Restart your computer.... Bastardo! Options

[Punter]

Those G4's on e-bay for 3/400 quid are looking mightly tempting at the mo! So I've read about people having pthe exact problems as me - I put the dvd in the drive, boot from it and as it pops up into the mac type screen (the first thing you see really) it says in several languages that I have to restart the computer. I'm figuring this is almost certainly happening becasue of the harware I'm using. (AMD processor, Gigabyte m/b, ) so I reckon the best way to get around it is to download a different hack of osx. Surely one of them has to work?!

In everyone here's experience, first, second, third... hand, doesn't matter, what is the best and most reliable to work hack? I'm looking for a name and a version, my download speeds seem to be pretty feeble at the mo so I'd rather not just go for trial and error downloads!

Alternativly, if anyone has some ideas about how to sort out this probelm as it stands give us a shout! I read somewhere before I started all this that someone had to update their bios before it all happened?! I dont have a clue how to go about (I'm sure id suss it out) but is this worth a shot??

Im a student and I cant really afford a new mac, so go help me out! cheers

[aqualeviathan]

Did you click "customize" and choose the correct patches during the installation? I'm assuming you just went straight through.

[Punter]

I dont get to the installation proper. I get to 'press any key to install mac osx, press F8 for options' The options are 'type -v to start up with diagnostic messages' and 'type ? to learn about advanced startup options'. -v seems to end up with the computer freezing at some diag check still in a dos style window. -? gives me nothing interesting. Just pressing any key to install leads to me seeing a message in a mac installation screen saying restart you computer. No options anywhere, nothing to customize. I guess I'll just get another hack yeah? Or have I misunderstood you?

[totokan]

err. on the -v, what does it freeze up on? If you could tell me please?

[aqualeviathan]

Or have I misunderstood you?

Sorry, I was the one who misunderstood. I didn't read the orginal post clearly. Since it panics before installation ever begins, totokan is correct; knowing where the error occurs would be extremely useful.

[Punter]

On pressing 'any key to install' I get a couple of lines of dialogue in the DOS visual style, then the screen changes to what I assume is the start of the OSX installer. As soon as this screen appears it is saying restart you computer. The last piece of information on this screen is 'Kernel version : Darwin Kernel version 8.4.1 : Tue Jan 3 18:23:53 PST 2006 ; root : xnw - 792.7.90.obj~1/release_I386' . You can see the cursor has moved down a couple of lines under this but nothing else has happened. This is the point it freezes upon pressing -v as well. Thats it

[totokan]

relying on my own short experience, what DVD burning program did you use, how fast did you burn, what brand of dvd, type (+R,-R) etc.?

[Punter]

its all good on that front Im sure. Nero, Verbatim Dvd's, Plextor burner. I did burn at 12x, but I've never had any problem burning at (its fasted) speed before.

[VirtualGuitarist]

Try to start in 'safe mode' typing F8, then -x ? or -x -s ?

[totokan]

12x is too fast, I think. Try at the LOWEST SPEED possible. I did it at only 4.8x using Sony dvd-r, and it turned out that was the problem.

[Punter]

Now i've tried both Myzar 10.4.5(?) and JaS 10.4.7, both have resulted in the exact same problem as stated above. I'm at a complete loss now. Anyone else got an idea? Thinking buying a mac is the only real way to go here, shite! I was looking forward to putting that £400 towards some new wheels for my car!

[totokan]

well, did you burn them at 12 speed again? I'd try a different brand of DVD, as I got it to work that way (plus slower burn speeds)