Replicant2001 Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Hi, I installed a dedicated IDE drive in my (EVGA 680i based) PC for this, as iATKOS 1.0ir2 didn't see my SATA2 drives. I set the partition to be primary FAT32 in Acronis Partition Manager. The install process seemed to be very hit and miss for me. Sometimes the install disc would simply disply the "You need to reboot..." message almost immediately, and at other times it would stall halfway through the initial load (-v made no difference). Every so often though, it loads fully and I'm able to install Leopard. I've tried numerous installations (DARWIN x86 and EFI with vanilla kernal etc) and all end with the same result: My machine boots to the DARWIN x86 boot menu but from there nothing happens. The list of drives correctly contains the (highlighted) IDE drive with leopard on it (labelled OSX), and I'm left sitting at the boot prompt. Regardless of what I type (-v, pressing enter etc), nothing happens. Occasionally I see a flicker of text, but then I'm back at the prompt. Booting with the installation DVD makes no difference either - It just runs loads up the installer again. I'm assuming this is not the "blinking cursor" issue people are having, because the boot menu is visible. I've double checked, in GParted, and the boot flag is set for the partition. Does anyone have any idea what's wrong and how to fix it? Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks in advance... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86486-successful-install-but-it-just-sits-at-the-boot-menu/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Replicant2001 Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 Has no-one else experienced this particular issue? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86486-successful-install-but-it-just-sits-at-the-boot-menu/#findComment-614210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Replicant2001 Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 FYI: I had my IDE HD set as the slave, and the DVD drive as the master. As soon as I switched them around, the Mac partition boots! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86486-successful-install-but-it-just-sits-at-the-boot-menu/#findComment-614626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reepr Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 woot woot to the reepr, you might say. I have the same mobo as you and mine works I will make a guide gimme a couple of minutes sounds okay? While I'm doing that, I need: a way to use both cores (core 2 duo) onboard audio my email if you got q's: thereepr [at] gmail [dot] com Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86486-successful-install-but-it-just-sits-at-the-boot-menu/#findComment-614651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Replicant2001 Posted February 9, 2008 Author Share Posted February 9, 2008 Nice one Reepr A guide from you would be great! I'm still having problems... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86486-successful-install-but-it-just-sits-at-the-boot-menu/#findComment-614758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Replicant2001 Posted February 9, 2008 Author Share Posted February 9, 2008 I give up. I got past the initial problem (thanks to switching to Kalyway), but now the OS just keeps resetting after the "Darwin Loader" text appears I downloaded Kalyway's release, and I must say it's much better than the iATKOS 1.0ir2 release. It detected my SATA drives (something iATKOS refused to do), and the installer loads first time, every time. It seems to take longer to load up, and the install itself took about 2.5 hours for some reason! So... Kalyway works great, but my machine refused to boot OSX. It resets after about 10 seconds of loading. I've tried -v and -x (I don't even know what this is supposed to do), but still no joy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86486-successful-install-but-it-just-sits-at-the-boot-menu/#findComment-615770 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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