kluikens Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 I downloaded the Mac OS X 10.4.4 Install DVD that seemed to already be patched, considering the installation completed without a hitch. [it was installed to the Samsung below.] When it finished installing and proceeded to restart, the rotating circle came on and went on forever. I rebooted the machine, setting it to boot from the hard drive I just installed it to and the bios got through the normal system check and ended hanging up with a blinking underscore. I rebooted once again, back to the disk, verified with Disk Utility that the drive is fine and doesn't need repair, pulled up Startup Disk, selected the OS X folder on the hard drive and attempted to reboot. The circle has been rotating for more than an hour and a half now. Any ideas? I've searched the forum but couldn't find anything and nothing in the Dual Boot section led to anything. Maybe reinstall, although I don't know what good that'd do. Would EFI have anything to do with it? Thanks! My system. ----------------------------- AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 1 GB Corsair Asus A8N-SLI Premium eVGA Nvidia 6600 GT 20 GB Samsung (OS X installed on this drive) 120 GB Western Digital (Windows XP and Vista on here) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Careless Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 i have pretty much the exact same computer. processor is relatively the same (you should be overclocking it) the motherboard is quite similar. the ram is pretty much the same if it's the value version. and the video card is the same GPU. i have the rebooting problem too. theres no way around it right now. when you see the rotating circle, wait 30 seconds and press the restart button. it's a problem with AMD's. if you boot into the os using the -v command before entering OSx, when you do a reboot you will be taken to a black screen and you can see the RT2650 call that it's trying to make over and over. this is the thing that is preventing it from restarting. if i knew what it was, i would fix it. but sadly i dont i just deal with it for now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-63113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Any ideas? I've searched the forum but couldn't find anything and nothing in the Dual Boot section led to anything. Maybe reinstall, although I don't know what good that'd do. Would EFI have anything to do with it? Have you tried booting with the option "-v" to see what's going on? If it splurts out lots of text, then goes onto a blank screen, I'm also having the same problem as you... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-63142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdavy2002 Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 have the same problem is vmware, I could not do a ntive install so tried in vmware, it installed fine but then, it does not reboot. Any ideas. I have a Toshiba satelliet A75 s226 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-63304 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ampTK Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 do what SABR says. If you don't tell us what's going on, nobody can help you. So boot with -V Also try repairing permissions on the HD with the DVD Read nay instructions that came with the DVD My recommendation is not to use the already patched DVDs, because then you don't know exactly what patches are in place, and if you have a trouble is hard to know what's going on Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-63331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluikens Posted February 25, 2006 Author Share Posted February 25, 2006 i booted with the -v option and rebooted the system through Mac. the end screen is this: "continuing jnl: close: flushing the buffer cache (start 0x3f4000 end 0x3f8200) done Mach Reboot []" (Those two bracket are a solid white cursor that's exactly in that shape) Does this help at all? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-63392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koskun Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 I had the exact same problem on a Dell Inspiron 1100. I found a patch for the DVD ISO, called "MacOSX_10.4.4DVD.ppf" and the program ppf-o-matic3-full-dist. What this did for me was put the AMD patch in, and fixed the disk utility. It seems that the problems were with the disk utility on the copy of 10.4.4 that is out there. When it sets up the hard drive it seems to set it up for EFI, hence the blinking underscore, because the PC doesn't know what to look for. The patch worked like a charm for me. I applied it, burned a new copy and installed (custom, no extra languages, only one printer driver, and no AMD patch). Upon reboot it immediatly loaded OSX, went through the beginer information, and was in OSX. The only problems I am having now is OSX did not find my DVD/CD ROM drive, and did not find the onboard nic. - Anyone have any suggestions for this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-63432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluikens Posted February 26, 2006 Author Share Posted February 26, 2006 where can i find that patch? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-63643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluikens Posted February 26, 2006 Author Share Posted February 26, 2006 Does anyone know where this patch is? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-64158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluikens Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 Thanks to Koskun, i'm hopefully on my way to getting OS X 10.4.4 to work for an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+. The patch that he mentioned above, titled: "MacOSX_10.4.4DVD.ppf", is part of a torrent titled "MacOSX 10.4.4DVD Final ppf with 10.4.5 update" hosted by Demonoid. I couldn't find it on Google or BitTorrent, therefore meaning it has no public trackers. It's a 209.43 MB file and it'll be a few hours before it's done downloading. I'll post the results when I'm finished. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-64296 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluikens Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 It didn't work. The patch installed the AMD enabler and the 10.4.5 update (with patches) but I still came to the same result. I'm thinking this is an EFI problem. How would I circumvent or get around it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-64370 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluikens Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 Do I need some sort of emulator? VMWare or Darwin? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-64473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guerrillamonsoon Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 Have you tried booting with the option "-v" to see what's going on? If it splurts out lots of text, then goes onto a blank screen, I'm also having the same problem as you... Hey SABR, have you figured out the solution to that problem? As you can probably guess its happening to me as well. I've got a Toshiba P25-S609 (3GHz P4 HT, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB HD, etc. etc.). If its any help to you, 10.4.1 worked with no problems for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-66113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdavy2002 Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 I have a toshiba sat A75-s226 and have the same problem. I could not do any native install also, only in vmware I found the pacthed mentioned above, but could not download it from demoniod since i do not have an account there and they are not accepting membership. Could someone please PM the torrent to me. Thanks in advance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-66265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTRecords Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 anyone had anyproblems with it comming to a blank screen (black screen) ????? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-66359 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluikens Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 I've got 10.4.5 working on my system!!! AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 1 GB Corsair Asus A8N-SLI Premium eVGA Nvidia 6600 GT 20 GB Samsung (OS X installed on this drive) 120 GB Western Digital (Windows XP and Vista on here) Check out the pic. Also, check out my new post to see how I did it! http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=10686 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-66932 Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeshond Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 I've had the same, but the people at oid had the same and they said to leave the install-DVD in. I did and MacOS booted up. Maybe it helps for you too. If anybody has a way not needing the install-DVD to boot, please let me now. Greetz. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10097-1044-wont-boot/#findComment-67209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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