Cant see my Sata HDD

[Sajk]

I've been searching everywhere but i cant seem to get my problem solved.

I was trying to install osx on my laptop (Acer Aspire 5101 AWLMI (AMD Turion64@2GHz CPU , 1GB RAM, 110GB HD, ATI Radeon Xpress 1100M card). I used Zephyroths 10.5.1 disc followed everystep on a tutorial i found on this forum. Unfortunately my HDD is a SATA drive so the installer didn't see the drive. I took out the drive and put it in a USB shell (device??thingy?) and then the installer saw the drive and i could complete the install. But afterwords when i tried to boot the system it didn't start, all i could see was a black screen with a cursor blinking in the upperleft corner of the screen. I removed the drive from the USB thingy and put it back in the laptop but the same black screen turned up. This i reckon is becuse of the SATA HDD.

So is there anyone who knows how i can get the istaller to recognize my HDD and let me boot into OSX or if there is some other Osx release that will work with my laptop, doesn't have to be leopard could be tiger aswell aslong as its osx.. so fed up with windows and linux...

[Imkantus]

According to this (http://www.mandrivalinux.eu/showthread.php?t=180054) your notebook has an SB400 chipset, which has not the best support and is definitely unsupported by the distro you're trying to use.

I would try to use iATKOS v7 - I do not know if, but maybe it has the correct device IDs for your chipset added to appleviaata.kext...

[Sajk]

Okay i will try to find the other distro. But the funny thing is that in the tutorial that i read over at the insanelymac forum, they used the same laptop as i have and they have been able to install with this distro.. the only differens being that the had an IDE HDD and not a SATA one.

[Imkantus]

Maybe it is possible to set the SATA mode to AHCI in your BIOS?

[Sajk]

Yeah i read something about that previously. Went in to the BIOS but couldn't really change anything:) Seemed more like i could just see the information but not actually change anything in there.. maybe i should flash the bios to a more newer version, have never done that since i bought the laptop 4 yrs ago;)

[Sajk]

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