Shadowhawk109 Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Hey all! First time OSx86 user here. Unfortunatly, that translates to me not knowing a dang thing about, well...basically anything. After much trying, I finally got the install DVD (JaS 10.4.8 w/ SSE2 SSE3 AMD PPF1) to load past the -v -x window. I don't remember how. I formatted my 10GB VMWare disk image for use w/ OS X using the Disk Utility in the GUI that finally loaded. (Supposedly there's some problem with Disk Utility - I dunno if that could be part of my problem or what). So now the virtual drive is HFS+. Yay. Install & Reboot'd. Froze at Grey Apple Logo. Well, I had been following a VMWare tutorial up to this point, so when a error message that explained why it popped up was mentioned in the tutorial, I took that advice, and changed my VMWare (emulation style? I'm not sure what its called) from FreeBSD to Windows NT. That got me quicker emulation & at least a spinning wheel underneath the Grey Apple Logo. But THEN... The spinny wheel thing froze. (Yeah, great computer lingo there...) I don't know why. I tried booting into safe mode *with -v -x tags* and it seems to be hanging around 'No AirPort Driver Found', and specifically right after 'localhost mDNSResponder: Adding browse domain local'. n00b translation: It's looking for an airport card that I don't have. And a network connection I don't want - I have 56k, so its not like network would be that important, other than linking my iBook Dual USB @ 600Mhz to OSx86's on-machine DVD drive. Is this right? What should I do? Also, there's a line of code a few segments back that concerns me: 'Titan: Testing for NVidia card' 'Titan: Could not make a display match...' Could this also be affecting my failure to successfully boot OSx86? Like I said, I'm a complete n00b to this type of thing, so I have very basic Linux knowledge, no Mac Terminal knowledge, and hardly any Command Prompt knowledge. Computer stats are as follows: Abit SG-80 Socket 775 Motherboard Intel Celeron D @ 3.2Ghz (w/SSE2, don't remember about SSE3) Processor nVidia GeForce 5200 AGP Graphics Card 1024MB PC3200 RAM 80GB Hard Drive (w/ Windows XP Pro SP2 on it) VMWare 5.5.3 JaS 10.4.8 SSE2 SSE3 AMD PPF1 OSx86 install disk. If worse comes to worst, could someone walk me through a fresh install? Thanks for your time, Shadowhawk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonM Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 This happened to me too. Try changing scsi0.present = "TRUE" to scsi0.present = "FALSE" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowhawk109 Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 That was one of the first things I did. Sorry - forgot all about that. But it hasn't made any differance. I also added 'paevm = "TRUE"' to the end of the config file, but I don't see what good it does... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowhawk109 Posted April 26, 2007 Author Share Posted April 26, 2007 working on it some more. I've tried everything I can think of. Still can't get past OS X looking for network on boot. Is there some kind of Darwin flag I can use on boot? Cause I have no freakin idea how to edit kext files... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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