bigal44 Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 after the installation darwin will not boot up Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79358-darwin-wont-load-up/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 You know if you want to get any kinda help at all you need to provide more info rather than saying, darwin won't load up after the installation darwin will not boot up Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79358-darwin-wont-load-up/#findComment-562361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigal44 Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 i installed leopard on my dell vostro 1500 laptop and after my laptop says installation succesful it says restart so i restart and when i restart nothing happens Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79358-darwin-wont-load-up/#findComment-562373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 What distro did you use, Kaly or Iatkos? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79358-darwin-wont-load-up/#findComment-562392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
remed86 Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Hi, Try to make active the leopard partition. Boot up with the install DVD with -s option and type: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk1 (where osx installed on the 1st hard disk [the numbers starts with 0]) flag 1 (where osx installed in the 1st partition [numbers starts with 1]) update write (if asks something, answer y) quit reboot I hope this helps xmouse Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79358-darwin-wont-load-up/#findComment-562395 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigal44 Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 i used the one ToH Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79358-darwin-wont-load-up/#findComment-562408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 bigal44, I had issues with that distro and couldn't get it to boot into darwin and load the OS. Download one of the others, Kalyway or iAtkos and try them out. It beats banging your head against the wall. I've tried both and I like Kalyway the best. Cheers, Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79358-darwin-wont-load-up/#findComment-562460 Share on other sites More sharing options...
remed86 Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I agree with chevy2410, I more prefer KALYWAY than others too. xmouse Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79358-darwin-wont-load-up/#findComment-562472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigal44 Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 thaks guys i am giving kalway a shot but i was able to log into the toh leopard 1 time and my keyboard and touchpad and sound on my laptop did not work any ideas on how to get those to work......... also how do i dual boot this with vista everytime i tried to keep vista i could not get leopard to work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79358-darwin-wont-load-up/#findComment-562580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 i had the same problem with o dell vostro 1400. the problem is located into your boot sector. dell media center writes a special boot sector and magic number to hack around 2 active boot partitions (one for vista and one for special media center) this boot sector is very messed up and darvin will stuck. rewrite boot sector and mbr with an lod school w98 and reinstall. everything will work just fine once you remove the dell boot sector info. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79358-darwin-wont-load-up/#findComment-587545 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbo1234567890 Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 im having similar issues Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79358-darwin-wont-load-up/#findComment-587640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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