MagnaTurban Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 So i got the disc from my friend, prepatched and everything. I got the installation screen and i installed it. Problem is, when my computer restarted, it went straight to the same screen. Nothing changed, it thinks i haven't installed it yet or something. What do i do from here? How do I get it to start up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reveeen Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 There are some pretty good guides here: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...allation_Guides Now, what everyone assumes, but no one tells you (because we *must* keep this shrouded in secrecy and black magic) is that unlike Windoze that creates it's own MBR (master boot record) this stuff doesn't (as to the why I don't have a clue), so when you are preparing your hardrive in the hardrive utility, after erasing and formatting to "Mac OS extended (Journaled)" you select the "partition" option at the top, a screen opens with your partition displayed, you choose "options", button at the center under the partition display, a window pops up, select "Master Boot Record", then "OK", and select "partition" before closing that screen to go on with your install. You do your install........... Get to the re-start re-start Snatch the DVD out of the drive before your system re-boots And you should be good to go. 1 week, it took me one week to think about what was going wrong here, and figure this out. Hope it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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