[Bear Hunter]

Originally Posted by jaswai

Seems like bad news for the time being from the world of A07 BIOS. Have tried straight SL install, BIOS downgrade and direct to disk install which reportedly worked for A06. Here I get a crude "stop" type graphic appearing above the apple after a minute or so, then nothing more. Safe boot yields the same. <theory> A07 is an attempted hackintosh killer? </theory> Anyway, guess that means the game's afoot - admittedly for players more accomplished than me... Any ideas welcome: the light of my life to whom this was promised is showing signs of skepticism!

Are you sure the failed external drive approach wasn't the result of a failed bios downgrade before hand? Ie corrupted bios?

[jaswai]

In between the BIOS downgrade failure and the failed external drive attempt XP ran fine, so I imagine BIOS not corrupted. Will be restoring it to XP at some point today to start over...

[Zayl]

would win98 DOS files work too?, im having trouble finding 95files


EDIT:

never mind it worked perfectly thanks so much

[charliep37]

Gentlemen,
I have the mini 10v and have installed the OSX 10.5 on it according to the instructions. All was working fine until I tried to update the OSX. I used the software update utility and all was downloaded and rebooted to install, after installation the system tried to reboot again but will not. I get the spinning wheel but it seems to time out, then blue screen, then a white screen and froze. Anyone else have these problems? Any ideas?

[chiefkeckers]

worked a charm looks way less scary then removing the HD 5*
now to try and boot osx

[Codename]

is there any way of doing this with a dvd rom i dont have a thumb drive and ive been using netbook cd. the same problem acures when i try installing though but when i tried this with a disk it didnt work at all it just went right into my windows os without showing the command prompt like screen at all. please help me.

[apropos360]

Hi,

Just joined the forum after trying for 2 days to install on Mini 10v! Long story - tried various methods but ended up with and external HD connected via USB.

Along the way I did find a fix to using the BootMaker though!

Trying to install 10.5 Leopard, but goes only to apple screen and no further.

My BIOS may too old? Says A00? Not had any success with trying to create an USB flash drive... I'm a mac man really so a bit poor on the DOS/BIOS/CMOS PC side.

Tried so many links, probably me going wrong!

Any help would be most appreciated!

IGNORE ME... Tried agin from the start, this time I used a G5 PPC to create USB drive.

Thanks to all the guides, mechdrew and Gizmodo