jahilton2002 Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 it loops on boot i've tried the dvd in the drive and with out, tried -x, -v -s same just reboot...... i can't read anything as it reboots so fast.... th installatioin was fine???? any help would be great thx intel p4 3.4ghz 3gb mem 250 sata hdd 8800gts intel board thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killabyte Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Yes I just installed and are having the same problem. I have a really old Dell, 512 ram, 3.00ghz pentium4, 160GB hd, intel integrated graphics. Did you install the vanilla kernels? I'm now installing without them, ill let you know how it goes. What i did is i got kalaway, partitioned disk as GUID, OSX extended (journaled), installed vanilla kernels. Judging by the hardware compatibility list, it seems as though some p4's require vanilla to be left uncheched. Maybe this is the issue? In 15 minutes the installation will be done EDIT: okay, just finished? installing. There was a little twirly animation when it was like 95% done, no idea why, then it rebooted for no reason. then, just a black screen. im gonna try again, i think that the vanilla kernel is the problem. if that stilll doesn't work, i'm gonna try to enable SS2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cywhy Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I am also having the same problem, like kilabyte said it might just be the Pentium 4 chip, so you might suceed without the vanilla kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahilton2002 Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 sure i've tried with both... it installs fine tho? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbmac Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Off topic Please use decent subject lines. it's really annoying when people make subject lines teasers, why not just say what you want so people can skim quickly?? I mean, do you write subject lines for your emails the same way too? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahilton2002 Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 sorry i'm not following?????? anyways; Killabyte did what you said and it boots fine now thx, just need to find my 8800gtx and belkin wireless drivers now lol this thred can now be locked if needed..... but thx anyways newbmac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KPunk Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 i am also currently having this issue. This going to be my 4th install try. First time i had this boot issue with MBR. So i figured maybe MBR had something to do with it so i tried GUID, GUID the install failed. Went back to MBR but this time i had MBR selected within the customization tab, (so it boots without disk) and it still reboots at start. I am going to try to install now without Vanilla with MBR and see how this goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killabyte Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 really? because what I had to do to fix it ,after doing lots of googling, i used toh kernel or whatever it is. UPDATE: at the boot, press a key and type:"tohkernel cpus=1" this should fix it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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