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Nobody975
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hey i am having a problem. I can't even get past the gray mac start screen. After waiting about a minute, i get a random circle with a cross through the center, but it still looks like it is loading. Here is a picture of what happens, sorry for the {censored} quality i took it quickly on my cell phone

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I have an AMD ANTHLON 3000+ I just bought the chip and motherboard set yesterday and installed it last night to try and make it work thismorning, sadly, no luck yet. I am in the process of burning another DVD of the OSX, but this time, the AMD TEST1 iso image. Does anybody know what is wrong with my other iso image, or if this AMD TEST1 image will wokr better?

 

THANKS :(

 

I'm having a similar problem. I actually saw that same screen a few times. Most of the time it just shows a pop up that says I need to restart my computer, or press the power button for a few seconds until it turns off...Any ideas on what to do? Sorry, I'm new to this whole thing so it might be something simple but I have no idea....

StanleyS
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Got almost Everything to Work

 

Windows 2003 + Mac OS Jas 10.4.6

- Intel Pentium D 820 (2.8Ghz SSE3)

- nVidia 6800XT (MacVidia Drivers)

- 2GB DDR2 RAM

- 74gb WD Raptor (Win2k3)

- 74gb WD Raptor (Mac OS X)

- 120GB Seagate (files)

- Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic - No Sound! (no drivers :D)

pheobee
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hey i am having a problem. I can't even get past the gray mac start screen. After waiting about a minute, i get a random circle with a cross through the center, but it still looks like it is loading. Here is a picture of what happens, sorry for the {censored} quality i took it quickly on my cell phone

120206_00221.jpg

I have an AMD ANTHLON 3000+ I just bought the chip and motherboard set yesterday and installed it last night to try and make it work thismorning, sadly, no luck yet. I am in the process of burning another DVD of the OSX, but this time, the AMD TEST1 iso image. Does anybody know what is wrong with my other iso image, or if this AMD TEST1 image will wokr better?

 

THANKS :wacko:

 

Did you select the kernel path according to your CPU in installation process?

Just this step:"So click on "Customize" at the bottom and come to this screen."

I have met the situation you mentioned above without "customize".

Rammjet
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Did you select the kernel path according to your CPU in installation process?

Just this step:"So click on "Customize" at the bottom and come to this screen."

I have met the situation you mentioned above without "customize".

I believe they are still trying to boot the DVD and getting the Stop symbol which means "waiting for root device".

 

They need to put their hard drive and DVD drive on same cable and jumper (not cable select) the hard drive as master and the DVD drive as slave. And if that doesn't work, they need to use VMWare to install from DVD to their hard drive for native boot. (I have now typed a message like this for about 500 times, it seems).

sriforum
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I'm trying to make a dual boot of Vista + OSX.

I installed both Vista and AOSS.

Shutdown and booted to AOSS.

 

I created a new partition for OSX (39.65 GB) as Primary FAT32. Now my Acronis Disk Director Suite Shows as follows

Partition Flags Capacity FreeSp Type

NTFS(C:) Pri,Act. 48.83 GB 36.3 GB NTFS --> Vista

OSX(D:) Pri 39.65 GB 39.64 GB FAT32(LBA) --> Meant for OSX

Unallocated 97.82 GB Unallocated

 

Now, as explained in the guide, I tried to install OSX and got as far as Step 5 where I have to choose the partition in which I have to install OSX. But unfortunately I dont see any partitions under my HDD. It shows only 186.3 (i.e. my entire HDD). So I didn't install OSX because I thought might loose Vista.

 

Can someone give me some light on how to make these partitions visible while installing OSX so that I can install OSX in the partition that I created.

 

Thanks in advance for all your help. I've been reading this forum for past 3 months to install OSX in my new assembled machine (completed yesterday and installed Vista RC1). If you need any more information, I'll post it.

 

Update: Clicked Images -> CRC-32 image checksum... in Step 5 of this guide and got the error message "Unable to checksum "disk1" - Input/output error. This may be one of the reason why the partitions are not showing I guess. Any ideas???

Nobody975
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I believe they are still trying to boot the DVD and getting the Stop symbol which means "waiting for root device".

 

They need to put their hard drive and DVD drive on same cable and jumper (not cable select) the hard drive as master and the DVD drive as slave. And if that doesn't work, they need to use VMWare to install from DVD to their hard drive for native boot. (I have now typed a message like this for about 500 times, it seems).

 

Hey I have a laptop, and I don't know how to do the cable thing with laptops. As far as VMWare, I've read about it, but don't know how to do it...lol...I'l read around and search here for info...Thanks for the tip!

mestam
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followed the instructions as of page 1 of the post and worked flawlessly for me.

 

dual boot windows xp / mac osx 10.4.6

from JaS DVD 10.4 with combo update 10.4.6 included.

 

my laptop

HP Pavilion dv8323ea

nVidia GeForce GO 7600 256RAM

SATA Seagate 120Gb

Intel Centrino Duo 1.6Ghz

 

will try though to get rid of Acronis in the future... as I'll get rid of XP too..

soon will try a triple boot with pcbsd..

 

mestam

Rammjet
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When you select OSX in Windows, it goes and starts OSX. The OSX/Darwin bootloader (which you can't see) is defaulting to Windows not OSX, so it sends you back. The Darwin bootloader defaults to the active partition which is the Windows partition.

 

My recommendation is to use the OSX/Darwin bootloader. To do that, make the OSX partition active. Boot OSX and set the Timeout parameter in boot.plist. Then go remove the chain0 command from boot.ini in Windows.

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...st&p=243116

jchaike
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They need to put their hard drive and DVD drive on same cable and jumper (not cable select) the hard drive as master and the DVD drive as slave. And if that doesn't work, they need to use VMWare to install from DVD to their hard drive for native boot. (I have now typed a message like this for about 500 times, it seems).

 

this worked great, i finally got passed the apple logo, but now i am stuck on selecting the language. My keyboard will not work, along with my mouse. I have a regular non USB/non Wireless keyboard and mouse. I have tried a USB mouse, and a non USB optical mouse, however, none of them work, i am just stuck on selecting my language screen. Thanks for the help

JOLST-R
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when i try to install the osx i get the apple with the white background...but it stays like that for 10 minutes and then becomes a light blue screen. do you know why this problem occurs?

 

yeah some computers have that problem. if it is an intel based laptop, it could be the computer hanging on detecting PCMCIA cards or buses. instead of booting from the CD using the normal method (i.e. just pressing enter), try the "-v" command instead. this will bring up a whole lot of information on the screen and it will show you where the install is hanging. it could be anything, but its hanging because of incompatible hardware.

cmdshft
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I tried installing the Mac OS X 10.4 Myz ISO that you listed in the topic post.

 

I followed all of the instructions exactly as they were laid out.

 

I successfully got the DVD to load, and start the installation process.

 

However, during the installation, after about 1/3 of the way done, the installation process stops, and tells me to retry the installation. I have done this 3 times now, all giving the same results. I even spent the day acquiring a different ISO (this one came with more support options than the Myz ISO) and it still failed at the same time during the installation.

 

What is wrong, or am I doing anything wrong myself?

o Mike o
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Success, minor, common problems - working through them.

 

Setup:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester, Running @ 2.4

DFI nF4 SLI-D

2x 512mb Corsair RAM

1x WD 80GB IDE Hard Drive (bought just for this)

1x 250GB SATA Drive

1x NEC DVD Burner

Creative Sound Card (but using onboard audio, AC97)

 

Alright, first few attempts was with 10.4.7, the JAS distro. Worked fine, but I believe I killed/corrupted my SATA drive in the process, or at least royally messed up the partition tables (anyone know how to fix this?). Its basically just a piece of metal now, possibly can be used only for storage; I don't care, I can get another. I bought the IDE hard drive just for this project.

 

I'm now using 10.4.8, which I think is pretty awesome. Only minor problems and I haven't put much time into fixing them. The USB problem, I have to unplug/plugin my mouse/keyboard every boot. And then, another problem, if OS X freezes for anyone reason and I have to do like hard reboot, I get stuck at bios boot up and only reseating the memory cures this. We're working on this.

 

In the end, the problems aside, I'm really happy with the outcome, I have all the programs I used in XP properly working on here. :)

 

On a side note, I'm in mourning over about 4 years of data being lost on my laptop. Two nights ago, I got a BSOD and turned it off. Let it sit all night and then turned it back on. No operating system can be found. I've been told I probably got the click of death. It doesn't recognize a hard drive and its basically dead. Anyone have some random ideas on this? :P

 

Thanks guys. Felt I should report that it worked for the most part with my stuff.

 

Mike

cmdshft
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Oh, I forgot to lay out my specs.

 

Asus P4V8X-MX Motherboard

Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz 800Mhz FSB HyperThread

nVidia GeForce FX 5500 128MB

2x 512GB RAM (1 GB)

1x 80GB Western Digital IDE 7200RPM

1x 80GB Seagate Barracuda IDE 7200RPM

1x Antec DVD-ROM

1x SONY DVD-+R/RW, CD-+R/RW, Dual Layer Burner

AC97 Onboard Audio

 

Any help with my scenario would be fantastic.

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Rammjet
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However, during the installation, after about 1/3 of the way done, the installation process stops,

Try burning the DVD at the slowest speed possible. Try using a different brand of media or type of media (dvd-r, dvd+r, dvd-rw, dvd+rw)

 

In the Installer, go to the Window menu and select the Installer Log. Read it to see why it stopped when it did.

 

Verify that your DVD drive has the latest firmware

 

Clean the lense in the DVD drive.

cmdshft
cmdshft
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Burned at slowest speed (1x).

 

Log did not say why it stopped. Just read out a bunch of time numbers for accessing the files.

 

DVD burner is brand new and fully updated.

 

Dunno how to clean the lense...

cmdshft
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I believe they are still trying to boot the DVD and getting the Stop symbol which means "waiting for root device".

 

They need to put their hard drive and DVD drive on same cable and jumper (not cable select) the hard drive as master and the DVD drive as slave. And if that doesn't work, they need to use VMWare to install from DVD to their hard drive for native boot. (I have now typed a message like this for about 500 times, it seems).

 

I just saw this post (dunno how I missed it before) and was wondering if it was possible if you could either write out what I need to do (I'm not familiar with VMware at all) or point me to somewhere where I can read how to do this in more detail. I have a feeling that this might work for me, but like I said, I am a noobie when it comes to VMware.. (I don't even know what version of VMware to use.. >.<)

vashpr
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the dual boot installation have to be a fresh win xp ? also more than 1 HD can cause problems doin dual boot? using main HD for just mac works perfect but i cant get it to dual boot, after selecting the hd to erase it gives me an error that says "could not write on partition map" or something similar. HD of 80gb (10 gb for mac os x fat 32 primary partition)

NeODuG
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The install worked fine but at the end where it says reboot i hit reboot i got a black loading icon under the box and left for ages and it didnt do anything so i hit restart on my box and then when it loaded it says "HFS+ partition error" and wont let me get to my os selector so i can get back to xp.

 

EDIT: Done the whole instal again, at the same point how long should this take?

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souljah119
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I've read through a lot of this thread and haven't really seen anyone else having this problem.

This may seem stupid.

But, after burning the JaS ISO that I downloaded to DVD, the DVD is unreadable and shows up as a blank disc when I insert it back into the drive.

I tried to boot with this cd, but it doesn't boot, just goes on loading windows as if nothing is in the drive.

 

Yet, I have used this same ISO with a virtual drive and succesfully installed OSX in VMWare.

I'm a little confused.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

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