rgitelman Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 after i insalled the Mac osx86 10.4.4 Install DVD i restart and i get a black screen with a cursor. what am i doing wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitr- Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Perhaps your MacOS-partition hasn't been given the boot-flag. Somehow the installation seems to miss this in the partitioning-phase, at least it did for me. So what you probably need to do is to boot up with a windows 98 cdrom or some livecd that gives you access to fdisk. In fdisk, select your MacOS-partition as bootable and that should hopefully fix your problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesog Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 Or, you partitioned your drive using a newer and EFI aware Disk Utility. If that is the case, you should try other methods of setting up your partitions like using Window's diskpart program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelation Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 after i insalled the Mac osx86 10.4.4 Install DVD i restart and i get a black screen with a cursor. what am i doing wrong? I have the same problem when I install 10.4.6 on a clean Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (that is if my memory serves me correctly), partition on my 2nd hard drive. I can boot from the 10.4.6 DVD and start the install, but once it's finished and reboots. BAM. Blank screen, blinking cursor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 Check a few posts down. For me, I fixed the problem by installing Darwin 8.01 (google for the ISO). Then during the OS X install, just have it do an erase of the partition (not all free space, just the partition). During the Darwin install make sure you choose HFS+, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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