10.5.1 (ToH I believe) Installed...

[makmillion]

I got it installed on a 40GB IDE drive (specs below), but when I restart, I get the blinking cursor.. how do I get it to boot into OS X?

 

Hardware specs;

 

(Original hardware stripped down dramatically for the install to properly work)

 

MSI K9NBPM2-FID Motherboard (v5.5 Bios .. default settings)

2GB DDR2/PC2-4200 Ram (512MB x4)

AMD x2 3800+ @ stock speed (brought down from 2.8Ghz)

LG H44L DVD-/+R/RW Drive

40GB Maxtor OEM IDE/ATA HDD

Removed evga 7600GT, the install disc wouldn't install with it installed, not sure why

Removed USB Mouse, installer would hang otherwise (standard generic USB mouse)

 

 

Any help is greatly appreciated

 

-mak

[geshadow]

Have you tried booting the OS from the install DVD?

[makmillion]

Yeah, but I get the '/com.apple.eboot.plist.' not found error, even if I use F8 -v -x

 

I also tried going into GParted and flagging it as 'boot', but there was already a Fat32 partition marked as 'boot'.. I unmarked that fat32 partition, and marked the hsf+ as 'boot'.. nothing.. so I reverted those settings (fat32 back to 'boot', unmarked hsf+ as 'boot') and I'm back at square 1

 

Should there be a 196MB Fat32 partition still on the drive? ..because there is, and it's hda1, where the hsf+ is hda2 ....

 

-mak

[makmillion]

I can't figure it out... I tried everything I can think of to get it to boot, but nothing works proper..

 

I'm going to try and install Leo on my SATA drive, but so far, I've been unsuccessful ... hopefully I'll get it.

 

Help is still appreciated, though

[geshadow]

Hi Mak,

 

Honestly I've never tried the gpartion way so an actual fat32 partition may be possible....but installing using the standard way it wouldn't...hmmm, I assume that

 

the 40 gig is just 1 partition....you could try the following:

 

1. Disconnect SATA drive if connected.

 

2. Make sure the IDE drive is primary master

 

3. Connect the DVD drive on the secondary bus (primary or secondary)

 

4. Boot OS Install DVD

 

5. Open Terminal.

 

6. Enter the following cmd to find the HDD (prob disk0)

 

diskutil list

 

7. From the list enter into fdisk:

 

fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX ( 'X' is the drive number )

 

8. Enter p (This will list all the partitions on the drive)

 

9. Enter f 1 (This will mark the first partition as Active)

 

Press 'y'

 

10. Enter write

 

11. Enter exit

 

12. Quit Terminal and Open Disk Utility

 

13. Click the HDD name (not a volume name)

 

14. Click Partitions tab

 

15. Set it up 1 volume or whatever you'd like (leave the main vol as hfs+ extended

 

16. Click Partition

 

17. Click the volume name (left panel under the HDD name)

18. Click the Erase tab

19. Change the Volume name to Leopard (if something different then don't use spaces)

20. Click Erase

21. Quit Disk Utility

 

Now reopen terminal again

 

1. Enter into fdisk again

fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX

 

2. Enter p (to list partitions, make sure its what you made it via Disk Utility)

 

If everything looks good, exit from fdisk

 

Now to make the drive bootable (if ToH at least)

 

1. Enter the following

cd /usr/misc

 

2. ./script.sh Leopard (or whatever name you created)

 

Don't worry about any error msg

 

3. Exit out of Terminal

4. Continue with the OS install

5. Leave the DVD in the drive and just wait for the User Info Setup to start.

 

Once thats done (hopefully you get this far) remove DVD and restart

 

 

Tell me how it goes

 

geshadow

[makmillion]

I did install it the 'standard' way.. GParted is simply a partition editing application which I was told to use to mark the partition as 'boot' or 'active'.

 

In any event, I just followed the tutorial you posted for me and I couldn't get passed 14% on the installer.. I let it sit for a good 30 minutes and it just stuck at 14%.

 

This time, compared to when I installed it before you replied, the 'available drive' list had my drive with a different icon representing it.. before, it looked like the little mac 'mounted drive' icon, this time it looked like a piece of solid white paper with a green arrow on it.. possibly meaning that this time the drive was formatted correctly, and last time it wasn't?

 

Any idea on how to fix the 'stuck installer' issue?

 

Thanks for the replies,

 

-mak

[ccg]

I did install it the 'standard' way.. GParted is simply a partition editing application which I was told to use to mark the partition as 'boot' or 'active'.

 

In any event, I just followed the tutorial you posted for me and I couldn't get passed 14% on the installer.. I let it sit for a good 30 minutes and it just stuck at 14%.

 

This time, compared to when I installed it before you replied, the 'available drive' list had my drive with a different icon representing it.. before, it looked like the little mac 'mounted drive' icon, this time it looked like a piece of solid white paper with a green arrow on it.. possibly meaning that this time the drive was formatted correctly, and last time it wasn't?

 

Any idea on how to fix the 'stuck installer' issue?

 

Thanks for the replies,

 

-mak

 

Hi makmillion,

Send me your e-mail address to macgenius6@gmail.com and I will send you a bootloader that will work correctly.

 

ccg