acute_angina Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Hey everybody... I used to have a working OS X 10.4.8 install on my box (P4, foxconn motherboard, onboard intel GMA950 graphics) OS X was on a partition on the Master Drive on a SATA connection (actually an IDE drive with a converter) . Only trouble was, it wouldn't boot - Was using Vista boot menu, calling Chain0 - would start Darwin and then that was about it. It would happily boot from the hard drive if the DVD was in, and left to timeout on the boot options. The partition it was on was underneath (behind?) an extended partition, so I wondered if this was what was causing my boot problems, so shuffled things around a bit and put it on the first primary partition on the same disk... Now it starts to boot when I select Mac OS X from the vista boot menu... I can interrupt it with F8 and have tried pretty much all the switches, but to no avail. In verbose -v mode it whizzes through apparently loading lots of things (the disk activity light is flashing away merrily) and then stops saying "Problem encountered starting the computer. Pausing for five seconds". It then pops in to a different screen resolution, fails to load a couple of things and then falls into the 'Still Waiting for Root Device' hole. Now - As I see it, it has definately loaded stuff off the root device to get as far as it has, so why has it decided it's not there anymore? Remember - as a different partition it used to work (even if it required a nudge from the DVD to boot). Anybody else seen this? Maybe I've got a bad block on the disk? Anybody got any other ideas? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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