h0ffman Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Hi People I've just installed leopard onto my PC using one of the new AMD iso's. Problem I have is for some reason the Darwin boot loader is not appearing on reboot?! The PC itself has XP already on it on a SATA drive which I disconnected for the purpose of installing Leopard. I figured I would do the os selection via the BIOS hard disk boot priority once Leopard was installed and working. Any idea how to get the Darwin boot strap up and running? BTW - the leopard HDD is a standard IDE drive. Please help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonty! Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Hey, exact same situation, SATA as main, and Leopard as IDE. I just get a flashing cursor wit nothing. Im gonna try GRUB bootloader though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoiX Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 what image did you use, what are your specs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h0ffman Posted February 13, 2008 Author Share Posted February 13, 2008 AMD 3800+ Dual Core 2gig Ram GeForce 4 on AGP (NV28) ABit motherbaord I'm unsure of the actualy image, i believe its an AMD leopard, possibly rc2? Sadly the place I got it didnt really know what it was!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoiX Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 is it perhaps zephyroth's amd image? anyway check this http://osx86.wikidot.com/known-issues#toc3 you need to make you mac partition bootable darwin isn't missing ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h0ffman Posted February 13, 2008 Author Share Posted February 13, 2008 Ahhh, that got it However, now it gets stuck at CODE SIGNIN: cs_invalid_page: p=11[update_dyld_shar] clearing CS_VALID ????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonty! Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 OK, this worked for me. Boot into install DVD Go to Utilities > Terminal type diskutil list and find the disk containing your OSX partition (disk0,disk1 etc) now use: fdisk -u /dev/rdiskX (replacing X with the disk number, eg disk0 disk1) Press Y and press enter type reboot and remove install DVD and it should work Worked for me twice XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roike Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 yeah..Jonty!'s right but there's a faster way since booting all DVD to access Terrminal tooks me about 7/10 mins boot DVD in -s mode, that's single user mode and do : fdisk -u /dev/rdiskX where X is your Disk ID ( you can check it if you boot from the DVD and go to disk utility, select the hard drive where you installed LEO, press the INFO button on the toolbar and check your ID, probably it's rdisk0 ) after that, do reboot. already with the dvd in the drive, boot in -s mode, and do : fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX ( again the X thing ) f 1 w y ( if asked ) reboot and you can remove the dvd, and everything should be ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoiX Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 if you dont know what is your disk number boot the install dvd enter the terminal and type diskutil list check there what is leo's disk number and partition number Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ol!ver Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 I'm having the same problem but this isn't working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.SubZero Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX ( again the X thing )f 1 w y ( if asked ) reboot I've *never* had this work. Sure it will mark the partition active in the rare case where it isn't already, but the result is always the same blinking cursor. The problem is that even though the partition is active, the boot loader isn't properly bridging the boot process to the OS X code. I have a single hard drive with one partition, so I have no risk of loss to data outside the OS X partition. With this in mind, I found a very good fix for the blinking cursor: I boot off a Windows XP CD, then I press "R" to get a recovery console. I then run FIXMBR. It threatens data loss, OH NOES! Hit Y and when it's done eject the CD and type EXIT. This has worked for me the first time every time. I don't know if 'fdisk -u' does the same thing since I never tried it. Perhaps I shall next time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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