RahamanPatrick Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Ok, so here's my problem. I've been trying to install the Kalyway 10.5.1 disk onto my computer. The first time I tried to install it it worked, sort of. It got to the booting screen after it was installed and told me I needed to restart my computer. The next time I tried to install I did not select anything in the custom options except all the sound card drivers and the MBR option. This is because I have an 8600 GTS and I read that I have to do that, then install NVInject later. I tried doing this three times, each time, the install finished, but my computer never gets past the BIOS and it never starts loading from the hard drive. I read that zeroing the partition can help so I did that too, still nothing. I know the HDD works fine becuase I'm runnning XP of it too (writing on that partition now). Any ideas? EDIT: I forgot to mention that before with the same computer I had OS X 10.4.8 running 100% perfectly. The only difference was the graphics card, which was an NVIDIA 6200 then. SPECS: Intel Pentium D 820 NVIDIA 8600 GTS C-Media 9880L Onboard Sound Card 1 GB RAM 250GB SATA Seagate Barracuda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RahamanPatrick Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 UPDATE: I just tried the iATKOS 10.5.1ir2 disk and it has the same problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac-fish Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 hi, ive got a little bit same system as you, atm im waiting for my sata drive because no install dvd boots on ide drive... i will tell you if it worked for me when ive got the drive ( tomorrow i think ) here are my specs: Intel pentium D 925 1GB Ram ECS 7050VT-M 120GB IDE hdd Palit geforce 8600gts 512mb RAM... good luck anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RahamanPatrick Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 Hmm, my situation is really wierd though as I had 10.4.8 working perfectly before... :S I even had the Kalyway install try and boot the first time, but after the second install it never tried to boot again. Oh and my HDD is SATA by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoiX Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 use -v flag and post your results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaiderX Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 i have the same problem, it installs fine, says installation sucessful at the end, on reboot, it goes through the post, and when it would usually boot, it does nothing, just sits there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RahamanPatrick Posted February 9, 2008 Author Share Posted February 9, 2008 use -v flag and post your results Sorry, how am I supposed to use the -v flag if it won't even start to boot? It doesn't go past the BIOS. It only tried to boot on my first install, after I wiped that it won't even start to boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RahamanPatrick Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 C'mon guys, can someone please help me out here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argonlazer Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Try TOH. I had trouble with installs with iAtkos and Kalyway and TOH seemed to work perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Z Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 This sounds strangely similar with the problems I was having with the Kalyway 10.5.1 install I was doing on my system. After the BIOS post it will sit there with a blinking cursor, never getting to the point of loading the Darwin Bootloader. From what I've been reading, there is a problem somewhere in the install process that causes it to do that if you are installing on a drive that has a space in the name. If your drive is named "Leopard HD", try renaming the drive "LeopardHD" or just "Leopard" and reinstalling... strangely this seems to fix the problem for me and a few other people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RahamanPatrick Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 Hmmm, I do have the name set as "Mac OS X". I'll give it a go without the spaces and report back. Thanks for the tip! Now I just have to pray to the Apple gods that it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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