NoSignal Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Hello and Happy New Year! First of all, here's my PC config: C2D E6750 CPU @ 2.6GHz, GA-P35-DS3 mobo (P35 + ICH9), 2 Gigs of RAM @ 800MHz, 320GB SATAII HDD (formatted NTFS, mbr) and a 80GB IDE HDD, not formatted yet. I'm trying to install the KALYWAY 10.5.1 Leopard on the 80G hard drive and dualboot with the WinXP on the 320G one, but I'm having a hard time. I formatted (through Disk Utility) the 80G hdd using the MBR partition table, taking care that I select the proper EFI version on the DVD. Leo installs with no error at all, but when I reboot the Darwin Bootloader doesn't come up. It just boots into Windows. I tried booting on the 80G partition (using F12), but there's no response at all, it just hangs. I think the MBR wasn't written properly by the Mac OS X installer. I wonder if I should install it using GUID partition table. =D Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, NoSignal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wigworm Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 You need to flag your 80 G hdd as bootable. It has nothing to do with MBR or GUID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoSignal Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 You need to flag your 80 G hdd as bootable. It has nothing to do with MBR or GUID. I understand. The partition is set as active and primary. I don't really understand what you mean by 'flag as bootable'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superstition Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Posts from two topics: Your system may not boot from the hard drive even after a successful installation - confirm that hard drive partition is set to 'active'. (Boot the system using a Knoppix Live CD, invoke the 'System - QTparted' command, right-click on the appropriate partition, select 'make active' from the pop-up menu, then apply changes. System should boot from hard drive after this procedure.) the partition was not flagged as boot; fixed that with GParted (on Ubuntu 7.10 liveCD), then it worked fine. I'm under the impression that the Kalyway DVD automatically flags a partition as bootable. I believe it says it does in the instructions. I didn't have to use any Linux tools to boot my installation. However, I only used a single GUID partition, not two or more. I also haven't yet messed with trying to dual boot. I'm still trying to get sleep, shutdown, reboot, and full graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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