iDerf2006 Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Aloha. I'm having a very weird problem - I had OS X all fine and dany, 100% on this machine. Then i replaced the graphics card and hard drive. Installed it on the new hard drive - uhohz. I get a HFS+ Partition Error when booting. BUT, when I keep the 10.4.3 Install DVD in - it boots into my OS X install off of the hard drive fine. What's up with this? It's got 3 partitions - 100GB for XP, 75GB for Vista, and 24 (i thought i remembered a bug about having too much hd in the partition you install it to, so it woudnt install right). Anybody have any help, thanks. These are my specs: Intel Pentium 4 Celeron 2.40GHz 512MB RAM 250GB IDE ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (CI/QE Enabled) Any help would be... helpful. :-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11822-can-only-boot-from-dvd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Make sure you have only primary partitions, not logical. Also make sure that the active partition is that one with OS X, and the others are none/hide. My OSx86 is installed on a 38GB partition, so I doubt it's 'bug' related. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11822-can-only-boot-from-dvd/#findComment-74245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Tighe Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 I have the same booting problem with 10.4.4 installed from DVD. Initially I had the "Waiting for root device" problem, but now I have converted my NTFS extended partition to a primary, I get "HFS+ Partition Error" when I try to boot of the active partition. It is possible for me to boot using the install DVD with the "rd=disk0s3 -v -s -x" kernel options. So I would assume the partition is ok... Although I have head that sometimes Disk Utility on the DVD does not create bootable paritions?!?! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11822-can-only-boot-from-dvd/#findComment-75305 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDerf2006 Posted March 14, 2006 Author Share Posted March 14, 2006 Yep, i have all of the above. I don't understand what's wrong. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11822-can-only-boot-from-dvd/#findComment-75535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrotUser Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 had the same prob with 10.4.4 AND 10.4.5 try removing the install disk right after installation (when your system reboots) when your bios is set to boot from cd/dvd drive darwin gets loaded from there and everything is f***ed up 8[ might be that darwin has to setup itself?!? this worked for me with 10.4.4 AND 10.4.5 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11822-can-only-boot-from-dvd/#findComment-75694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDerf2006 Posted March 15, 2006 Author Share Posted March 15, 2006 Actually, I've been doing just that - taking out the Install DVD after it's done. I never used to do that, when it worked. I think, when I try again, I'll KEEP IT IN.... Thanks for the reply. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11822-can-only-boot-from-dvd/#findComment-76371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Elf Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Try to install Windows again. WinXP is used to brutally take the control of your MBR, setting itself as unique OS booting. When you reinstalled Windows you can setup a boot manager. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11822-can-only-boot-from-dvd/#findComment-81181 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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