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How to solve Kalyway 10.5.1 blinking cursor problem


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This problem has annoyed me for a long time.

Fortunately, I finally found the solution.

 

It's already been mentioned in the following topic:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=77069

 

But you may miss it.

 

Therefore, I start a new topic so that people can easily read it.

 

My situation:

 

If I leave the DVD installer in the drive, it can boot correctly.

Otherwise, I got a blinking cursor.

 

Solution:

Erase your Kalyway partition.

Name it only with 1 word such as "Kalyway", "Leopard", etc.

Install Kalyway, it would boot correctly.

 

Hope it help

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Yes, I discovered about having spaces in the Volume name. However, I was still not able to boot after installing the DVD.

So, I developed a boot loader installation that works on Kalyway, iATKOS, ToH, or BrazilMac. If anybody wants to try it, send me and e-mail to macgenius6@gmail.com and I will send it to you.

 

ccg

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hi... my partition is called 'leopard'.... one word.. and i still get the blinking cursor...

 

 

I thought after previous successful iATKOS installation and many months of tweaking, I know how to install but I guess I am wrong. Don't know what I am missing. I too have a single word Leopard name in it and I get blinking cursor. Its Kalyway 10.5.2 and I am trying on Western digital (640 GB one) with 7 partitions; first diskXs1 is EFI non mountable one; disk Xs2 is a small 2 GB partition and I am trying to install on the third partition disk Xs3, named a Leopardcopy.

With a working iATKOS, I had partitioned this WD640 with GUID partitioning scheme. Installed PCEFI_v8, MANUALLY, from a USB drive (could be done from iATKOS HD installation also, but just in case).

 

Unmounted first all the partitions

 

./startupfiletool /dev/rdisk0s3 ./boot_v8

 

dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s3 bs=512 count=1

 

Unmounted all the partitions again

 

dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/disk0 bs=400 count=1

 

Interesting, I dont see any error during this efi install, no resource busy or anything. But I dont get that com.apple.boot.plist not found thing, just a blinking cursor. But I went ahead to install Kalyway DVD 10.5.2 anyway. I can boot through the DVD but blinking cursor without.

 

I have used Gparted Live CD to put a boot flag on the third partition, but what I find is that the disk remained unmounted or greyed out in disk utility. So I have to remove the boot flag.

 

Anyone can tell me what is going on?

 

PS: I used fdisk to activate the partition as well but does not help.

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if you dont have too much to worry on your hdd, just use kalyway 10.5.2 dvd and use disk utility to make new partitioning...

 

if you care, what i would suggest you is, create 4 partition scheme...

 

1-main-osx journaled-80gb

2-test or backup-osx journaled-80gb

3-windows-dos/fat32-100gb

4-name this anything you want-dos/fat32-rest of the hdd space (later from windows to add your other stuffs... 4th partition will be extended so you can create more partitions as you like later :( )

 

options: MBR scheme!!! dont use GUID, it will give u more trouble than good... MBR is more than enough already

if you dont understand or need more advice pm me...

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