rawtunes Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 so ive been trying this forever now ive downloaded and tried the following releases iATKOS v1.0i Kalyway 10.5.1 Leo4All Mac OS X 10 5 Leopard ToH and one random one I found online that I dont remember the name of none of them have worked 2 of them have installed fine, at least it says "Install Successful Please Restart" and then i restart and it wont boot up and then if i boot from the DVD it just installs again I have Dell Inspiron E1405 heres my specifics can someone please help me out maybe help me choose which release to use (I have all of them still burned) and i need lots of help getting it to boot up some of the releases i installed would just say "Unable to load Operating System" and some of them would just go to a black screen and give me a blinking cursor in the top left hand corner Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97684-need-lots-of-help-im-about-to-give-up/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Are you choosing to load one of the bootloaders (MBR or EFI)? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97684-need-lots-of-help-im-about-to-give-up/#findComment-697817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawtunes Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Are you choosing to load one of the bootloaders (MBR or EFI)? where do i select this in the Bios? because Ive looked in there and cant seem to find anything but what order to try to boot (eg. Internal HD, CD-Drive, etc) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97684-need-lots-of-help-im-about-to-give-up/#findComment-697820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 No, I mean in the installation menu, when there are the options for drivers, etc. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97684-need-lots-of-help-im-about-to-give-up/#findComment-697825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawtunes Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 No, I mean in the installation menu, when there are the options for drivers, etc. do you know which release that was on because i just tried the Kalyway version last night and i didnt see that in the drivers menu i dled G-Parte Live CD and tried to set the HD to bootable and it said it already was after one of the sucessful installations but it still wouldnt load Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97684-need-lots-of-help-im-about-to-give-up/#findComment-697830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Fly Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 I have the same blinking cusre promble , installs fine but dose not boot.. i chose the EFI in the coustimze menu but in the option when i formated the disk partition for Leopard, i chose the MBR opption instead of an Apple Map or GUID ones... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97684-need-lots-of-help-im-about-to-give-up/#findComment-697853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 The bootloaders are both EFI, you need to still choose one or the other MBR or GUID to match the partition map that you chose for the drive, MBR or GUID. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97684-need-lots-of-help-im-about-to-give-up/#findComment-697858 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawtunes Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 so when do i select MBR or GUID is it in the Disk Utility menu or is it when you select drivers and stuff (the customization screen) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97684-need-lots-of-help-im-about-to-give-up/#findComment-697860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Both. and they have to match. Disk utility has the option for one or the other, then when installing the drivers, choose one bootloader to match. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97684-need-lots-of-help-im-about-to-give-up/#findComment-697861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Fly Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 i dont remeber seeing an opition like that under the EFI Boot Loader just some stock kenerals... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97684-need-lots-of-help-im-about-to-give-up/#findComment-697863 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Fly Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 should i try to use the darwin boot loader instead fo the EFI one...? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97684-need-lots-of-help-im-about-to-give-up/#findComment-697881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawtunes Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 im not seeing the boot option on the disk utility menu Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97684-need-lots-of-help-im-about-to-give-up/#findComment-697896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Fly Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 u click on the options when formatting a drive partition Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97684-need-lots-of-help-im-about-to-give-up/#findComment-697922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawtunes Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 ok yeah i found it how do i know what drivers to install none of those names look like what i have (but im not really sure what i have) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97684-need-lots-of-help-im-about-to-give-up/#findComment-697940 Share on other sites More sharing options...
exman Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Make sure you use the right BIOS settings, otherwise it won't work. Need to set SATA controller to AHCI. and Power scheme to S3 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97684-need-lots-of-help-im-about-to-give-up/#findComment-698036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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