Corey Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 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? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82536-unable-to-start-installation-dvd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Yip, It means the drive that you installed on was not made bootable, search the forum on how to make HDD bootable! SticMAN Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82536-unable-to-start-installation-dvd/#findComment-585806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted January 20, 2008 Author Share Posted January 20, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82536-unable-to-start-installation-dvd/#findComment-585892 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted January 21, 2008 Author Share Posted January 21, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82536-unable-to-start-installation-dvd/#findComment-587275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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