mtakach Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 So I'm installing the Kalyway release of 10.5.1, i did the vanilla boot to load the EFI, I did a GUID Partition, and I selected the right drivers for my hardware, and the install goes great. But when I reboot and start filling out the info I get ot the point where OSX asks me if I want to transfer information from another computer, when I select the option which says "Do not transfer information from another Mac," the system stalls for a minute and then starts the process all over again with the star treky welcome animation, so I get stuck in this loop! I've even tried on an old IDE drive which was lying around and its the same thing. If anyone has any advice on how to fix this please let me know, and please don't bring up the iATKOS release, that one doesn't work for me. My specs are GA-965GM-S2 Intel E2140 Allendale 1.6GHz WD 500gb SATA hdd 2gb Buffolo select DDR2 667 Writemaster SATA DVD/DL RW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bona Fide Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 The same thing happened to me. After searching extensively throughout the forum, the only real solution seems to be installing Tiger first, and then upgrading to Leopard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtakach Posted December 29, 2007 Author Share Posted December 29, 2007 The same thing happened to me. After searching extensively throughout the forum, the only real solution seems to be installing Tiger first, and then upgrading to Leopard. How exactly did you install leopard over tiger? did you install from a dmg or iso file within osx, or did you do the whole installation from a dvd, or did you transfer information from a tiger install to a leopard install during the set up point where I got stuck? Thanks for the help man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moto211 Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 install leopard to a different partition and transfer you user info from your old tiger partition to leo. when everything is running good, you can delete your tiger partition or format and use it for something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unicomagno Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 this is the solution: follow this guide. i paste it from another topic, but i cant found it right now. so just do it like below,and you can through it,then you can login with root account. have fun! QUOTEFOR ALL HAVE This issue (after the end of the choice, osx return on the video) (command are after ">" on each line, before you find a comment. Start your pc and press F8, here ask to start in single user mode : to do that, write >-s and press enter Your osx start in console mode. Here, start to check hard drive >/sbin/fsck -fy and press enter Osx scan you pc and does to answer you : File system was modified. After we does to mount all drives >/sbin/mount -uw / and press enter ; Dont forget the "/" it ask to mount all drives Them, now we does to active and creat password for the root account >passwd root The system ask for a new pass : enter it and confirm an other time when asking (press enter each time). Now we does to do something to notify to osx that we have end the Setup. >touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone and press enter (Don't forget the "." before Apple). And now you could restart >reboot and press enter Now don't touch anything, osx boot and ask you to log in Enter : log : root and the pass you have choose before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtakach Posted December 29, 2007 Author Share Posted December 29, 2007 thanks for all of the advice guys, what i ended up doing was installing tiger to an extra hard drive, then i copied the information from that fresh tiger install to my leopard hard drive when i got to the transferring information screen which had been holding me up previously, now i have leopard installed with EFI and thanks to Laik's virginizer script it doesn't look so ugly anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunker Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Thanks for the fix! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolec Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 when i write >passwd root it answers... passwd: command not found. any clue ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiJKa Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Honestly, this didn't work for me. Nor did various variations on the theme from google searches. I (like, apparently, several other people out there) ended up having to scrap and reinstall leopard. That aside, lolec: You are booting from the hard disk and not the DVD, right? (I'm not entirely sure, but I'm under the impression that the dvd may be missing some of the bash commands.) --Just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolec Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 im booting from dvd how did i acces that from the hd? also, ive reinstalled a couple of times and the same happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gieffe Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 Hi, I have the same bloody issue here and I found that the welcome video starts from DVD!!!! How possible? Without DVD the blinking cursor. With F8 it shows only the iATKOS DVD (I need iATKOS as it has the X3100 video drivers and with Kalyway I had no success at all) so it means there is no OS on the drive (I suppose). I am stuck in the loop, I have to invent something... what? boh... GiEffe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamluz Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Thank You for the Patch. Worked for me. Loop has stopped. > The passwd error is because you are probably booting from the CD Here is a link to fix the boot loader if you need to http://www.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t75843.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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