WebGuyNJ Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 First, I apologize, but I am a noob. I have used the Maxxuss patched 10.4.4 DVD booted and completely run the install to completion. I created a single 20GB partition and this install seemed to run without a flaw. At the end of the install the machine restarted but now I am left with only a grey underscore in the upper left hand corner of the screen. Can I recover from this? How do I or can I figure out why the system won't boot? I have an Athlon 64 3800+ with SSE2 and PAE support, I have 2GB of ram and allocated 384 MB to the VMWare instance for the OSX installation. If I am not giving enough information, please let me know what information might help solve this. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackyyy Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 How did you manage booting the installation under VMware ? Mine hangs at the apple logo + loading circle screen just after having pressed a key to launch it ... I'm using the 'Mac OS X.4.4 INSTALL DVD' (Initially coming from demo)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebGuyNJ Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 How did you manage booting the installation under VMware ? Mine hangs at the apple logo + loading circle screen just after having pressed a key to launch it ... I'm using the 'Mac OS X.4.4 INSTALL DVD' (Initially coming from demo)... I starter the installation form the install prompt (F8) then ran it with a -V (verbose mode) installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawg97 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Hello. I`m having the same problem.I managed to install it with using daemon tools and vmware. but as you there is a little "line" in the top left corner. and black screen.. Havve been looking all over to find users with the same problem but no luck finding a solution. Have you found out what causes the problem or do any have any suggestions? Got an amd xp 4000+ a8n sli-deluxe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackyyy Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Have you tried booting on the DVD and not touching anything just after the first reboot ? It should work. To boot without the DVD, try setting the HFS(+) partition to active. I had to create an AF partition and set it to active under windows (Use Diskpart or Partition Magic), and then install Mac OS X over it (Disk Utility -> Erase). Anyway that's how I manage to get it to boot (with VMware AND natively), the only problem is I can't access the HFS partition under windows (Macoepener/Macdisk/Macdrive)...I'd like to modify files as I'm still having booting issues (check my topic) Ho and by the way it seems this whole booting issue comes from the 10.4.4 Disk Utility not doing his work propely, one should try using the 10.4.3 DU (according to what I've read)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooner Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I'm having the same problem, won't boot from hard disk. Won't let me boot the disk from the dvd either but I'm no expert Anyone work out what to do yet? Thanks in advance tooner UPDATE: I don't really get how to create an AF partition and set it active under windows with vmware. Tried booting from a win98 bootdisk and making the partition active but that did not work. Still trying stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooner Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 Tried using fdisk from console but having problems doing even that, must be a fix out there somewhere for this problem? A different ISO perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joske Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 Well, i've the same problem. Anyone knows how to fix it. Is it the ISO that's corrupt? Or are there people who don't have this problem? I used 10.4.4 install dvd from demo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebGuyNJ Posted March 15, 2006 Author Share Posted March 15, 2006 Well, i've the same problem. Anyone knows how to fix it. Is it the ISO that's corrupt? Or are there people who don't have this problem? I used 10.4.4 install dvd from demo... I finally got mine working I used the deamon ware virtual CD driver and a newer. 10.4.5 patched DVD to perform the installation. All is well!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joske Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 oh boy, another 4 gigs to download can you please give me the exact name of your iso so I do not download a wrong one again ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebGuyNJ Posted March 16, 2006 Author Share Posted March 16, 2006 MacOSX_10.4.4DVD patched 10.4.5.iso.iso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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