/com.apple.Boot.plist not found !, What the hell? Options

[megavolkan]

Death to Jmicron
Just kidddin', i need to find a sata dvdv drive..

[Chupacabraz]

Thank god I found this thread! This problem has been driving me insane! Anyway, after reading everybody's posts I figured I throw my 2 cents of desperation in. Here are my specs:

MSI P965 Neo
Intel Core Duo 2 1.86ghz
320gb Western Digital IDE HD
1gb RAM
ATI x1600

So basically I tried everything you guys tried, with the exception of the USB boot and the IDE -> SATA converter, all to no avail. Today I went and bought a SATA HD to test out, and the OS X still failed.

My conclusion is that, at least for me, booting OSX on a 965 MB is impossible at this point and time. Even with the SATA plugged in, it only saw the PXE Boot Client, which means it wasn't reading either my IDE controller or my SATA controller, so tomorrow I'm returning my 965 for a 945. Good luck with everything!

[mMiniImManN]

Now wait just a minute, it may still be possible! The IDE to SATA device is a little 12 buck converter... (It's for making the DVD Burner a sata device, not the HDD I'm installing to; I've got plenty of sata devices and checked that part first). Mine is still in the mail, I'm hoping to get it tomorrow sometime.. latest friday (it helps entering your credit card info correctly, heh, damn date check). Well, I'll let everyone know what happens yet, and I just got windows re-installed, so will try install through VMWare, I'm pretty sure the OS will boot natively once it's installed

So keep your hopes up, 2 more test trials to do, and well, hope both of them work.

[mMiniImManN]

OK, here's the deal:

Got my IDE to SATA connector today (FINALLY!!).
Plugged my dvd burned into ther, plugged it into my main SATA controller (not that damn jmicron one).

Well, DARWIN BOOTS!
Sooooo gooood. Using my 10.4.6 dvd currently, looks like it hung with a grey apple... gonna do verbose mode next here in a minute.
Lets see, I think that's it... I'll post what verbose does for me.. unless thats for darwin part only... hmm, we'll see

Oh yea, if I can't get it to boot properly, I'll try the vmware way.. I've got a fresh new 80gb sataII drive for the job as well


EDIT:
Ok, found my problem, probably will work for you:
Verbose mode gives ugly results.. exactally what the installed os 10.4.6 drive said from my other box when I poped it in this one...

FireWire (OHCI) TI ID 8023 PCI: Bad selfID's, issuing bus reset (retry -has a number that goes to 40)
/SourceCache/AppleFWOHCI/AppleFWOCHI-259.4.0/AppleFWOHCI.cpp 2760: ERROR: Firewire (OHCI) TI ID 8023 PCI: handle UnrecoverableErrorInt


Then, after 40'th time:

Still waiting for root device 3 times..
FireWire (OHCI) TI ID 8023 PCI: 136 bus resets in last minute.
Still waiting for....... several more times; I'm gonna fiddle with bios now, the ahci and ata thingie.. maybe pop in another sata port.

ooo, new thingie:
FireWire (OHCI) TI ID 8023 PCI: 96 bus resets in last minute.
Still waiting for root device

guess it does in 3x intervals? I wonder what happens when it hits 0....
EDIT: hmm, stalls and does 3x od waiting, doesnt go less than 96


Thought I might also pop in:
Since this is a cpp file and erroring on what looks like line 2706 (That right?) couldn't it be edited and fixed? or bypassed?


EDIT:
Yay, more info :\
Well, with AHCI for the controller the dvd rom is plugged into, comes up in verbose and hangs quite quickly:

Waiting for boot volume with UUID [bunch of numbers, too lazy to copy]
Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourcesMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>


heh, guess I'll try the 10.4.7 cd next, then vmware-ing it.


Hope this helps, hope somebody has answers to my above questions


Final Edit for the night:

Well, I tried all 3 of my SATA controllers (SiI, Jmicron, and the one the bios refers to as IDE (or raid/ahci)... couldn't get it to boot the installer with any combinations
I had to unplug my ps/2 KB, plugin a usb one (poped in my mac kb).. then it came up with
USB device thingie (i dont remember it 1:1) signaled wake (ahci [or something])
Still waiting for root device
Still waiting for root device
Still waiting for root device
Still waiting for root device
ect.......

so, i dunno what else to do other than VMWare... I'll work on this come sunday, work tomarrow, booo.

[LawRobertson]

mMiniImManN:

Please let us know what's happening with your machine. I succeded with an Athlon 3500+ machine, but now I'm failing terribly with my brand new Abit Ab9 + Conroe + nVidia 7600GT.

I tried booting from IDE DVD and there was the boot.plist failure. Then with the USB DVD and the same thing. Now I'm trying with VMWare but.... No working. My next move is a Sata-IDE convertor, an Abit Bios update and... I'll be out of ideas.

So, plz let us know if you have any success. Coz I know you will man!!

We'll conquer you Stevie!

[avenger]

same problem here .... but got it solved when i extracted it again from the rar file and burned it again at low speed.....

i burned it with clone dvd 2.9.0.1 which even solved my ebios error ....... which alcohol and nero could not

[megavolkan]

same problem here .... but got it solved when i extracted it again from the rar file and burned it again at low speed.....

i burned it with clone dvd 2.9.0.1 which even solved my ebios error ....... which alcohol and nero could not

how? You were having the /com.apple.Boot error and it's solved now?
So i have a 10.4.5 native install DVD (with patches of course), and if i remake the DVD via clone dvd way it will be solved...

wish i was at home now and give it a try
can't wait!!!
(cross the fingers )

what if i install MacOS with VMWare on a separate disk and try to boot it natively?
Does this solve the problem?
Any ideas?

[McSkywalker]

Did you try any other installation dvd's? JaS 10.4.6 with 10.4.7 update is working great here.

[megavolkan]

yes i know but unlike most of people around here i don't have a broadband connection so i cannot get those Gigabytes of files and i should stick to this 10.4.5 DVD
-sigh-

[avenger]

yes i got exactly same problem......
if you are installing on vmware try daemon tools......dont use the iso file directly....... heard that somr problems in hfs file system emulation in vmware

[mMiniImManN]

Hey guys, you snuck in a few posts on me ;P
I basically never got around to the VMWare installation; I'm stuck with the IDE->SATA DVD weird errors on boot (got past the /com....plist file error, as mentioned).
I had to reinstall windows, and am currently trying to add in my apps slowly... I was hopeing to have 4 more hdd's on the way, but they canceled it due to them not getting any in stalk for some odd reason.. I would've instantly installed on there.

All I have to do is partition my main hard drive, and test out VMWare, I'll definately try to get around to that Friday/Saturday... Or maybe while I procrastinate my homework, I can do some of the work now ;P


avenger, Interesting you got it to boot after burning slowly with clone dvd...
Please, tell us your mobo specs and your other hardware configuration (how it's all plugged in) plus bios settings and exactally what error you used to get when trying to boot, and the occurance time

Well, I'll see what I can do with VMWare, I got 3 different controllers to plug this HDD into.. ohh, gotta wipe some data off my old OS, heh.
Anyways, catcha soon


EDIT:
Ok, I've done a quick test with VMWare... I get that famous EBIOS error in VMware, I haven't looked that one up, but I do know Alcohol 120% conflicts with VMWare (I'll have to uninstall it tomorrow), and using MacDrive, I get different errors with the DVD in my drive emulated as a mac or win disc (each get to darwin, but darwin takes a dump with some EBIOS errors, hmpf).

Well, until tomorrow or saturday when I have time, Cya!

[megavolkan]

Are you guys sure that this is a ide/sata problem?
I tried to install in VMWare and have exactly the same problem
(/com.apple.Boot.plist not found)
And successfully installed my 10.4.5 DVD on an old P865 mobo system

On a SATA hdd of course

[mMiniImManN]

Well, its (as far as I know) a kernel issue with how it accesses the ide controller, in windows, you have the drivers installed already, so that would mean VMWare should work.
I dont have the IDE->Sata plugged into my DVD Burner while I'm trying VMWare, but I may try it now that I think about it (doubt it'd change anything).

I've uninstalled Alcohol, now need to get daemon tools and try again, or first yet, just leave that DVD in my drive and use it.

And for those that think the DVD is bad; I've used VMWare to test it with my Athlon XP (just verified that it booted..no errors) And i've setup osx86 on another computer with it..

Well, re-doing time


EDIT:
Vmware crashes with:
***Virtual machine kernel stack fault (hardware reset) ***
The virtual machine just suffered a stack fault in kernel mode. On a real compy, this'd amount to a reset of the CPU. Caused by incorrect config of VM, bug in OS, or problem in VMWare Software.


Yay, think I'll try the Daemon tools way next.
Looks like I gotta give up on the DTools way for this morning, other computer took a dump on network, think the drive is slowly goin bad on it, that or it's the OS; I'll have to decompress it from my other computer later :\

Oh, I forgot to add in; hopefully with the new kernel being released, it will be able to handle more ide/sata controllers properly, we'll see, maybe the debugger crew will even work on a driver set for them

[LawRobertson]

I finally managed to install MacOS X using the JAS 10.4.7 image, using VMWare.

My specs:
Abit AB9 + Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 + GF 9600GT

The setup under VMWare are quite tricky. I lanched a Windows NT machine, two cores, 512MB RAM, CD-ROM IDE 0:0 for the ISO image virtually mounted with Alcohol 120, Bridged Ethernet and here is the thing:
- A virtual hard disk, independent - persistent and allocated within my system. SCSI 0:0. And:
- A second hard disk, the real one, independent - persistent, IDE 0:1, previously partitioned with Acronis, Primary FAT32, 30GB.

First I only used the virtual hard disk but the Mac Installer never recongnized it. So I added the second one. The Mac Installer recognized it and I installed there with all the stuff. I was quite happy, of course.

However, when I booted my machine (my entire machine, not only the VMWare), the Acronis Boot Loader did'n recongnized my Win partition, and I couldn't load the Mac partition. There was a HFS+ partition error or something like that. Now I'm writing this under Windope, don't know why I finally could launch it.

I think the error is the AHCI setup under my bios. However, my Bios is too old and there is no option to chanche the IDE mode to AHCI. So I have to update my bios and find out if I can boot the Mac partition.

But at least I could install the damn thing! I'll keep you posted.

[mMiniImManN]

Awesome news LawRobertson, I'l be checking your method out tonight
Be careful with the BIOS update on this board, I didn't believe the Newegg.com reviews of it being flaky.. well, pretty much, when you update it, call up ABit support and have them walk you through it, and it, so if it messes up, it's their fault. (if you want to go through that hassle)

When I tried updating my board from right out of the package, it was reading from the floppy incredibly slow, then it just flat out started to fail
But, second board, using same floppies, it worked, hmpf.

Here's a modd'ed bios that I installed in, seems to work fine, and better than the official..
http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=115971
Oh, I just noticed, your board is not the Pro? Maybe this will not work with your board? Hmm, I don't know..

[avenger]

the hfs+ error is because you didnt keep your macos partition as primary....

AND mMiniImManN i think i got all the problems that are possible while installing mac

im still trying to solve the problems

1)/com.apple error ------solved by reburning
2)ebios error------solved by burning with dvd clone(though there are still some errors)
3)hdd not recognized while installing----- solved by installing using the vmware as stated above
4)hfs+ error-----solved by making macosx partion as primary using partition magic
5)now my current problem is hanging at waiting for root device --------still trying to solve
(heard there is some problem with nvidia 4 sata thing) but someone said that there is driver(buggy)........i will try it and let you know)

hope this helps

[mMiniImManN]

Awesome avenger, I'm still in windows mode awaiting a large.. uhh, 20 hour long queue. Then I get to reboot and maybe think about trying some of that stuff.
Funny a reburn fixed your com.apple.. since I've tried with both 10.4.6 and 4.7 dvd's. I'm more interested in trying with the newest dvd.. but the demon is down for maint at this hour.. hmm. Also, I went ahead and asked about if the new kernel fixed the issues with jmicron.. and the response was mac osx8 6 is not compatible with P695 mobo's.
[but being stubborn like I am, I'll wait till the 10.4.8 dvd arrives to my drives and give that a shot]
Currently, I'm swamped with not being able to test stuff, so will keep watching the forums when I can.

[LawRobertson]

mMiniImManN, thanks for the bios. I'll find out if it's compatible with my AB9 or not. I would love to call Abit during the update of my mobo, but I'm not in the States. I'll call them anyway. I don't want to spoil my machine.

(By the way, this mobo is not good for OSX86, but excellent for gaming and 5.1 sound. Currently listenting some Bowie DTS albums with VLC)

I'm changing from primary to logical to primary my Mac partition. Then I think I'll reformat the damn thing, don't know. I'm almost completly out of ideas... I should wait until someone share a good howto for Macos install with my spec. Hopefully very very soon!!!

[tomtefar]

So any news on the Abit AB9 with new BIOS?

[Katch]

People with PC who's CD/DVD drives don't like booting JaS release DVDs ect - try this method -

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...t=0#entry223466

works like a charm on my C100