@ozzeh

I know, tl;dr, but please bear with me here. After googling almost everything I could think of, reading insanelymac and here; trying three different distros (old ToH disk I had lying around, iAtkos v2.0i, and iDeneb 10.5.5), The only…

“the b/g card apparently works if you modify the IO80211Family.kext, but I get a link/load error when i try to kextload -t it, so im not too sure there. Powermanagement didnt work for me, i tried vanilla acpiplatform.kext, and the modified o…”

“I just stopped bouncing off the walls enough to post that THE DAMN THING IS NOW WORKING! Look for the leopard flat image, dd that to a blank partition using this command, changing Harddisk and Partition numbers google "dd for windows", firs…”

“BIOS didnt detect my nano, possibly could be because it technically wasn't bootable at the time. Tried rawriting the flat image to my hard drive, but for some reason the partition was corrupted, and I dont want to wipe the whole disk like t…”

“Hey, welcome to my boat. What model hard drive and cd rom do you have? Bios? I have the hitachi 160?gb sata drive, and the non lightscribe dvd drive "Optiarc DVD RW AD-7560S ATA Device" Thread I started for the same issue: Another SB700 iss…”

“Yeah, I shrunk the volume and created a fat32 partition on the drive, largest flash drive i have is 2gb, ill see if i can get that working”

“reflashed to F.08, still no good. which dvd do you have? I know mine is SATA which messes up a few of my PE cds which used to work fine on my old laptop.”

“the only thing could think of is that the dvd I have was mislabeled, and is not actually 10.5.5. What processor, hard drive, and which boot order do you have set in the bios? edit: one thing i did notice is that when I start up I see 4098 c…”

“I do have iDeneb, according to the cd its 1.3, 10.5.5, I never get to the point where I have the ability to customize the install. Which boot options do you use to get into the installer?”

“Alright, thank you for your response. I'll try extracting and repacking the kexts again, as soon as I can steal the dv2000 back for a few hours.”

“The point I was making was that to actually write the file to get him past the loop, did not require a passwd call. To log in after, yes, but not just to touch it.”

“(had the same problem on my dv2000, did the above but modified the steps a bit) if I'm not mistaken the error message is telling you that diskutil cant be run in single-user mode. try the above procedures but take out the fsck and passwd co…”