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[Saab]

Hello all,

First post, I tried searching as much as possible to eliminate any easy answers. I have a 10.4.6 install DVD, went through the first part of the install. This included formatting my drive using disk utility (which it only reconized 128 gigs of a 250 gig drive, but that's another issue), letting it checksum the disk (slllllllooooooowwww) and then copy all of the files. It then asked to reboot the system.

If I keep DVD in the drive, the system reboots and hangs on the grey apple logo screen. If I take the DVD out of the drive it gives me "b0 error" and stops there.

I'm running this on 3.2 GHz xeon's (dual), the 5000X intel chipset, 250 gig SATAII board and a supermicro mobo. I really don't know if the hardware is supported or not, but it's pretty dang close to the new powermacs, so I think it should be.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ben

[Rammjet]

A b0 error means that when you created the partition, you forgot to set it "active". Most any partition software or bootable utility disk or linux distro can be used to set the partition active. Another way is here: http://forum.insanel...showtopic=22844

Saab, on Aug 9 2006, 01:36 AM, said:

If I keep DVD in the drive, the system reboots and hangs on the grey apple logo screen.

When you did the install, right before clicking the "Install" button, did you first click on the "Customize" button and choose packages for your computer? You had to click on the little arrow to reveal the packages to select.

[Saab]

Wow, how did I not find that after searching "b0 error" and "bo error" for about half an hour.

I didn't customize, I am now. However, when I go into system profiler, it says that I have SSE and SSE2 but doesn't list SSE3. However, I know that these processors do indeed have SSE3. Should it show up here?

Well, thanks anyways,

Ben

[madzie]

Hi Saab,

This is a common error, caused by a fault with the 10.4.6 Disk Utility not writing the MBR on the HDD.

Follow this to get your machine working!

1) Install 10.4.6 as usual with the customised patches.
2) Reboot the machine to get the b0 error. (This is important because it means you've got to this point.)
3) Download Hiren's Boot CD (http://www.9down.com) and burn a copy to a blank CD.
4) Boot Hiren's CD, then on the menu, select 'Boot Magic 8'
5) Your MAC OS partition will be visible as the primary partition, press 1 to rewrite the MBR.
6) Machine will automatically reboot with the fixed MBR and boot into MAC OSX.
7) Have fun!

[FastRx]

what menus in the cd should i choose to get to boot magic 8?

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Saab, on Aug 9 2006, 01:47 AM, said:

However, when I go into system profiler, it says that I have SSE and SSE2 but doesn't list SSE3. However, I know that these processors do indeed have SSE3. Should it show up here?

Well, thanks anyways,

Ben

There's nothing to worry about. OSX knows you have SSE3 and will use it(as long as you chose only the sse3 package in Customize during install, not SSE2..).