NVE THIS Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 I can boot to the Zephryoth 10.5.2 AMD DVD (without needing the –v option) and it loads up without errors to the install screen. If I open the disk utilities with NO USB hard drive attached it doesn't even pick up my internal SATA hard drive. This is why I thought SATA would be a problem. Now, I was thinking that I may need to create a partition on part of my drive and format it as OSX? I have Acronis Disk Director Suite but don't know if I can format it in the needed type. Anyway, that is that. Also, I know that USB hard drives weren't designed to run OS's but I have one available and it's a good test platform. I attached my 30G USB hard drive and loaded the OSX installation, it picked up my USB hard drive as an available drive to install on, I formatted it as OSX extended and then went on with the install. I chose the customizations and I think I selected just the Audio A97 drivers and one other for Nvidia. The installation completed and I saw the success screen. When I chose USB HD as the boot device in the boot menu, all I see is a blinking cursor. Nothing else. So, with that said, any ideas. I've got it installed on the USB drive, would like to dual boot with my vista install. Thanks. -Slevin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94825-dv6500-zephyroth-1052-amd-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
NVE THIS Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 anyone??? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94825-dv6500-zephyroth-1052-amd-install/#findComment-676369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyper Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Create 1 partition on your internal HD and name it Leopard then format it as Mac OS x Extended Journaled and click apply . then u install on that partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94825-dv6500-zephyroth-1052-amd-install/#findComment-676381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NVE THIS Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 Create 1 partition on your internal HD and name it Leopard then format it as Mac OS x Extended Journaled and click apply . then u install on that partition. When I load the leopard install I don't see any disks in the Disk Utility? I'll try and format a part of my partition on my HD and see if that works. UPDATE... I can boot to the USB leopard install by having the DVD in the drive and typing: mach_kernel rd=disk1s1 -v (may work w/out -v it may just take a long time to boot) Leopard loads up and I was able to walk through the account setup and registration. It loads, but this is not optimal. I still need to look around and see what works and what doesn't, but so far I think that my internal DVD drive doesn't work, I didn't choose a wireless network to join, but it did pick one up so I assume that wireless works, I'm not sure about the display adapter, my resolution is 1024x768 and it has a nvidia reference. -Slevin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94825-dv6500-zephyroth-1052-amd-install/#findComment-676435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NVE THIS Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 bump again. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94825-dv6500-zephyroth-1052-amd-install/#findComment-677100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyper Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 It usually takes a while to boot because it is a External HD instead of an Internal one. Anyway you have to boot off using the DVD because you may have not chosen the partition using MBR , but instead u have selected GUID which is not preferable. Go back and reinstall creating 1 partition , goint to options and selecting MBR , then partition it. It should work without the DVD in the driver afterwards. Good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94825-dv6500-zephyroth-1052-amd-install/#findComment-677124 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NVE THIS Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 It usually takes a while to boot because it is a External HD instead of an Internal one. Anyway you have to boot off using the DVD because you may have not chosen the partition using MBR , but instead u have selected GUID which is not preferable. Go back and reinstall creating 1 partition , goint to options and selecting MBR , then partition it. It should work without the DVD in the driver afterwards. Good luck. Do you have any idea how to get it to see the SATA hard drive during the install? Do I have to do something to the install DVD prior to buring it, I'm a lil new so like, having to comple something like I've seen with the USB sticks and ktexts or something. Forgive my ignorance. Thanks. -Slevin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94825-dv6500-zephyroth-1052-amd-install/#findComment-677309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyper Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Do you have any idea how to get it to see the SATA hard drive during the install? Do I have to do something to the install DVD prior to buring it, I'm a lil new so like, having to comple something like I've seen with the USB sticks and ktexts or something. Forgive my ignorance. Thanks. -Slevin What is your motherboards chipset, also consider including your pc specs in your signature. It will just make it easy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94825-dv6500-zephyroth-1052-amd-install/#findComment-677648 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NVE THIS Posted March 24, 2008 Author Share Posted March 24, 2008 What is your motherboards chipset, also consider including your pc specs in your signature. It will just make it easy. I have an HP Pavilion dv6500 ADM Turion 64 X2, 4GB PC5300 DDR2 667MHz, 140GB SATA HD, Nvidia 8400GS M, Broadcom a/b/g/n wireless, bluetooth. Those are most of my specs, let me know if you need any more. Also, updated info, I'm actually typing this from leopard Safari, YAY! Also, Skyper, thanks I chose the MBR EFI and I can just boot to the HD, great. But a strange problme, I have to boot with -v, and it takes about 7-10 min. I would say. If i just boot it, I see the grey apple screen forever, I've never had it load that way. Thanks for the help. -Slevin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94825-dv6500-zephyroth-1052-amd-install/#findComment-679885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NVE THIS Posted March 24, 2008 Author Share Posted March 24, 2008 Does anyone know what I need to to to make my graphics work fully? I've got an Nvidia 8400GS M in my dv6500, and I can't play any dvd's or use logic studio because it says it doesn't have a compatible graphics driver. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -Slevin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94825-dv6500-zephyroth-1052-amd-install/#findComment-680073 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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