Unable to start Installation DVD

[Corey]

I have an HP notebook with the following hardware:

 

CPU: AMD Turion 64 X2 1.6GHz

RAM: 2x512MB DDR2

Video: NVidia Geforce 6150 Go

HDD: 120 GB Sata

 

I'm not sure of the exact chipset, but lspci in linux shows a bunch of things with Nvidia MCP51 for the host controller, memory controller, etc.

 

 

I have 3 different install dvd's, one is for 10.5, another is Uphuck's 10.4.9 r2 and the third i'm not quite sure. Each of these gives me this whenever i try to boot off of them:

 

System config file "/Library/Preferences/Systemconfiguration/com.apple.boot.plist" not found

 

I've used these DVD's on other systems before and they work fine.

 

Am I missing something here, or is my system not compatible?

[SticMAC™]

Yip, It means the drive that you installed on was not made bootable, search the forum on how to make HDD bootable!

 

 

SticMAN

[Corey]

No, this is the initial boot off the dvd. I haven't even had a chance to run the install yet.

 

I've tried clearing the entire drive, no go. Tried making a fat32 partition and making it active, still no go.

 

Basically what i'm doing is when the dvd prompt pops up, i press F8, then try to pass various parameters like "-v" or "platform="X86PC", etc.

[Corey]

I think I may have resolved this, for anyone else that comes across this, here is what I did.

 

Went into the bios, and changed the boot order so that the HDD is set to boot before the DVD drive. Then, when the system posts, I enter the boot menu (ESC on this HP) and chose hard drive to boot from, and suddenly the disc works. I can't give the technical reason why this is, all I know is that it just works. Might be something with the fact that they're both SATA.

 

Either way, the setup has started.