alochet Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Please help guys, im a total noob when it comes with partitioning and such.. Can some1 tell me step by step how label, flag, partition with live cd for preparation with osx? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qw3rty Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I used these instructions: http://uphuck.ggrn.de/forum/showthread.php?p=1399#post1399 I am triple booting Mac, XP, and Ubuntu. All from different partitions on the same disk with GRUB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuifrkns Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Hi, I would advice starting with an empty HD to install Leo on (or a drive w. data that you backed up at least). What worked for me was the iAtkos release. It booted and installed o.k. but I got a blinking cursor when trying to boot Leo. As suggested on the iAtkos install DVD, I used then a GParted Live CD to set a boot flag: -Download Gparted -Burn ISO image -Pop in CD -Boot from GParted CD -Takes 1-2 minutes to load into GUI -Select your HD -I think under the Info or Utilities menu, you can go into a submenu showing you the various flag for the selected HD/partition. Check the boot flag and 'write changes'. In my case the boot flag seemed already to have been set. I first undid the flag and then set it again so I was sure that GPated wrote the flag. -Shut down PC -Boot from Leo HD Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alochet Posted January 9, 2008 Author Share Posted January 9, 2008 Thank you both for the help, I will follow these steps and let you know how it goes. Ohh and also What label do I have to select? Is it MS-DOS or MAC label? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuifrkns Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I am not sure. I dedicated a HD to Leo and just had a single 200GB patition. I selected this drive/partition and set the boot flag as mentioned. No need to set a label I think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDub50 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 I installed leopard using iATkOS 1.0ir2 to a seperate HD than my Vista HD. That went ok, then I tried changing the bios to boot MAC HD first, but I got the blinking cursor problem. I downloaded and burned gparted live cd. I then changed the boot flag for MAC HD to checked was unchecked by default for me. However, I am still unable to boot from that drive I still get blinking cursor. Any Ideas????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuifrkns Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 There seem to be some other solutions aound the blinking cursor issue in this forum. Also, you might try to locate the problem by -Removing Vista HD -Try install Tiger and see if that works on your PC -If so, people advice to use Tiger to format/partition your spare drive on which to install Leo... -Format/partition your Leo HD using GParted and then re-install (and not use Diskutilities in the Leo process) -... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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