. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-547125 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klinsmann Posted December 22, 2007 Author Share Posted December 22, 2007 There is no option for that either! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-547132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azoro2000 Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 Thanks Eragon, it got a bit further this time but gets stuck here --> Same problem here, I have a Lenovo T60. And same results, both with iATKOS and KALYWAY, always when using EFI (both MBR and GUID). Any hint? Thanks a lot in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-547135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ran0 Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 I am getting the same problem while booting from the Leopard 10.5.1 AMD DVD (My laptop runs on AMD Turion64 X2). Isnt this problem occuring only in laptops? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-547148 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpmwr Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Same Issue w/ Lenovo (IBM) T42. Really would love to find a fix. Someone mentioned putting an old extension file on the DVD, any suggestions on how to do that? Tiger installed great on this laptop, new drive makes me kinda wanna use new OS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-554988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stardot Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 I had to turn off a number of things in the BIOS. I have a HP nw8440. Set SATA Native to Disabled. Set Dual CPUs to Disabled (one processor) Set Virtualization (if you have it) to Disabled. HTH Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-601728 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmoarena Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 NC8000 does not have sata controller NC8000 comes with Pentium M (centrino), it is one processor Just got NC8000 from a friend. It has the most weird bios configuration option I have ever seen. it has nothing to configure. Well, my installer DVD passed this line but got stuck on some other line for a couple of minutes, then automatically shuts down the system I was trying with kalyway 10.5.1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-606900 Share on other sites More sharing options...
benizi Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 In case it helps someone Google this: cpus=1 -v -f -x worked for me on an Acer Extensa 5620 (5600 series?) using Kalyway 10.5.2. (Thanks mkayz!) Also of note -- I installed to a USB drive, and the installation was about 500% faster after I used the disk partitioning utility to change the FAT32 drive to HFS+ (case sensitive, journaled). Best, Ben Update: forgot to mention, the only BIOS setting I had to change was setting SATA mode to AHCI. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77327-need-help-with-iatkos/#findComment-817250 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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