allema2 Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 Hey guys I have a big problem, I always get a blinking cursor after the installation of Leopard (right after the „Verifying DMI Pool Data“ message). Here’s my hardware: Gigabyte GA P35-DS4 Mainboard Intel Core 2 Duo CPU External USB-harddisk WD Samsung SATA DVD-RW No internal HD (plugged it out so that Leo can’t smash my windows-loader) Geforce 8600GT This hardware should be well-supported by Leo, even the 8600GT is supported with beta-kexts from 10.5.2! This is how I installed Leopard: First, I booted Gparted Live-CD to wipe the whole disk. Then I booted iATKOS-DVD and partitioned the disk with Disk Utility (Volume Scheme 1 partition, type MBR). Then I launched Darwin boot and created the boot-sector (non-EFI). Then I installed Leo, of course without stock kernel. After installation, my computer reboots and keeps hanging after verifying DMI pool data. I even booted Gparted Live-CD again after installing Leo, the boot flag is set, so it should boot?! I guess there’s somthing wrong with BIOS-settings, so if anyone knows what settings I need for USB-booting Leo, please let me know Thanks in advance for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allema2 Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 UPDATE I've just installed 10.4.6 on my USB-drive, and surprisingly it boots (after setting the bootflag with Gparted live-cd) This proves that the MoBo can boot from that harddisk, so the problem must be the Leo's bootloader from the iATKOS-DVD. Is it possible to use the 10.4.6-Loader with Leo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rounak Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 UPDATE I've just installed 10.4.6 on my USB-drive, and surprisingly it boots (after setting the bootflag with Gparted live-cd) This proves that the MoBo can boot from that harddisk, so the problem must be the Leo's bootloader from the iATKOS-DVD. Is it possible to use the 10.4.6-Loader with Leo? which files to put in usb so that it can boot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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