svens Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 hi together... the story of my last 2 days will short...reading about the installation of osx and testing solution for boot error.in the last year i have used osx 10.4 since version6 to 10 without any problems...now after an self made crash of my harddisc i have installed leopard and there should be no way to get my sata drives bootable! sometimes i wonder ...i thought that the partiton managers of the different os show different drives! now look at this i have 2 harddrives first is osx with hfs + second is win with ntfs installed win and then osx to install osx i made an partition with hfs+ in diskmanager on disc1s1 disc0s1 is my windows partition after the installation i use linux to activate the partition but i found it under /dev/sda !!! looks like an really great problem to find the right partition for any bootloader! can anyone check this!? with 10.4.6 JaS DVD i can install without any problems... sorry for my bad english i hope you can understand it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wigworm Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Your info show inconsistency: You said: i have 2 harddrives first is osx with hfs + second is win with ntfs You also said: to install osx i made an partition with hfs+ in diskmanager on disc1s1 disc0s1 is my windows partition Well, if OSX is your first hard drive, it should be disk0s1, not disk1s1. Maybe that's why it's not working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svens Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 read more please if i boot under linux i see my the osx disc as first ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wigworm Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 read more pleaseif i boot under linux i see my the osx disc as first ! Is your OSX harddrive physically connected to the first SATA port or the second SATA port? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svens Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 primary slave the ntfs is secondary master Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wigworm Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 primary slavethe ntfs is secondary master I assume that your primary master is your dvd drive right? Here's how you should do it: Unplug your ntfs drive. Connect your OSX drive to Secondary Master. Do not connect your NTFS drive (very important). Install with just your dvd drive and your OSX drive connected. Connect your window drive after you have successfully installed the OSX drive and successfully boot up OS X. Hope it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svens Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 its nice,thanks ...first i have installed 10.4.6 and updated with toh now it starts without problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svens Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Ok next steps. I have changed the connections for osx drive to primary master and for ntfs to primary slave i used toh and kalyway 10.5.1 dvd for testing and i got the same result. there is no way to install and get an self booting hdd only the blinking cursor. and the disk util shows osx as the second drive !!! linux fdisk shows hda for the same drive!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wigworm Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Try to change your boot sequence in your bios. You changed the location of boot disk but didn't tell bios about the change, that's why it can't boot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svens Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 in my bios i see sata 1 (port zero) disc is the osx port one is empty port 2 is ntfs harddisk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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