I have got two different builds of osx86 iakaos v7 and Ideneb 1.5 i burned both of them, but by the time I get to the disk utlity, it doesn't scan any of my harddrives or paritions from my laptop

Maybe I need a patch or something, and I only got one blank dvr to spare
and my bios won't let me change the harddrive mode to anything, like SATA or IDE, etc etc

my specs are:

HP DV6929wm
250 Gig SATA HD
4 Gig Ram
Amd Turion X2 2.1 Ghz Dual
Nvidia 7150m



What can I do to this fix?

First off, from my experience with an HP laptop, I think you're lucky to even get either of them to boot.

I assume you have AMD w/nVidia chipset? If so, then yea bro...you gotta have a patched DVD. For my HP attempts I tried many different distros and nothing really worked for me until I got Leo4All v4, I think is the one I got. I'd have to look back through my downloads and see what I got exactly.

You might wanna try iPC 10.5.6 PPF5 Final. If it's not recognizing your hard drives in the disk utility then I'd say it's because the correct chipset driver isn't included in the DVD. It might be there for you to pick to install but not actually installed on the DVD itself to load when the DVD boots. So therefore, you can't get it to recognize your device(s).

Another thing I had to do was use Hirens to format my disk first. I had to format to the FAT32 format and then Leopard had no issue finding the stinking hard drive in the disk utility. I don't know what is and maybe it was just me being an idiot and not knowing what I was doing, don't know. But when I botched an install, that is what I'd have to do or it wouldn't ever see that drive as being there. Those are the only two things I can tell you to try or look into as to how you can get your drive to show up.

I hope that's not a rewritable disk you're trying to use, I've not tried it but I read somewhere that it was a big no-no. Single layer DVD's are pretty cheap...take off to Wal-mart and get yourself a pack. Cause from my experience you are going to need them. I burnt 13 distros until I got one that would boot, work, install and reboot on my laptop & desktop machines.

Good luck!

Originally Posted by TheRealPorkchop

First off, from my experience with an HP laptop, I think you're lucky to even get either of them to boot.

I assume you have AMD w/nVidia chipset? If so, then yea bro...you gotta have a patched DVD. For my HP attempts I tried many different distros and nothing really worked for me until I got Leo4All v4, I think is the one I got. I'd have to look back through my downloads and see what I got exactly.

You might wanna try iPC 10.5.6 PPF5 Final. If it's not recognizing your hard drives in the disk utility then I'd say it's because the correct chipset driver isn't included in the DVD. It might be there for you to pick to install but not actually installed on the DVD itself to load when the DVD boots. So therefore, you can't get it to recognize your device(s).

Another thing I had to do was use Hirens to format my disk first. I had to format to the FAT32 format and then Leopard had no issue finding the stinking hard drive in the disk utility. I don't know what is and maybe it was just me being an idiot and not knowing what I was doing, don't know. But when I botched an install, that is what I'd have to do or it wouldn't ever see that drive as being there. Those are the only two things I can tell you to try or look into as to how you can get your drive to show up.

I hope that's not a rewritable disk you're trying to use, I've not tried it but I read somewhere that it was a big no-no. Single layer DVD's are pretty cheap...take off to Wal-mart and get yourself a pack. Cause from my experience you are going to need them. I burnt 13 distros until I got one that would boot, work, install and reboot on my laptop & desktop machines.

Good luck!

well I only have one blank dvd left, and which one would definity work?

I want at least the one with the sound and internet and graphics card working if possible