LawlessPPC install stopped
I've tried Leopard to install on a Gigabyte SB700 MB. After 50% the installation stopped. After reboot, computer stopped by "AHCI drive init" Can't get into BIOS, can't open the DVD drive, can't change boot device. What can I do now?
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- @FirstHackTosh Published 2008-10-24
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I've tried Leopard to install on a Gigabyte SB700 MB. After 50% the installation stopped. After reboot, computer stopped by "AHCI drive init"
Can't get into BIOS, can't open the DVD drive, can't change boot device.
What can I do now?
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Second question: Is it possible to install X on a FW-Drive?
Okay, I turned off the PC. Later I switched it on and I can boot up to WinXP. But can't select the FW-Drive
There is a selection for USB-Drives, but my drives only have FW
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2 technical responses curated from 5 original dispatches
as long as your computer allows you to select which drive to boot from (for me this includes pressing f12 to load the boot manager in bios) and when you are installing from the DVD, the drive is selectable as a possible install location, then yes. but beware, it is slower and may cause crashes if you are doing too many disk intensive tasks.
Then the answer is no... you can't boot it up that way. At least not to m knowledge.
your Bios has to allow you to boot up that way.
UNLESS... if you can boot up from your Install DVD and find out which disk the OS sees the FW disk as by opening up Terminal and typing
diskutil listthen when you reboot your computer, keep the install disk in the drive and press f8 during the countdown. for the bootflag, enter
/dev/disk1s1or whatever disk and partition the command diskutil gave you from Terminal.
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
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| @FirstHackTosh | Primary Author | 3 | 2008-10-24 |
| @nfoav8or | Contributor | 2 | 2008-10-24 → 2008-10-25 |