yamcha Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Hi successfully installed OSX Leopard, infact I got a chance to use it once after boot, but now when I restart it doesn't boot into OSX, it just stays in dos with the " _ " line flicking constantly but doesn't seem like its doing anything.. does it take a long time? Xp boots in much faster, but anyway help is appriciated, also during installation I formated using "Macintosh" setting, I tried "FAT", but it didn't detect it in setup if i chose that.. I would really appriciate some feedback, because I'm completely new with OSX, and it's quite confusing, took me long enough trying to figure out how to install it. oh and the installation i made was of MAC OSX Leopard 10.5.1 iATKOS v1.0i System Specs GIGABYTE P35-DS3R | THERMALRIGHT ULTIMA-90 LAPPED | INTEL CORE 2 DUO E2160 @ 3.2GHZ 1.44V | 2X1GB CRUCIAL RENDITION PC5300 5-5-5-14 | EVGA 7600GT 256MB DDR | WESTERN DIGITAL 500GB SATA3.0 7200RPM | SAMSUNG SH-S203B SATA | ANTEC 430 EARTHWATTS PSU | ANTEC NINE HUNDRED ATX CASE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solow Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Try booting with the install DVD in your drive. When it asks you to press F8 don't do anything - just wait until the countdown finishes. It should boot up from your hard drive if you have done the install properly. You will likely have to use the fdisk command from your install disk running the utility called "terminal" to set the hard drive bootable. Check around the forum to find out the best way for your installation (iATKOS). On mine (ToH RC2) I had to type fdisk -u /dev/disk0 (this assumes you installed it to the first hard drive (the master). Use disk utility under utilities to find out more about the drive you installed to while booted from the DVD installer.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yamcha Posted January 7, 2008 Author Share Posted January 7, 2008 hey thx for quick response, I gave it a shot and waited until countdown finished but it restarts the system by it self.. as for terminal, I went there I tried your way but it doesn't work with IATKOS.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solow Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Did you do a MBR install or a GUID? Did you use EFI? Mine was a simple MBR install of the ToH 10.5.0 RC2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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