6apxat Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Well, first of all let me say that I've tried 5 different releases and only 2 of them boot (Jas 10.4.8 and Zephyroth). There's an error "FireWire GUID 000000000000000 is invalid" which appears every 5 seconds, and only the mentioned above distros are able to boot with it. The problem is that in Zephyroth I can't erase or even repartition the disk, it always returns and error, I thought I would be able to do it from Jas disk util, but it doesn't recognize my HD, so now I'm stuck. I can't turn off my FW card in BIOS (it's very stingy on these laptops) and I can't format my disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulsion Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 how bout starting with some system specs, according to the ones in your signature you couldn't run Zephyroth cause it's AMD based! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6apxat Posted February 27, 2008 Author Share Posted February 27, 2008 sorry, added the specs to my sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulsion Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 i had the same firewire errors during boot from cd, of course i'm using kalyway since i have intel based system. if i had a suggestion, download gparted, boot from it, format your partition you wana install it on in fat32, restart and boot from Zephyroth, go into disk utility ad see if it see's it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6apxat Posted February 27, 2008 Author Share Posted February 27, 2008 Zephyroth does see it, Jas doesn't. I can't get it formated to Mac OS Extended any way (erase or partition). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulsion Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 as i said in previous post, download gparted, delete partition, create partition, format fat32, try again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6apxat Posted February 27, 2008 Author Share Posted February 27, 2008 Ok, I've tried it. Single FAT32 partition, not recognized by Jas, Zephyroth returns "Partition error". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulsion Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 interesting, guess i'll have to break out my amd machine and give it a shot and see what happens, i don't understand why you would have issues with partitions seeing as you have to reformat the fat32 partition as mac os journaled anyway. i'll mess around with it either later on or this weekend and see what happens maybe someone else has ideas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6apxat Posted February 27, 2008 Author Share Posted February 27, 2008 Thanks, I'll be awaiting for further answers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teeze Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 I believe this may be my problem as well.. so let me see if I have this correct: I should - 1. Install Vista 2. Create a Partition at least big enough for OSx 3. Reboot into GParted 4. Delete Partition 5. Create FAT32 Partition 6. Reboot with iATKOS disk 7. Win I think this is where I'm messed up.. and I believe the OP may be stuck here as well.. GParted isn't making sense. Anybody care to explain this step(s) in further detail? Ted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAvenue Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 6apxat; Do you intend on using the whole hard drive for Leopard ? Or is Windows also going to be installed? The ideal thing to do is use GParted (i use Parted Magic 2.0 live cd which contains GParted) to set up the partitions you want and format them. Then the Leopard installation will be much easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulsion Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 I believe this may be my problem as well.. so let me see if I have this correct: I should - 1. Install Vista 2. Create a Partition at least big enough for OSx 3. Reboot into GParted 4. Delete Partition 5. Create FAT32 Partition 6. Reboot with iATKOS disk 7. Win I think this is where I'm messed up.. and I believe the OP may be stuck here as well.. GParted isn't making sense. Anybody care to explain this step(s) in further detail? Ted gparted is pretty self explanatory, not sure what the issue is! it's no different than using disk management in xp or vista to create a partition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teeze Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Thats what it seems like.. but for what ever reason, it doesn't seem to help me any more than the vista drive manager. I still see no "place" to install Leopard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6apxat Posted February 28, 2008 Author Share Posted February 28, 2008 6apxat; Do you intend on using the whole hard drive for Leopard ? Or is Windows also going to be installed? The ideal thing to do is use GParted (i use Parted Magic 2.0 live cd which contains GParted) to set up the partitions you want and format them. Then the Leopard installation will be much easier. yes, the whole drive is intended for OS X (single partition). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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