Uphuck 10.4.9 1.3 Installed but wont get past Darwin Boot

[iTrooper]

Hey Gang,

 

I've been trying to dig around for any information regarding my problem but with very little success.

 

So here is what the problem is, I'm sure it's a very common one, but here's where it gets a bit weird.

 

Lets begin....

 

I have a Uphuck 10.4.9 1.3 Installation disk.

 

I created 2 partitions, one named Macintosh_1 and the other Macintosh_2, and make sure it was set to master boot record, and picked what drivers and kernals I felt would be suitable to run it. I selected what I felt was the right files to make it work.

 

The hard drive being used for the Mac OS install is IDE, although there is a larger SATA drive in there which doesn't get detected.

 

After the install, it worked perfectly minus sound, so I went back, selected the realtek drivers and rebooted, it worked and played sound without a problem. Only downside I needed to merge back the two partitions back into one, so the hard drive could have all the space for the Mac OS. This of course involves a reformat so the partitions can be merged back into one again.

 

So after reloading my DVD, I went back and wrote down what choices I made earlier to make sure I could get it booting up again, then did the wipe again and reinstall.

 

Theoretically, this should all work fine, but instead it now sits on the Darwin/x86 boot screen and says

 

Use UpDown Keys to select the startup volume.

 

hd(0,1) Macintosh

 

and won't go past that no matter what, I've reformatted, repartitioned, re-this, than and ther other, for some reason, I can't seem to bloody get the OS running again like I did before, it's confusing.

 

I made sure to enter all the correct choices during the install, and the master boot record. So why isn't it working this time around. I know that disk holds the potential to make the computer boot a perfect working Mac OS.

 

 

Hardware Details if anyone needs to know, it's not my computer, so I'm doing my best to identify what he has in it. I'd run CPUID on it, but he has no operating system on it right now.

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The motherboard he's using is this one http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=4COREDUAL-VSTA

GeForce 7600 GT 256mb

AMIBIOS - 4CoreDual-VSTA Bios P1.50

CPU Intel Core 2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86Ghz 64bit Supported

DDRII533 1Gig Ram at 266Mhz

 

Here's the info about the board below from the website to save some folks a trip

4COREDUAL-VSTA

 

1. LGA 775 for Intel® Core™ 2 Quad / Core™ 2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Duo / Pentium® XE / Pentium® D / Pentium® 4 / Celeron® D, supporting Quad Core Kentsfield processors

2. VIA® PT880 Ultra Chipset

 

* Supports FSB1066/800/533MHz processors and H-T Technology

* Supports Dual Channel DDRII667 (DDRII x 2 DIMM slots) and DDR400 (DDR x 2 DIMM slots)

* Untied Overclocking : During Overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed AGP/PCIE/ PCI Buses

* 1 x PCI Express Graphics slot (@ x4 mode)

* 1 x AGP 8X slot

* Hybrid Booster - Safe Overclocking Technology

* 2 x SerialATA 1.5Gb/s connectors, support RAID 0, 1, JBOD functions

* HDMI_SPDIF header, providing SPDIF audio output to HDMI VGA card, allows the system to connect HDMI Digital TV/projector/LCD devices.

* 7.1 CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec)

* Supports all features in Windows® Vista™ Premium

* HD 8CH I/O: 4 ready-to-use USB2.0 ports, HD 7.1 channel audio jacks

 

This model may not be sold worldwide. Please contact your local dealer for the availability of this model in your region.

Conroe Ready Quad Core Kentsfield FSB1066 Dual DDRII667 DDR400 HDMI Interface Ready HD 8CH I/O SATA 1.5Gb/s RAID Vista Premium Enjoy

Product Specifications

General

CPU - LGA 775 for Intel® Core™ 2 Quad* / Core™ 2 Extreme* / Core™ 2 Duo / Pentium® XE / Pentium® D / Pentium® 4 / Celeron® D, supporting Quad Core Kentsfield processors

- FSB 1066/800/533 MHz

- Supports Hyper-Threading Technology

- Supports Untied Overclocking Technology

- Supports EM64T CPU

 

*When you adopt Quad Core CPU, FSB may be reduced 5%

Chipset - Northbridge: VIA® PT880 Ultra

- Southbridge: VIA® VT8237A

Memory - Dual Channel DDR/DDRII memory technology*

- 2 x DDRII DIMM slots

- Supports DDRII667/533 non-ECC, un-buffered memory

- Max. capacity of system memory: 2GB

- 2 x DDR DIMM slots

- Supports DDR400/333/266 non-ECC, un-buffered memory

- Max. capacity of system memory: 2GB

 

*DDRII and DDR are supported separately

BIOS - 4Mb AMI BIOS

- AMI Legal BIOS

- Supports "Plug and Play"

- ACPI 1.1 Compliance Wake Up Events

- Supports jumperfree

- SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support

Audio, Video and Networking

Graphics - n/a

Audio - 7.1 CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec)

LAN - VIA® PHY VT6103

- Speed: 10/100 Ethernet

- Supports Wake-On-LAN

Expansion / Connectivity

Slots - 4 x PCI slots

- 1 x PCI Express Graphics slot (@ x4 mode)

- 1 x AGP 8X slot

Connector - 2 x Serial ATA 1.5 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD) and Hot Plug functions

- 2 x ATA133 IDE connectors (support 4 x IDE devices)

- 1 x Floppy connector

- 1 x IR header

- 1 x Game header

- 1 x HDMI_SPDIF header

- CPU/Chassis FAN connector

- 20 pin ATX power connector

- 4 pin 12V power connector

- CD in header

- Front panel audio connector

- 2 x USB 2.0 headers (support 4 USB 2.0 ports)

Rear Panel I/O HD 8CH I/O

- 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port

- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port

- 1 x Serial Port: COM1

- 1 x Parallel Port (ECP/EPP Support)

- 4 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports

- 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port

- HD Audio Jack: Side Speaker / Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone

Other Features / Miscellaneous

Hybrid Booster - CPU Frequency Stepless Control

- ASRock U-COP

- Boot Failure Guard (B.F.G.)

Support CD - Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version)

Accessories - Quick Installation Guide, Support CD, I/O Shield

- Floppy/ATA 133 cables

- 1 x SATA data cable (optional)

- 1 x SATA 1 to 1 power cable (optional)

- 1 x HDMI_SPDIF cable (optional)

Hardware Monitor - CPU Temperature Sensing

- Chassis Temperature Sensing

- CPU Fan Tachometer

- Chassis Fan Tachometer

- CPU Quiet Fan

- Voltage Monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, Vcore

Form Factor - ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 9.6-in, 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm

OS - Microsoft® Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista™ / Vista™ 64-bit compliant

Certifications - FCC, CE, WHQL

[kytzu]

Try to partition the disk with another tool (ex hiren's boot cd) and then use disk utility from installation dvd only to erase the partition and format as HFSJournaled.

[iTrooper]

Well I've taken a look at the partition in DiskUtil (when the Uphack boot starts up), and it was already formatted as HFSJournaled (or Mac OS Extended [Journaled] as it calls it) and set to MBR.

 

What's strange was it worked the first time and now it doesn't, which makes little sense.

 

So how will reformatting it again as HFSJournaled and MBR sort the problem out? Cuz I've formatted that drive several times now and still can't get it to start up again like it did before.