sr5878 Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 hey after a number of barriers and hours of time, i finally have kalyway 10.5.1 installed sucessfully... or so i thought. the machine restarted and my computer gave me a message that 'no bootable device -- insert boot disk'. the install, formatting, etc. all went without a hitch. my specs: 2.7ghz pentium 4 1.5gb ram 80gb sata hdd pata dvd burner umm.. some kinda gateway motherboard. my machine is a 5310S. 915GV intel chipset SSE2 integrated graphics what should i do? what could possibly be wrong? in the 'customize' section i'm selecting the vanilla kernel (both checkboxes), the SSE2 box, none of the vid drivers, audio, or w/lan drivers, and the GUID boot. thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevronX Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 It has to do with the Bootloader not working. I ended up installing Grub for mine and configuring it. I am new at this myself so can't really tell you what to do other then Google "for Leopard Bootloader PC" or "Leopard grub" to find some guides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sr5878 Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 ok, i'm downloading ubuntu now. by the way, i reinstalled without vanilla enabled... i did some searching and apparently vanilla isn't compatible with pentium 4. same error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sr5878 Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 installed ubuntu... restarted... and it booted right into OSX! WOW even on my pentium 4 this thing is fast! :D thanks chevron! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bydgoszcz Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Did you install as MBR or GUID? I installed GUID and it says no bootable device, when I try to install Grub off of Ubuntu, I can't maybe someone can pass me a good guide as to how to install Grub on a GUID drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
questor42 Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 I had the same problem. I installed Kalyway 10.5.2, and it installed, and went through the setup process with no problem. Upon reboot, got the "no bootable device -- insert boot disk" message. Following advice from another post, I marked the partition "Active" and my problem went away, booting is fine now. No need to install another boot loader. Boot up the Kalyway install DVD again. Under the "Utilities" menu, open "Terminal". Issue "diskutil list". My hard disk showed up as /dev/disk0, and my install partition is /dev/disk0s2 Issue "diskutil unmount /dev/disk0" Issue "fdisk -e /dev/disk0" Issue "f 2", where 2 comes from "/dev/disk0s2". The response back is "Partition 2 marked active". Issue "w". The response back is "Writing MBR at offset 0." Issue "q". Fdisk exits. Quit the Terminal program, and Quit the installer. My system: - Pentium 630 cpu in an Intel D945PVS mobo, 2 Gig Ram, Seagate 500G Sata, Gigabyte GV-NX66T128VP 6600GT video, Plextor PX-708A burner, DGE-530T Ethernet, sleep works, very happy so far, onboard lan and sound not yet tried, I feel an iMic purchase coming on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reck101101 Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 Thats crazy! I didnt got the no bootable device thing, I only got b0 error(its zero not oh). You guys know something about b0 error? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BKKPAPARAZZI Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 Umm... do U need to use dual boot right ? I think it didn't set ur drive to mbr ,.. dun worry U can recover by restart windows put the windows disk and use cmd prompt ... make ur partion active " diskpart > select disk 0> select parttion "x" (x is the partition that installed os U wanna boot ) active> exit then restart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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