xiquillo Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Hello, I am pretty new to this but have been already about 3 weeks trying to install some version of leopard in my new laptop. I tried it with Kalyway as it is the only one that seems to recognize my hard drives. I have an HP Pavilion 9787, with 2 250gb HD. In the first one I have Windows Vista as it came installed by HP. However, I wanted to use the whole second one for Leopard. I use Disk Utility, I format everything to HFS plus (tried with both GUID and MBR partitions). Then I install Leopard and everything goes alright until installation program reboots, I take the DVD out and I get in to f***ing Vista again. I activated the second HD using MS Windows disk utility. I have also tried with and without Vanilla Kernel but nothing happens. If I leave the installation DVD in, I can only install Leopard again and if I leave it out I get straight into Vista. Any idea what I can do? I have read many posts but no one seems to have the same problem, as my problem is that I haven't even been able to enter into my already installed Leopard. Thanks for your help in advance guys! This is what I have as a Laptop, hope it helps: HP Pavilion 9787 Mainboard Manufacturer : Quanta MP Support : 1 Processor(s) MPS Version : 1.40 Model : 30CB Version : 79.28 Processor Model : Intel® Core2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz Speed : 2.49GHz Two HD like this: Manufacturer : Hitachi Name : HTS542525K9S Version : BBFO Removable Drive : No Embedded Media Changer : No SCSI General Properties Target ID : 0 Logical Unit No. : 0 ANSI SCSI Approved Version : SCSI-4 Device Connected to Port : Yes Width : 8-bit Addressing : 8-bit Multi-Ported Device : No Relative Addressing Mode : No Synchronous Transfers Support : No Data Transfer on Secondary Bus : No Asynchronous Event Notification : No Queueing On : No Linked Commands : No Soft Reset : No Normal ACA : No Terminate I/O : No Disk Properties Capacity : 233GB Block Size : 512 byte(s) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiquillo Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 Any idea what this could be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricki Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 did you turn dual core stuff off in the bios? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiquillo Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 Hello, thanks a lot for your answer. I have to turn off dual core in the Bios? Why is this? I don't even think I have that option in my Bios :-S Any other way to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomnimac Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 haha you need to press F12 or associated button at the post screen to choose the other hard drive to boot from, or go into the bios and manually change the boot order. No need to turn off dual core. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiquillo Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 Thanks for your answer. I actually tried this on the first place but the only options available in my Bios are Optical Drive, HDD or USB HD. It's pretty annoying because I cannot actually choose from which of the 2 HDD that I have installed I wanna boot. So this doesn't work either :-(. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomnimac Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Hmm that really sucks, there has to be an option there to arrange the boot devices in some order. Did you install EFI? If you don't install efi you can use BCDEDit to make a vista bootmenu with osx on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiquillo Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 Well, now I'm not so sure anymore. I installed Kalyway 10.5.2 and in the License details it says it comes with EFI v8. However, theoretically EFI would make my Leopard boot, right? I'm trying it with BCEDIT. Thanks!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomnimac Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 You have to select EFI bootloader in install screen to customise intstall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiquillo Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 yeah, that's what I read, but I can't seem to find that option. When I click on customize, the only thing i can choose is the kernel (I choose Vanilla), video cards, mobo's, soundcards, etc... but no reference to EFI bootloader. What should I do to install EFI bootloader? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomnimac Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 ok good efi isnt installed you can use BCDEdit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiquillo Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 Hi, I can't really manage with bcdedit. Isn't there an easier way with EFI? Can I still install EFI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiquillo Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 Ok, I kind of manage with easyBCD. However, I get an error when I reboot. I think the path to the mac bootloader is not right. Could anyone tell me where is the archive that loads MacOS? Thanks for your help in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomnimac Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Yeah easybcd makes it easier. the mac bootloader is in /usr/standalone/i386 If you have efi it won't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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