seanraf Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 I patched the DVD and it booted up successfully. However, Disk Utility misreads my hard drive and when I try to create a standard Mac OS Extended partition, it messes up my partition table. Is there any way around this, or do I have to use another seperate hard drive for OS X? My Hardware Set Up Is: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Motherboard: MSI RD480 Neo2 Graphics Card: ATI Radeon All In Wonder X1800XL RAM: 1 GB (2x 512mb) DVD Burner: 1x Internal NEC 1x External Firewire NEC Hard Drive: 250 Gb Western Digital ATA100 Other: Floppy Drive and Internal USB 2.0 52-in-1 Card Reader Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11815-patched-dvd-install-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanraf Posted March 14, 2006 Author Share Posted March 14, 2006 Does anyone have anyting to say about this? I am using the pre-patched DVD that showed up a week ago. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11815-patched-dvd-install-problem/#findComment-75564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanraf Posted March 14, 2006 Author Share Posted March 14, 2006 Ok, so I installed on a 20 GB hard drive I had lying around. Everything went smoothly. However, when I try to boot off of that device, it goes to black. No Darwin boot screen or anything. Is anyone else having this problem? I am using the Myzar pre-patched 10.4.4/5 DVD that showed op on the bay about a week ago. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11815-patched-dvd-install-problem/#findComment-75579 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 Might be an idea to try creating the partition before installing, using one of the various utilities which can do this. There's plenty of information on how to do this. Others have reported that Disk Utility can sometimes screw up on 10.4.4/5 installations and there's even a comment in the torrent about it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11815-patched-dvd-install-problem/#findComment-75652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanraf Posted March 15, 2006 Author Share Posted March 15, 2006 Would installing with a patched 10.4.3 disk and using that Disk Utility work? Then I can just use the 10.4.4/5 install disk to update the volume once I am done, correct? If that wouldn't work, what partitioning software would work. I own a copy of Partition Magic and I have Linux on my machine already and that has a good console partitioning utility. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11815-patched-dvd-install-problem/#findComment-75700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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