samamanjaro Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Hey, I installed Kalyway Leopard onto my Dell Inspiron 1720 and I'm getting a b0 error when I try to boot up Leopard. How can I fix this, or should I use another distro? Rig: 4 gigs ram 2.4ghz Intel Core Duo 256meg nvidia geforce 8800m? 250gig HDD fuji read the dell.com.au site for details. Sam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 This might help: b0 error on first boot thread. Or this: Fixing the b0 error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samamanjaro Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 Well, since complaint from my family, I had to reinstall XP, so any guides on dual booting, I tried but I can't seem to create a HFS+ partition without partitioning the entire disk, if I do it otherwise, it screws up. Thanks for the tips though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 1. Partition your disk a disk utility like Gparted Live Cd (free download) , or Acronis Disk Director. Create a Fat32, primary partition for Mac OS X (this is in addition to your windows partition). So you have a Primary partition for windows, and a primary partion for mac (still fat32) You might also want a 3rd, Fat32 partition for swapping files. This will not be primary (extended or something) 2. Boot of your Kalyway Leopard DVD, format the partition you created for mac to HFS+ journaled and install Mac OS X. You now have both os'es installed. 3. Set your mac partition 'active', if it isn't already. The Mac bootloader should come up, enabling you to choose your OS! If not, hit F8 at startup. For a more thorough guide, visit the Genius Bar for some great tutorials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samamanjaro Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 Thanks, I'll try again, last time I used Gparted for just this reason, it gave my XP install a Hal.dll missing error. But I'll try with Acronis, or I could just save up for a mac book.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samamanjaro Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 Ok, half success, its installed, darwin comes up, i select leopard. spining thing spins, then freezes. In -V it says Logon Window Application Start then it freezes, any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Please note: This sub-forum is not for OSx86 questions! If you have an OSx86 Leopard question, you should post your topic here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showforum=136 Please don't post OSx86 topics here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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