installation -- kalyway

[charlestrd]

Running Dell Vostro 400 -- as stated on the compatibility list, it should be working. I got it to go through the installation process. Rebooted and booted on the DVD again without pressing any key or te F8 key. Goes through the Apple animation (the space one) then this:

 

1- Before you beging (telling me keyboard isn't being detected) - Clicked on OK

2- Pressed Z then / (running the standard dell usb keyboard and mouse) -- tells me closest is the ANSI Us and other 101 or 102 keyboard..

3- Clicked Continue

4- No asking me for country region (tied US and Canada) - pressed continue

5- Select your keyboard -- I get to chose between US and canadian english

6- Selected Canadian English -- pressed continue

7- Do you already own a mac? -- i selected "Do not transfer my information now

8- Pressed Continue -- after maybe 30-40 seconds, it loops back to the Apple animation then back to Step 1..

 

Anyone know what's going on?

I plugged my G15 Logitech keyboard to see if it was the keyboard causing it to loop and no go...Please help

i forgot to add the system spec

 

Intel®Core™2 Duo Proc E6550

2GBDual Channel DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz - 2DIMMs

DualDrives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x (DVD+/-RW) Burner

500GBSerial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™

256MBNVIDIA® GeForce® 8600GT

[charlestrd]

i started reading more and more and it looks like i have the problem where the welcome video loops -- i found this:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/i...php/t77449.html

 

ananse

Dec 25 2007, 09:01 PM

I switched to Kalyway's install. That works. If you have the problem where the welcome video loops, look at post #278 on this page: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...7069&st=260. For audio, I used the STAC9271D_0x83847627_testing.zip file from Taruga's thread (first page) http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=32859. I then used the instructions in this thread to place the files in the right directory and set the permissions. I also went to Disk Utility and repaired permissions. After reboot, sound worked.

 

i went to #278 but it didn't tell me anything -- i'm running usb keyboard/mouse -- this fix is talking about ps2 support?

[charlestrd]

anyone ? :hysterical:

[luh3417]

I was in the same fix and what worked for me was:

 

I checked my BIOS settings ( I have a similar motherboard to this one http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=83141 ) and realized that I'd left the onboard NIC disabled.

 

So check your network interface. Having no good NICs is one cause of this loop.

[phunkysai]

anyone ? :censored2:

 

I was able to bypass this loop by doing the following:

 

On the black screen at startup (i believe when you press f8 right?) i typed:

 

"Graphics Mode"="640x480x32"

 

Type it just like that with quotes and everything, and when it boots you will get some kind of error that says setup can't run in this mode or something, which is ok - click ok, and then you should at least get into Leopard. The res will bad (640x480), but you should be able to restart and when Leopard comes back up it should change to a better resolution (assuming your graphics hardware is working).

 

Then you can start troubelshooting all your hardware :-)

 

Hope that helps...

[oxyigen]

I was able to bypass this loop by doing the following:

 

On the black screen at startup (i believe when you press f8 right?) i typed:

 

"Graphics Mode"="640x480x32"

 

Type it just like that with quotes and everything, and when it boots you will get some kind of error that says setup can't run in this mode or something, which is ok - click ok, and then you should at least get into Leopard. The res will bad (640x480), but you should be able to restart and when Leopard comes back up it should change to a better resolution (assuming your graphics hardware is working).

 

Then you can start troubelshooting all your hardware :-)

 

Hope that helps...

 

 

Yap this does work for me, bypass the setup loop bs... thanks a lot !!!

[Simply Laz]

Tried the low-res trick, but no-go. Boot screen was 640x480 but it still booted default.

 

I did notice, however, that when booting from single user I get "GFX0: family specific matching fails" ~4 times. GMA950 does support GMA945 right? If not, GMA900 works, right?

 

Sorry to surface this old thread, but this Kalyway has the kexts I need for my hardware. If need-be I'll just grab the kexts and put iATKOS on here.

 

Thanks!

Laz.