edmondwck Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iScott Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 What does making it one word have to do with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Maybe Leopard's bootloader is illiterate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dense Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 What does making it one word have to do with it? The boot loader part of the installation isn't using quotes and is therefore making a mistake. Next version of Kalyway will have this resolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Your_destinY Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 You are my hero!!! It works just perfect. At first my hdd was named "Mac OS X" => blinking cursor, no boot without dvd inserted Now its named "Leopard" => boots up nicely and dual boot also works :hysterical: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clv101 Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Thanks! I think this was my problem, I'd left the partition called: Untitled 1 Now boots fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toraz Chryx Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Is there a way of fixing this on an existing installation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ergosteur Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Wow thanks a lot. Would never have thought of this. I tried iATKOS r2 and kalyway, neither one installed the bootloader. Doing a reinstall of kalyway right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I use always _ as "spaces", OS_X works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveblazer Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 this should be sticked after days of waisted time i finally found this with google not the search on here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
$tealth Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 @edmon I have no words to thank you Man . Computer is working like piece of cake. Now I am enjoying the long awated triple boot on my PC . Greetz to you Master Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sircameron Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 hi... my partition is called 'leopard'.... one word.. and i still get the blinking cursor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LioNEXT Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticus C* Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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