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5,500 reads · 2010-12-31 – 2011-01-04
Note 10.X Core ASUS P5K / P5Q AHCI / SATA

snow leopard 1.6 wont boot

i have just just managed to install snow leopard usings hazard dvd 1.6 and i cannot get it to boot. i have asus P5K WS and q6600 2.4. a single 500gb sata hdd and a pata dvd drive. can you please tell me how to boot into the os using the…

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@adnanabbas Published 2010-12-31
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OSx86 Core & 10.X
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5,500 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 2 dispatches) · 2010-12-31 – 2011-01-04
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@adnanabbas@00010

i have just just managed to install snow leopard usings hazard dvd 1.6 and i cannot get it to boot. i have asus P5K WS and q6600 2.4. a single 500gb sata hdd and a pata dvd drive. can you please tell me how to boot into the os using the dvd at least. i have no other os installed. (AHCI is enabled). i get boot 0: GPT, boot 0: test, boot 0: done, boot 1 error. or if i change it to raid in bios i get, EBIOS read error.

thanks is advance

Synthesized Community Field Notes

1 technical responses curated from 2 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @00010 2011-01-04

Try putting rd=disk0s1

or

rd=disk0

rd=disk0s2

in your boot loader as a bootflag.

00010

Sources & Contributor Provenance (2 credited usernames · Thread #6842)
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@adnanabbasPrimary Author12010-12-31
@00010Contributor12011-01-04