takeawaydave Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Firstly thanks for all Mashugly et al. and all others that post have created this amazing resource : ) I have run a sucessful install on to a SATA HD using a patched 10.4.4 restore CD. The 250 gB SATA HD has the following partitions: Dell Hardware Diag rubbish FAT32 Windows XP MCE 2005 NTFS MacOS X 10.4.4 HFS+ EDIT: All partitions are primary Following the install the machine rebooted straight back into Windows (i.e. Windows partition was still set active) and I installed Acronis OS selector. This found: Unknown 1 (which is Dell rubbish) Unknown 2 (OS X) Windows XP MCE Windows boots fine using Acronis however OS X goes to splash screen and then a "no entry sign appears". I'm not sure what the error message is since Acronis try and start OS X in verbose mode. I reckon it must be a boot loader problem (what else could it be !?) I'd like to keep using Acronis since it cost a lot and is very nice to use : ) What's the way to fix this? Would I get the same problem with the 10.4.4/10.4.5 DVD (should be done soon)? Thanks people. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11619-1044-install-does-not-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeawaydave Posted March 10, 2006 Author Share Posted March 10, 2006 A little more information.... I have read the following http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=9553&hl=) which makes use of the following comands: bless -device /dev/diskXsY -startupfile /usr/standalone/i386/boot bless -folder /Volumes/macosx-10.4.4 -bootBlockFile /usr/standalone/i386/boot1h -setBoot I think I'm on the right track here. However I'm not sure where I should issue these commands. If I try terminal through the installer I get: -bash: sudo: command not found I think that the file system mounted read only during this type of term session anyway. I think people have been running these commands some other - not exactly sure how though. Any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11619-1044-install-does-not-boot/#findComment-72891 Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeawaydave Posted March 10, 2006 Author Share Posted March 10, 2006 Hmmm seems fixed now. Not sure what I did though....ran the startup disk utility and selected the installation however this time it booted OK. I'd done this before however so I am puzzled. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11619-1044-install-does-not-boot/#findComment-72904 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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