Well, I've tried everything I can think of and no matter what, my screen looks like this after a normal boot...

Anyone?

Patrick

I tried the safe mode and still nothing. How about that link/load error?

Hey - I tried VMware install and a native install on my system. But both ways fail. When I try to boot to the drive I'm installing it on - all I get is a screen that says GRUB: and I cant enter anything from there.

Any ideas? Yes my machine supports sse2/sse3, and no, this is not a dual boot, but installation to another hard drive.

EDIT: More specs for you to work with to get this out of your mind.

Pentium D805 2.66ghz (dualcore)
2gb DDR667
nvidia 7600gt
Asus P5ND2-SLI
and I'm installing OSX on a older 20 gig drive I have.

First of all, i wanna thank you for this great guide for installing OS X!

But i have one little problem: I have installed OS X on my computer, but when i reboot after installing, i just get a light-blue screen with the cursor. Any idea?

Hey, thanks for the tutorial, but when I boot from (JAS 10.4.8) iso I get the Grey apple logo with the circular thinking animation, but it hangs there for hours. Doesn't proceed to any wizard, no harddrive or dvd drive activity. Any ideas??

My specs:

Intel Pentium Core 2 duo e6700
2 GB DDR2 Ram
Gigabyte Motherboard
WD Raptor 75gb HDD
LiteON SATA DVD Drive
HP IDE DVD Drive
Nvidia 7800GTX Gfx card

I forgot the USB keyboard, so i bought one today. Still the same problem. Ideas?
Installed OS X with JaS 10.4.7 ISO
My computer:
ASRock P4i65G mainboard
Intel Pentium 4 (SSE2)
512 mb PC2700 DDR RAM
One 250 GB Maxtor HD partitioned into one 20 gb and one 230 gb
One 200 GB Maxtor HD
Microsoft USB Mouse
Some random cheap USB keyboard
nVIDIA gForce FX something 256 mb Graphics card

yeah, i know it's a little unspecific, but it's what i got for now...

Thanks

Do you use VMWare or dvd-cd?
I had the same problem with VMWare, but i just configured a little, and it worked perfectly. Tho i'm stuck on the re-boot after installation, with the light blue screen and black cursor

Hi,
I tried to install from the DVD, but it booted with no keyboard or mouse (Microsoft ... USB - one port), so I tried to install from VmWare. I configured the VM to have direct access to the drive where I want to install Mac OS X ( SATA drive "/dev/sdb" in linux ). I boot, but the installer does not see any drive except the DVD drive. I know that I should better get a PATA drive to install on, but I only have one IDE port on my motherboard and I already have 2 250GB sata drives wich get quite hot, so squeezing another one in there would get them even hotter ( I had problems in XP due to too hot drives ). I really want to install OS X on my sata drive. Please help!

Here are my specs:
CPU: AMD Sempron 3000+ ( socket AM2 )
MB: Asus M2N-E ( nForce 570 Ultra chipset )
RAM: 1 GB DDR2-667
VIDEO: Nvidia GF 7600
HDD: 2 * Seagate 250 GB sata 2
DVD: Asus dvd-rw

Vlad
P.S.: Sorry if my English is bad

Offtopic

@st0pes:
Great CPU
The only great one from Intel until Conroe, in fact.
It's very overclockable, why not try this :
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores/
Good luck

When I try with 10.4.6 Jas DVD it does not recognize my mouse and keyboard.
In 10.4.8 the mouse and keyboard work, but still no sata drives recognized.

First thanx
i've a pc with this config
cpu intel 3.4hz
motherboard Gigabyte 915p LGA
vga ATI Readon x300se
ddr2 1go
HDD sata2 250go
teh problem is that i can't arrive to instal mac osx 86 10.4.7
i'd followed all the instructions but when the installation was completed the pc didn't restart and i force it to restart i see only a white screen.
my question : ATI readon x300se is not compatible with mac ?

plz who has this graphics card and he's sure that it is compatible with mac osx , help me

thanx for your help

Hi, (I'm italian so sorry for my english) this is my first approach to Mac os. I have the following installation problem:
I have an install cd, I put it in and I followed the instructions, so I've formatted my hard drive, I've choose the hfs+ file system, and other things required me...
It installs Darwin...this without graphics, only white letter on a black background; then at the end appears to me a prompt (I think of Darwin) like a DOS os. Even if I reboot there's only this prompt and no sign of graphics or of any kind of apple...
I don't konw what to do, Have I a wrong installation cd?

@lordnoone: Great, I wish I would be able to even get there .
From what I heard, Mac OS X uses the X windows system. From my previous experiences with Linux I know that it uses a console different from 1. You could try pressing ctrl + alt + (a number from 2 to 9). if that doesn't work press ctrl + alt + 1 and type "startx" in the prompt. If that doesn't work type "ls /etc/X11/" and report back.

Good luck!

@lordnoone: An install CD? I think you've got Darwin, not Mac OS. Mac OS 10.4.x doesn't fit in one CD. Another thing, you must download a Jas, Myzar, or tubgirl version of MacOS. See another topic for detail. Google is a good try.

Hi there

What could be a problem during OS X starts and hangs on before mounting filesystems? With WMware everything boots okay (I mounted whole harddrive to VMware).
Tried all combinations of parameters for Darwin, switched drives - nothing helps.
Last line with "-v" usually: "launchd: ioctl(SIOCAIFADDR ipv6): File exists" (the same line present when starting with VMware, but it boots okay after that).

Thanks

Hi I am going to be trying this guide also, i have made a previous 15 gb partition thats FAT32 primary (will switch to active when i get it to work) so do i have to use those steps to do it? and ive got a osx86 dvd so will i have to mount it using alcohol? or will it just work when its in the drive?

Ok so i get it to work in VMware i install it and it tells me too reboot. so i click reboot and all that happens is a bunch of white text on a black screen (still in vmware) start to roll down the window in vmware. and then it says waiting for ifc or ifs or something like that. So i dont know what to do after waiting so i close the virtual machine. When i click reboot is it supposed to reboot my whole laptop or just the mac in the vmware? im guessing my laptop. so wasted a couple hours.



btw when i get into darwin bootloader in the begining am i supposed to be in vmware still?

sup
awesome guild
but i also run into a bit of a problem
the dvd i burn seem to run fine and i see the gray apple screen afterward i see the pretty aqua screen with the colorful crusor spinning
but that's pretty much the end of that
i'm not too sure how long i'm suppose to wait but it definitely have been more than an hr since i went off to take a shower while loading

i'm using the macosx_10.4.3_8f1111_for_dtk_userdvd.dmg file
my spec:
Name Intel Pentium 4 540
Codename Prescott
Specification Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Package Socket 775 LGA (platform ID = 4h)
Core Speed 2800.0 MHz (14.0 x 200.0 MHz)
Rated Bus speed 800.0 MHz
Stock frequency 3200 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3
L1 Data cache 16 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Trace cache 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 cache 1024 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Northbridge Intel i915P/i915G rev. 00
Southbridge Intel 82801FB (ICH6) rev. 03
Graphic Interface PCI-Express
PCI-E Link Width x16
PCI-E Max Link Width x16
Memory Type DDR2
Memory Size 1024 MBytes
Memory Frequency 266.7 MHz (3:4)
DMI Baseboard
vendor Intel Corporation
model D915PBL

so i'm not too sure what's the problem.
maybe i should get 10.4.6 or something
but it'll be cool if i don't have to wait days to have it download and i can just work on from what i have

Hey guys!
Just got going with the step-by-step (thanks Xeijin!!!) heere and everything seemed to be workking like a charm. Hd formatting, booting from the JaS 10.4.8 dvd, begginning installation and stuff... but then I got a message saying that there was a problem during instalation and I should try again. Checked the installation log and there is a:

BomFileError 22: Invalid argument - /Volumes/"myhd"//Aplications/Image Capture.app/Contents/Resources/English.lprog/ImageCaptureHelp/pgs/ic1004.html
Install failed: some files for Essentials may not have been written correctly


Tried a coupple tiimes more and always got the same problem.

I'm trying on a
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Toledo
ASUS A8N-SLi Deluxe Mobo
ASUS EN7800GTX videocard
2GB Kingston HyperX DDR400
WD 160GB SATA Drive

I also have a WD Raptor 74GB (win XP x64), WD 80GB (Fedora Core 6), WD 160GB (Vista Ultimate), WD 250GB (files) which are all phisically disconnected during installation.
I know my system supports SSE2 and SSE3.

Any help would be appreciated!

ok i installed from 10.4.4 and the install went great, but i have trouble and questions now...at 1st i used 10.4.1 and used the guide on i-hacked website, which is at http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/202/42/

well now after installing 10.4.4 my sound does work but my nic doesnt when they both work on the 10.4.1 (Marklar-Tiger.iso w/ Generic_OSx86_Install_DVD_Patcher_Release1.rar)
also after restart i cant boot bak into 10.4.4 osx i just get a black screen with a white cursor.. now do i need to patch this 10.4.4 iso or any other iso's with this Generic_OSx86_Install_DVD_Patcher_Release1.rar or was this just for 10.4.1's Marklar-Tiger.iso??? btw iam using a sse2 cpu....

Hi Experts,

Hi Enjoyed following this guide and learned a little on the way too... But i still have problems though.
I wanna run the "JaS Mac OS X 10.4.8" on my pc via VMware and i don't know what i'm doing wrong?

I have a Dell Latitude D810 running Windows XP with the newest version of VMware

I Couldn't follow the instruction 100% "Preparing the Hard Drive for OS X" as i'm using a USB External Hard drive
I'm running out of diskspace on my laptop so i use my external hard drive to mount the ISO file on one partition where i got a bunch of other stuff and then on a second partition on the external hard drive i made a 16 GB paritition for MAC installation.

So when i start up my Virtual Machine it boots up and i see the Blue Setup screen. I choose language and when i click next after 10 seconds i get this error:
Because of a problem, installing Mac OS X Could not be completed
The error log is huge and doesn't really make much sense

I have followed all the steps i don't get why its not working... please help

I followed the vmware instructions to the letter.

I have an sse2 capable cpu, currently running ubuntu's feisty fawn release.

I am not able to get the installer of the JaS 10.8.4 iso to get past the "preparing installation" section of the graphical set up without getting a crash report screen coming up with a very non-descript error.

If I boot straight from CD, I am able to get past this screen and to the disk utility. This comes up However, the disk utility isn't working properly and won't create the necessary volume for me to begin the installation.

I assume the problems with the disk utility will be fixed when I download the 10.8.4 JaS torrent which has defiant's patch added to it, but my question is will the VMWare problem where it wont even get to the disk utility step be fixed?

Thank you very much for this very informitive guide.

Hi guys


I have the same problem like Daniel Graybill... "Because of a problem, installing Mac OS X Could not be completed"

I'm using the last JaS release with PPF1 and PPF2 , Daemon tools (tried alcohol and burned to DVD), VMware Workstation . Tried for guest os linux, windows, FreeBSD and so on; used virtual and phisical disk, set partition active... still the same.
Now I'm trying to format the HDD with hfs(at least the console is working). diskutil lists the mounted devices, but everything crashes the moment I try to edit partitions.

I also have read some tutorials (like 40 ) and searched google a lot... (already have 2 successful installation on other hardware, but this one is realy tricky)

Heeeeeeelp

10x in advance



Hp Pavilllion dv4275ea

• CPU : Intel Pentium M (1.73 GHz)
• RAM : 1 GB DDR2
• HDD : 100 GB Ultra ATA 100 4200
• VGA : ATI Mobility Radeon X700 128MB
• Chipset : i915GM

For some reason this kind of stuff never works for me
Here is my problem:

I followed the instructions (very well written I must say) using VMware and it installed after a long time, the virtual machine then rebooted (not my computer) and it loaded fine. Then I went to boot from the harddrive that it installed on (I have two hds 80gb with xp and 200gb that i was planning to triple boot; mac, linux, vista) and the it didn't work. After booting I get a screen that tells me that it could not find a floppy drive and that I should press F1 to continue (this always happens and it is no big deal and not the problem) but my keyboard didn't work. I could not press F1. I tried rebooting, plugging the keyboard into different slots, but nothing. This happened when I tried to install directly from the disk too, but that time it showed the Apple logo, then my screen went blank and said press a key or move the mouse to continue.

I then booted from xp because I thought that I could just install drivers for it through the VMware, but the hd I installed it on is not there anymore!!! I found it using partitonmagic 8, but the file format was titled "other" and it said the hd was in "bad" condition.

Can someone help please!!!
Tell me if you need system specs, etc.

hi guys do you think mac would work would this machine:
CPU intel P4 2.8Ghz
512 RAM
Phoenix V 6.00 PG Motherboard
Video: NVDIA Ge Force MX4000 128 MB
HDD: IDE 80Gigs

Hey guys, wanted to let you all know that this walk thru was the best i have ever had, aside from just a few boot config problems i was able to make it work with little hand holding, infact it was so easy, Mac OS X felt like it was built for it..lol..here is my system
AMD 64bit 2ghtz
1gig of DDR ram, only.lol
128meg nvida buit-in video stealing 128megs from the system
40g maxtor with WinXP pro SP2 as the main OS
40g something-or-other that i installed Mac on
Logitec wireless keyboard with PS2 wireless mouse, (yea, i know right)
its crazy but everything works great! it flys! faster than windows, (well duh right)
im goign to try and get a video of the install of leopard on it tonight.hehe...and how fast the boot switching is..its CRAZY! thanks for all the walk thru questions.

EDIT: also built in either net works great, EVERYTHING works....USB ports, all other hard drives and cd and DVD roms..infact i might just become a swticher and just have an afair wtih my Windows OS...lol

HI! First of all thanks for the guide.

Now to my problem. I did everything just like you said, but when I try to boot from the DVD I get this: System config file '/com.apple.Boot.plist' not found. I have a good DVD from Jas. My computer specifications are:
-Asus EN8600GTS silent/HTDP 265MB PCle
-Intel dual core E6750
-2G of ddr2 ram
-Asus P5KC motherboard
-hard disk SATA II 500G

Please help!

I got that too with a couple diffrent ISO's but i found one that worked...so it could be the version of DVD you got...does it give you an option to do an f8? if it does, use f8 and then boot with -f this will by pass that so you can boot into the cd install...

Hey man i have a question:

-The installation was flawless i was able to install without a problem but after restarting vmware and choosing to boot from the disk the screen just stays dark and nothing happens. I was wondering if your guide makes it so that you can boot to os x when starting the actual computer or if its just booting from vmware in which case something is wrong. thanks for the help

Look closely at the end of the guide, it explains how to add the dual boot option the the XP boot.ini file. Ive done it an it works great...if the install went well, then just change the boot.ini accordingly and ad the chain0 file to the C:\ drive.

Hello Daniel,

I see your post is quite old (year and a half ago). I am wondering if you are still running the Dell D810 with the MAC OS 10.4.8, better yet, were you able to get it running? I installed the JaS 10.4.6 and through various readings was able to get my integrated nic, sound, video, battery indicator all working.

I am in the beginning stages and wonder if you were able to get the updates to work. Should I run the Apple update? It seems that I tried that earlier and it crashed my pc.

Regards,

ROCKET1054
Dell Lattitude D810
1.8 GHz SSE2
1.25 GB Ram
165 GB HDD

i have a acer aspire 3002 laptop. (amd sempron 2800+, 756 mb ram, 40 gb hdd). tried installing max os x ( iAtkos_2.0i_BS_Release , Kalyway_10.5.2_DVD_Intel_Amd, VMware OS X 10.4.7) however none seems to have worked. i am trying through vmware as i dont have access toa dvd burner.

with the iAktos image, i get this erroe when i go to verbose mode.
kernel version:
darwin kernel version 9..10: sat nov 17 02:56:34 sct 207' made by ToH"xnu-128.0.2~1/build/obj/release_i386

the comp remains stuck there and nothing more seems to be happening. can u pls help. thanks