Burninator Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Hi guys! im new to the whole OSX86. and i've been reading here and there and trying to get as much info as i can. Downloaded a couple of versions of 10.4.4 booable DVD and installed them on my P4 3ghz. Im trying to do a clean install of the OSx86, but the problem that im having is that after intsalling it (takes forever), at the end of the installation when it asks me to restart, it just hangs there. I restart manually and thinking that the OS install is done, i take out the dvd...but it doesnt boot to anything. If i put the dvd back in and boot from it, it restarts the OS install. I've been reading about the patches for 10.4.4 and older versions and the up coming ones, and not really sure if i need to apply them. Can please some one show me the light on what im doing wrong or the step that im missing. Thank you very much and thx to max for his great work. The Burninator Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10094-1044-bootable-dvd-wont-completely-finish/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
obo Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Try leaving the DVD in the drive, and NOT pressing a key when it's counting down. Hopefully it'll find your HDD installation after that and boot from it - that works for me. I'm also stuck in the same position of not having native HDD booting. Mine stops at a blank screen with the cursor blinking in the top left, without showing the Darwin menu (even if I press F8). I got a bit further by copying chain0 to the boot sector of my /dev/disk0s2, which then shows the Darwin boot menu with my OS volume listed, though selecting it still fails to boot it. I've now resorted to putting W2K on the same HDD so I can use the BOOT.INI method, which seems to be the setup most people are using on here. I had a go with LILO but couldn't get that to work either. What I need is a foolproof way to set up the MBR+boot sector from scratch, to ensure they've got the right things on them. The correct partition is already active, so it should be working already. I tried blessing it with -setBoot, but that gives some weird error about IODeviceTree:/options (or something like that) not being found. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10094-1044-bootable-dvd-wont-completely-finish/#findComment-64609 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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