Leopard doesn't boot after install

[josealb]

Hello.

I wrote another thread about this but no one seems to know the answer so i thought i'd open a new thread and give some more information if that's okay.

 

I finally got Leopard to install into a partition of a secondary HDD but when i get to the boot up menu select the Leopard OS it loads for a moment shows a gray apple screen very fast and then reboots.

 

I installed the Kalyway 10.5.1 with following options enabled:

 

Vanilla Kernel, Vanilla Kernel ACPI fix, which theoretically contains the reboot fix

No SSE2 (My 640 CPU supports SSE2 SSE3 and EMT64)

NVINJECT Drivers although i guess they won't work perfctly on a 8600 i'll get on that issue when i get to fix the boot problem.

Sound card Drivers HDA_ALC882

 

My PC configuration is as follows:

 

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 recorded the information given (as it appeared too fast to read it) and I read this without using -v mode:

Loading Darwin/x86

EFI enhanced bootloader build ToH

Using SMBIOS table found at 0x000fc050

Using ACPI RDSP revision 2 found at 0x000fb2a0

 

On my other post someone told me to use the search function as was the solution to my problem very common but i didn't find any solution posted

 

Thanks for your attention

[josealb]

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[rlith]

If it's an ATA drive make sure it's on the primary controller, if sata it should be fine. That said, set your system to boot from DVD then put the kalyway dvd in. Does the system boot normally? If so then you have a bad boot sector (not physically damaged). The solution to that is using the diskutil during the install and writing 0's to the disk. You only need to let it run a couple of mins then click SKIP and let it partition and format normally. That should fix the issue.

[eJunky]

I have same problem

Putting the disk in didnt seem to fix it, i let the disk countdown expire, and it did the same thing

my config is 160gb hdd with xp on the first 120gb and 40gb or so for the leopard....(partition created from free space, using acronis disk director)

im on pentium M 1.4ghz nc6000 laptop

Need some help, cause this is getting annoying (have tried other leopard and tiger installs and nothings working..)