josealb Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Hello As some of you may already know I tried to install Leopard OS a week ago but I had a lot of problems. After getting my HDD to work again I wanna try to install leopard again but i'd like to solve some doubts so that it works this time. First of all I changed the MBR on my HDD is it enough to format the partition to solve that problem? Do I have to do anything special so that Leopard OS X can boot from a partition? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraf Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Hi there, Can you please add some information about your system and the problems you had with the install so you can get a more specific answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josealb Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 Sure I've got a Pentium 4 640 single core CPU running at 3.2 Ghz Asus P5GD1 Pro MoBo 200 GB SATA 2 HDD with WXP installed on it 500 GB SATA 2 HDD with a 50 GB partition for Leopard and the rest partitioned in NTFS for file storage XFX Nvidia 8600 GT Graphics Card I didn't post that info because i thought all the problems were because of the HDD. I got a b0 error but it didn't solve by just setting the partition to active so I tried installing Boot Manager and since then i had the error "Missing operating system" I also forgot to say that i'm trying to install the Kalyway 10.5.1 "Distro" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraf Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 First of all i want to understand you correctly the first HDD is an XP on and the other one is the 500GB? Second how did you partition your hard drive the that is supposed to hold OSX? Are you trying to boot from Kalyway disk and get the B0 error? If so when you get the Darwin boot of the disk hit F8 and type -v and post the image here so it will be easier to see what we are dealing with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josealb Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 Yes there's a 200 gb HDD with windows and the 500 gb one has a partition where i want to intall leopard os. I first created the partition with windows disc manager and then formatted it from the kalyway DVD to install leopard. I don't remember the format i selected tho :/ something with journaled (in Gparted it said the format was HFS+) I get the error when i try to boot on to the leopard os system after the installation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraf Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Which options did you use when you installed Kalyway meaning: did you check vanilla+ACPI? which did you install Boot_mbr or Boot_guid? another thing when you get the darwin boot menu hit F8 and type -v that will give you all sorts of messages and the error message on where you system gets stuck,post a pic of this screen here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josealb Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 I don't actually remember what options I checked but i think i did check the vanilla and the mbr one. I'll try hitting the F8 and taking a screenshot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josealb Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 Well I did try booting with -v but it only booted the DVD image showing what it was doing. The DVD already worked before my problem is when it's already installed and I try booting from the DVD hope I explained it well :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josealb Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 I just reinstalled mac in it boots up but keeps restarting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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