Iatkos 10.5.7 Boot with no CD after succesful Install

[Bunglebp]

Hi all..

I hope someone can help me with the below?

I succesfully installed IATKOS 10.5.7 on my laptop(specs below) with Voodoo Kernel V7 and Chameleon V1 and V2 and after install i reboot and i get a screen with a spinning sign and get no further..

I reboot my computer and see no boot screen and when it comes to booting from the CD i hit F8 and then i type in RD=disk0s2 and OSX boots fine!! and seems to work excpet my WIFI adapter - Belkin

If i boot without the CD i get a boot error and have to restart my computer - No bootdisk! i used 1 partition and GUID (have tried the other options aswell) with MAC osx extended Journaled..

Can any1 please advise how to boot without the CD please?

I have also tried to use Bootcamp but i get told to update my Boot ROM which i dont know how to do :)

Laptop specs are -

2.40 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Not hyper-threaded Board: KAPOK Intel 845MP
Bus Clock: 2400 megahertz
BIOS: SystemSoft Version 1.00 10/22/97Drives Memory Modules c,d120.02 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
50.24 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8121 [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

HITACHI_DK23DA-40 [Hard drive] (40.01 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 14E90H, rev 00J0A0A1, SMART (http://www.belarc.com/smart.html) Status: Healthy
WD 800BB External USB Device [Hard drive] (80.02 GB) -- drive 1

512Mb RAM

Standard floppy disk controller
Intel(R) 82801CAM Ultra ATA Controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller] MOBILITY RADEON 9000 [Display adapter]
Default MonitorBus Adapters MultimediaTexas Instruments PCI-1520 CardBus Controller (2x)
Intel(R) 82801CA/CAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2482
Intel(R) 82801CA/CAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2484
Intel(R) 82801CA/CAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2487
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Companion Controller (2x)
VIA USB Enhanced Host Controller Intel(r) 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller
Logitech Microphone (Fusion)
Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit External
Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device

[Nameci]

Have you selected a boot loader during the install?

[Bunglebp]

Yeah ive tried Chameleon v1 and v2 and BCD 2.0 but with no joy.

[Nameci]

have you selected two bootloaders or just one?

[Bunglebp]

Ive tried 1 boot loader on its own and 2 bootloaders together, Ive tried the below and none seem to work
(Easy BCD 2.0, Chameleon 1 and 2, Xiezhy, PC EFI, Boot camp)

[Nameci]

How have you been able to install your bootloader? I have the same installation, have updated to 10.5.8, and almost nothing destroys my install. So far I have cloned my drive and reinstalled the bootloader from the iAtkos v7 disk and still it performs just as well.

I supposed you to reinstall the bootloader again, just select one, or better yet reinstall you Leopard again and select only one bootloader. I have selected chameleon 2...

Hth.

[Bunglebp]

I have tried installing Chameleon 1 and 2 and Xiezhy from the Iatkos boot disk before and after the install, I have tried only 1 being installed at 1 time and i have tried all boot loaders installed at same time.

I have also tried installing no boot loaders and then installing Chameleon V2 from the installer package in OSx

I have also tried Boot camp but it says i need to update my boot ROM which i do not know how to do.

I have also tried dual boot with XP on 1 partition and OSX on the 2nd partition, and still no joy as when i boot OSx it changes the active partition and XP wont boot until i change the active partition again and OSx still only boots with the CD when i type rd=disk0s2

Thanx for the replies! and i think determination is kicking in :)

[sparksthesquid]

I would try booting into your install and installing Chameleon manually I Had this happen to me once and that solved it good luck:)

[Bunglebp]

Hey all..

I have just changed the active partition and now i get to boot into XP or OSX with the chameleon bootloader

I have XP on partition 1 and OSX on partition2

I now have a new problem..I can boot into OSX with the CD all ok but if i boot using Chameleon i get a grey screen with the apple logo and a spinning white disc thing and no further..

Do i need to change boot options or something to make this work?