mikeytjee Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 hello guys I need your help with something recently i downloaded the 10.5.1 leopard for amd iso from Zephyroth i installed it by burning it on a dvd when its fished it asks to restart well it doesnt the only thing i see is a black screen with a blinking underscore.. can someone help me please Mike Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I haven't even tried to install leo on my AMD PC because of all the problems, sorry. I did, however come across this tutorial: http://www.forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic....f=16&t=2135 hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-588795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeytjee Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 yes i came cross that one to you need mac 10.4.x but you also need a unpatched loapard iso, but i only have the AMD patched iso :S Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-588881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeytjee Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 up Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-589607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeytjee Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 up Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-590484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 You can find what you need in the usual torrent places. I know this is not what you want to hear, but I'd give it a try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-590504 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeytjee Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 no thats what i wanted to hear but thnx anyway is such an image called a flat image ? tnx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-590751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_cute Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 no thats what i wanted to hear but thnx anywayis such an image called a flat image ? tnx That happens when you have a kernel panic,and maybe this is cause due to your video card.Boot with -v to see the messages. Posting your specs will help a lot... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-591168 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeytjee Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 okey here it goes my specs: AMD X2 6000+ 500 Gb Maxtor SATA hdd 2Gb RAM ATi 1950XTX Asus MV** HD motherboard Help me pls im very desparate... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-592077 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgsheen Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 It went through the entire 10.5.1 installation (to the "Installation Successful!" screen)? But it wouldn't actually restart? Is that what you refer to as a black screen with a blinking cursor? What happens now when you reset / shut down / manually restart the computer? Does it go through the POST (bootup) screens? It won't boot from the HD you installed OSX on? Does it start to boot "Darwin" then stop at some point? Where? Will it boot from the DVD? ( You may see from my questions that you'll probably need to supply a LOT MORE INFORMATION for someone to actually help you... ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-592275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeytjee Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 okey here goes 1 it went through the setup of leopard, it said installation succesful, it rebooted, went passed the bios and thats where it stops and i see the cursor blinking it doesnt load darwin it doesnt do anything actually So it doesnt boot at all. And i dont know how to boot from dvd... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-592288 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahwahman89 Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Read the tutorial in my sig. It has relevance, not total relevance but some at least. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-592298 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeytjee Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 Yeah i wil try it later because my hdd crashed so im gonna buy a new 1 brb! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-592329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgsheen Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Now we're getting somewhere!! Why didn't you say so in the first place!That's an extremely common thing. The installer has failed to make your new installation HD bootable! You really need to read all the stuff at the Zephyroth Wiki: http://osx86.wikidot.com/ It'll help lots. I'll get you started: This will work if you ONLY have ONE hard drive and know WHICH PARTITION you installed 10.5.1 to. If you don't - STOP HERE, give ALL your specs including which HD you selected / partitioned for OSX and HOW you did it. Otherwise: Boot off the DVD & press F8 to get to startup options type "-s" to start in "single user mode". (you know to type it without the quotes, right?) It'll soon stop at a "command prompt" (blinking cursor) TYPE: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (hit Enter - Use "0" if only one HD - otherwise use actual number of the drive you installed to - there are ways to find the drive number - ask) update (hit Enter) f 1 (hit Enter - use "1" if that's the partition number you installed to, else use the actual partition number for your install) w (hit Enter) q (hit Enter - saves your changes and quits fdisk) reboot (hit Enter - restarts the computer) Remove the DVD and let it boot from the HD. You should see "Darwin"... At the countdown, press Enter start using "-x" to boot into safe mode (if you don't it's going to "kernel panic" and stop after trying to load the GPU drivers!) You're still not there, but you're a little closer. This is all pretty basic stuff. You haven't hit the hard parts yet - not even close. So, if this is difficult for you, you'll either have to learn a hell-of-a-lot more (like I did) or wait for an easier way to install this stuff. Good luck - check back... And i dont know how to boot from dvd...How did you install Zephyroth 10.5.1 then? Not from a DVD?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-592331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeytjee Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 Thnx igonna try as soon as i get home, im now standing in line to get a new hdd, postin from my iphone!!Thnx igonna try as soon as i get home, im now standing in line to get a new hdd, postin from my iphone!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-592339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmar Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Hi , I'm having the same problem trying to start from a new Leopard installation - tried everything but the boot loader doesn't seem to find my disk at all. Even starting from the DVD again and having waited for the countdown to finish, no other installations are found from the Darwin boot loader a part of the DVD itself. I've got two disks: the 1st one (MBR) with Vista and a data partition, the second one I partitioned during the installation as GUID with the 1st partition for OSX and a 2nd one, empty for the moment, both defined as HFS+. Listing all partition data wit diskutil I found out that the 1st partition in the disk is a 200MB EFI partition, and what I thought was my 1st partition - where I installed OSX - is shown as /dev/dis1s2. However, when I try to make active the OSX partition booting in single mode and running fdisk -e /dev/rdisk1, it doesn't seem to recognise even the partition data: at least if I understand it correctly, using 'print' once I've started fdisk should show me the way the disk is partitioned, right? instead, it shows me one single partition with an ID "EE". I tried to use "flag 2" anyway, but booting from disk still doesn't work. What else could I try - any ideas? thanks in advance for any help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-595108 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeytjee Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 qsheen need your help again... look i typed the line an this is what happens i dont know what i did wrong please help! going nuts here Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-598444 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeytjee Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-598525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgsheen Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 This is your NEW hard drive you just bought? You've gone through the DVD install again, partitioning and installing OSX to the new drive? The pictures above are what happen after the Installer reboots? I'm puzzled, but I think you may not have used (created) an MBR partition... Is the new drive the ONLY HD in the computer now? Are you sure it's "drive 0 (zero)"? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-598621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeytjee Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 yes, I installed it again partitioned it and installed it on the new hdd, and it rebooted but then. I saw the blinking cursor again so I did what you told me( press f8 then -s ) and what you see happens next in the pictures.. And I know for sure its disk 0 Mt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-599163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeytjee Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 help anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-599585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomnimac Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Got an old JaS Tiger DVD? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-599605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeytjee Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 yes why? 10.4.8 DVD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-599625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgsheen Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 yes, I installed it again partitioned it and installed it on the new hdd, and it rebooted but then. I saw the blinking cursor again so I did what you told me( press f8 then -s ) and what you see happens next in the pictures.. And I know for sure its disk 0Mt Then answer with a "Y" (yes) to initialize the partition table and see what happens... (that's never happened to me ) ( edit: I've always used old disks or disks that have already had Windows on them or have been formatted by a Windows computer. Windows uses MBR. The Mac OS can use another boot / partition scheme I think, but I don't know much about it. In the Disk Utility, if you look in the advanced (or other) options while you're in the "partition" window, you'll see what I mean. You can choose MBR (for compatibility with windows or other operating systems) or one of the "native Mac" schemes. On a blank drive, I don't know if it defaults to MBR or one of the others. Someone please correct me if I'm way off base here. ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-599644 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgsheen Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Hey! I just had that happen to me! It came up with that exact same message when I selected the optical drive with the install DVD in it... I expected my install HD to be d2s1 (disk 2, partition 1) when I booted off the DVD in single user mode. NOPE - it moved the install HD to "3" - the DVD-ROM was "2". When in fdisk you can always check by using the "p" or "print" command. It'll list the partitions and how they're formatted. So, you can: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 p (this will show the partition structure for disk 0) // wrong drive?: // abort (will exit fdisk without making any changes) you can start over again: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk1 p (correct disk this time:) update f 1 w q reboot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82909-need-help-with-leopard-installation/#findComment-599947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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