XTC Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Hi, I've been trying to find out of my computer will ever boot up on my Toshiba A100-LE1 without the help of VMWare. I've been trying off and on since last summer without success. I've been able to get it up and running on VMWare but i would really like to get it working natively. Since Leopard has been released and people are getting it working with success, I would really like to have it running. Here are my computer specs Processor: Intel Celeron M 1.70GHz Instructions: MMX, SSE, SSE2 Motherboard: ATI SB450 BIOS: Phoenix Technology LTD 1.80 RAM: 2GB DDR2 DRAM Frequency: 266.5 MHz I hope someone can help me get this to dual boot on my laptop with windows XP or at least inform me once and for all if i'm going to need VMWare. Let me tell you what is happening during the install. Basically it'll load up to the grey apple boot screen and after that it'll sit there hanging. after about a minute you get the caution/no smoking sign over the top of the apple and that's it. I've tried using -x at the Darwin boot screen with the same result. I've tried doing VMWare to native install with the same result. It'll install fine in VMware with tiger. (I haven't had time to download the iATKOS Leopard but i will soon since people have had sucess using it in VMWare), but once i use chain0 to pick it up at startup, it'll hang with the caution/no smoking sign. I'm hoping it's possible to get OS X Running since i believe it is truely the better OS out there. Thanks for any help anyone can give me. If you know anymore commands like -x or -v i could try please inform me. I'll try to take some pictures with my digital cam to show what is going on when i press -v within the boot loader. XTC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuifrkns Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 The only way to find out is to try, as you are doing. To run Leo 'as intended' I would invest in a new system if I were you. I have an old P4, sse2 and Leo runs, but some programs can be unstable or won't start at all (admitted, only the 'heavy ones'). Information via the -v boot option will give some insight in why the native system hangs at the greay apple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTC Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 Ok, i ran -v with the KALYWAY Leopard dvd. my camera was taking pictures too blurry from my screen so i started reading through once my screen stopped and this is what came up for the last two lines.... ApplePS2Controller : Timed out on keyboard input stream. Still waiting for root device. "Still waiting for root device" keeps going up every few minutes so i guess OS X doesn't like my laptop on my keyboard. is there any way possible to bypass this or am I stuck with only windows on my comp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTC Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuifrkns Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Not sure exactly what this means. Root device typically means the drive on which you boot (DVD in the case you ae booting into the installer). On this old HW, why not try a version of Tiger (10.4.8 JaS is a good try). Leo is much more picky when it comes to hardware... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTC Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 Tried tiger, with the same results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlavorofPwn Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 use a tiger ps2controller.kext Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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