10.4.5 Patched DVD installed, but cannot boot it

[BKR2879]

Hello!

 

I managed to get the patched 10.4.4 with the 10.4.5 update on it installed to a primary partition on my second IDE drive just fine after using the Drive Utilities to format it as a Journaled drive.

 

The problem comes in trying to boot it now.

 

If I use the boot selector from the bios on my ASUS A8N-SLI motherboard, the drive light comes on and it runs for about 1 minute, then stops and never goes any further. There are no messages given at all on the screen.

 

If I use the install DVD to boot up and use rd=disk1, it boots into a gray screen telling me I need to reboot the machine. No matter how many times I boot from the DVD and try that it always says I need to reboot the machine.

 

I've read through some of the other posts here that were about booting issues, but didn't see anything other than the rd=disk1 trick that might apply to me.

 

Also, I have a friend who is a Mac Tech, and he brought over a copy of MacDrive to try out, and after installing it, it didnt even see the Mac partition from Windows at all. Yet if I go back into the installer from the DVD it sees it just fine. Does this mean something??? He has no Windows knowledge at all, so between us we were both lost.

 

The system I'm using is the following.....

 

AMD FX-60

1.5 Gig of ram

ASUS A8N-ALI

7800 GTX Video

NEC 16X DVD+R Drive

 

Windows in on the first SATA drive, which the installer doesn't see at all.

 

The first IDE drive is a Samsung 250 GB storage drive.

 

The second IDE drive is a WD 120 GB one I've used for various other things, and seemed a good place to put OSX for a trial.

 

Would one of the boot managers I've seen mentioned on these boards fix things up?

 

I thought it odd that using the bios boot menu that it would start the drive running then do nothing, not even any sort of error message at all.

 

Thanks in advance for any/all help or suggesions you can offer. I'd love to see how well this runs on an FX-60 processor if I can.