Viper42391 Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Hello, I just tried to install tiger on a secondary hard drive. The install went smooth and when it finished, it said it was going to reboot. Although I still had my windows (primary) hard drive as primary boot, so it booted to that instead of the DVD. I shut it down and tried to boot from the secondary hard drive, but it said there was nothing to boot from. Then I booted from the DVD and tried to boot from there, but it just came back into the DVD. How do I boot from the secondary hard drive after installation? I have read a few other posts that say to format the drive as FAT32 before install, so I am trying that now. Since the hard drive is only 20 gb, I can format it using windows, correct? When installing, should I leave the DVD boot as primary? I am pretty new to this, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93428-tiger-on-a-dell-precision-360-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper42391 Posted March 14, 2008 Author Share Posted March 14, 2008 Okay. I just tried to reinstall with the hard drive preformatted to fat32... No luck. It says the same "No boot device" error. The thing is, even if I put the dvd in, it still doesn't boot. It just boots up to the installer. Is there something that I have to do in the terminal so that it will boot it next time i start from the DVD? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93428-tiger-on-a-dell-precision-360-help/#findComment-666202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper42391 Posted March 14, 2008 Author Share Posted March 14, 2008 I think I have narrowed it down... I think that my BIOS is not allowing the OS X bootloader from the DVD boot from the hard drive because it is in the secondary slot. I have a Dell Precision 360 3 ghz intel p4 cpu 2 gb ddr ram Nvidia Quadro FX 500 video Anyone? Ideas?? Solutions??? I would love to get this running and want to go with the regular install vs. the VMware install because of the speed difference. Could somebody help me? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93428-tiger-on-a-dell-precision-360-help/#findComment-666273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisGuy Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 I'm haveing the same exact prob that you are being that i have the same specs. Install says sucessful goes into leopard but there is no cd/dvd detected upon rebooting halts and ask which os then loops. precision 360 2.8mhz 1024ram nvidia fx500 80gig seagate Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93428-tiger-on-a-dell-precision-360-help/#findComment-756739 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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