[elgreco]

I have tried everything! Short of sacrifying a firstborn to some obscure god, I can't think of anything else to try!

I have plugged/unplugged USB/power of the DVD-player. I have read every post on this forum regarding this problem and tried to duplicate what someone else has done to fix this problem, but to no avail! I've been on it for the last 5 days now! I started last Wednesday and have been at it every night! I just want it to work, I want leopard on my dell mini...

I'm using a 10.5.1 Leopard retail DVD bought from amazon and a LG external USB dual layer DVD-burner.

Sometimes even when I boot into windows on the mini it doesn't recognize the Leo DVD. But when I hook it up to any other comp (PC and mac) it recognizes it on the first try. Only when it is connected to the dell mini it gives me "Insert a disc into the drive"-error.

What I have done:
- powercycling the dvd
- uplug/plug the dvd
- burned several copies of the retail dvd on different speeds and tried with those
- praying, lots of it

What happenes:
The boot123 cd boots fine, but after I switch to leo-disc and press enter nothing really happenes. It just stays that way with no acivity on the drive. After a while the external dvd powers down because there is no activity with the drive. In the bootsequence I get an error about an apple.boot.plist -file but I read that I should ignore it and it is normal.

I don't know what else to try now, I can't think of anything else to do. I want to use the "Type11" method, but this is driving me crazy!

Please help me before I loose my mind altogether!

Thank you for your time, looking forward to reading your solutions!

/ elgreco

[malcolmct]

I went through the same sort of thing - fortunately I have a large number of laptop and full-size DVD drives with USB cases at my disposal and was eventually able to find a combination which worked for me.

Try the following:

- Ensure that the laptop is powered, I never got things to work when it was running on battery.

- If you are running a USB-powered laptop DVD drive, connect an external power supply - even with a powered laptop, the USB port never seemed to be able to deliver enough juice.

- Reset the computer's BIOS to defaults - I'm not quite sure why that helped, but it did.

Malcolm

[elgreco]

I've had it plugged in (the mini) to the wall all the time and the DVD-drive has its own power brick. And I've tried every possible BIOS combination...

I don't have that many drives to try, I only have one external drive. I'm off to buy another drive and an 8GB USB stick, maybe that will help.

But you eventually got it to work?

What happens with mine is, actually, nothing! It just sits there and nothing happens. No error or activity what so ever!

Off to the store now, please leave suggestions that I can try!

Is it easy to get an image of the leo-dvd to an usb-stick?

[i-blis]

I had the same problem on my last install.

I know it is silly but I shaked my DVD drive a little (an internal drive plugged in with ide-usb adaptor) and it worked !

[elgreco]

No tip is to silly, I started chanting in tounges hoping that would help...

Well, it did and it is WORKING NOW!!! Now I too have a mini with os x! I can be just like the other children...

What I did was I got hold of an old external harddrive case with an IDE-USB adapter in it at a friends place, opened it up and connected my internal drive with it to the mini. The external usb drive didn't for some reason recognize the leopard dvd. But the internal did!

Me very happy now!! :lol:

I had some trouble after the install with the miniscript. It quit on me on the 2fingerscroll-thingy, so I opened the script file and ran the remaining commands in the terminal. That's how I got sound to work. But I still don't have 2 finger scroll, if anyone knows how to enable it, let me know! I have the prefspane and everything, just nothing happens when i slide two fingers on the trackpad.

Thanks everyone for making such a cool install, it plays nice with the other macs at home!
They don't tease the mini anymore because he is infected with windows, he is cured now!

My next project will be installing os x on a ASUS EEE BOX. Suggestions welcome on how I can do it best. I want to use an 123-disc on it, but this one is tailored for the mini. Haven't found one for the asus yet...

I'm very happy now, this is really cool! I've even set up automatic syncing between my macs and right now I'm working on setting up time machine for the whole network! This is fun!

...I probably should get out more... :geek:

[i-blis]

Happy you got it up and running 8-)

2-fingers-scroll is almost impossible to set up correctly (see Type11 remarks in installation sticky post). I gave up for the moment.

[elgreco]

I've given up on the 2finger scroll-thingy. I'm just happy that it works!

No if I can just get the eee box to play nice with os x...

Does it (or the EEE 1000h) have a bootloader 123 cd?

Any suggestions welcome on how I can make that work!

[nvrmore100]

I had the same problem, kept getting an "EBIOS Read Error" on block 0. It would do this 10 to 20 times, and eventually put me back at the boot prompt. I scrounged around the office and found a powered external DVD (mine was USB powered off two ports), and it worked without any issues at all.

[bucksatan]

"Reset the computer's BIOS to defaults - I'm not quite sure why that helped, but it did."

Yes, the above worked for me after many a long hour of trying.
After booting once then it would not boot again from the CD - so went into the bios and set it as default again... save reboot then worked.

Thanks!