ScottBGKY Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Here's my setup:Intel E66002gig ramASUS PB5 Deluxe motherboard8800 GTS video card500gig MyBook external hard drive hooked up via USBexternal DVD drive hooked via USBEverything finally installed and is running great. Problem is I still can't boot without DVD in external DVD drive. I've tried all the fixes I've found on here to no avail. Would it be possible to install the Darwin bootloader on a USB thumb drive and let it boot that way so I don't have to use the external drive anymore? Or is there something I'm missing that will allow me to boot straight from the MyBook with no problems.Thanks in advance.Could a Mod move this to the OSX86 installation forum. Posted in wrong place. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arshmenarnar Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 what you really should be doing is getting the bootloader onto the correct drive couple of things that i had to do in the past day. try to install leo to a new clean hd. make sure your bios isnt on pnp os so that the drve setup there is all good. check your sata pata configurations in your bios. if youre putting drives in again later, recheck... sometimes repairing permissions will fix it too... try installing without other volumes present... check gparted live cd boot flagsyoud get more answers if you posted in the osx86 area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottBGKY Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 I verified with gparted that the boot flag was set. No other drives are installed. I don't think the bootloader got installed on the drive to be honest even tho I followed the steps to do it. Wonder if I went back now and did it would it harm the install? If I were to boot into the install disk and try to reinstall the bootloader without actually reinstalling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 This should have been posted in the category OSx86 Installation: OSx86 10.5 (Leopard). There you're more likely to receive effective help. Moved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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