dametalone Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 alright....for those who are familure with this, i downloaded and burnt the disk. I booted up with it. I read the instructions and even watched videos on how to do this. I get to the part where i have to partition and formate the disk. I make all the right options and it begins to format. After a little while, a blackish colored box pops up telling me i have to reboot (this is not in the dirrections or in the video that i watched). I do so and there is no change to my drive what so ever. And since i can not even format the drive, i cant even install it. Help please? specs: Asus p5nsli mb p4 3.0ghz 2gigs or ram 2 sata drives (installing on a newer Seagate drive) nvidia 7600gt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86279-kalyway-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
smorf Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 what kind of drives do you use? if you use SATA, try enabling AHCI in bios. the reboot thing might be a kernel panic, and if this happens during formating a disk, it points that it has trouble with communicating to the HDD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86279-kalyway-problem/#findComment-612598 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dametalone Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 what kind of drives do you use? if you use SATA, try enabling AHCI in bios. the reboot thing might be a kernel panic, and if this happens during formating a disk, it points that it has trouble with communicating to the HDD. i am useing a sata drive for the install. Im looking in the bios to try to enable the AHCI but i really cant find it. I guess it doesnt help that i dont know what AHCI really is so what should i look for? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86279-kalyway-problem/#findComment-613146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
smorf Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 AHCI is a (umm how do i say that in english...) communication mode for SATA, sata can be set to IDE mode (which is the default mode in many cases), and it can be set to AHCI. AHCI is the "newer" mode, it improves access speed to the drive but older operating systems have touble using it. for example XP will need some registry trick and the newest driver to recognize the SATA drive in AHCI mode. sounds difficult, but it´s quite easy. osx has some trouble recognizing sata drives in IDE mode, maybe somehow there´s a patch for this, but the better way is to use AHCI mode, due to the better performance. have a look in your bios manual if you don´t find it. if your bios is too old, you may think about updating it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86279-kalyway-problem/#findComment-613840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dametalone Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 AHCI is a (umm how do i say that in english...) communication mode for SATA, sata can be set to IDE mode (which is the default mode in many cases), and it can be set to AHCI. AHCI is the "newer" mode, it improves access speed to the drive but older operating systems have touble using it. for example XP will need some registry trick and the newest driver to recognize the SATA drive in AHCI mode. sounds difficult, but it´s quite easy. osx has some trouble recognizing sata drives in IDE mode, maybe somehow there´s a patch for this, but the better way is to use AHCI mode, due to the better performance. have a look in your bios manual if you don´t find it. if your bios is too old, you may think about updating it. thank you very much for the definition. I have updated the bios and i cant seem to figure it out in the settings and im pretty good about screwing with the bios and what not. here is a pdf of the manual for my mb. Its out of date and all but maybe u all can use it to help me out. http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket...2234_p5nsli.pdf thank you all Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86279-kalyway-problem/#findComment-614054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dametalone Posted February 9, 2008 Author Share Posted February 9, 2008 bump Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86279-kalyway-problem/#findComment-614840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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