PatGelose Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 I got a copy of Jas 10.4.8 for my acer aspire 4720Z and booted it up, erased my hard drive with Disk Utility, then I partitioned the hard drive half and half, Mac OSX installed perfectly and the operating system ran well for me, so then I booted my Acer recovery (windows install) disk and the acer eRecovery said it finished successfully. NOW HERE IS THE KICKER... When I boot my computer up to the hard drive all I get is a black screen with a blinking underscore (one of these _ ) So what I want to know is why isn't it giving me the operating system option when i boot up? Do I have to set a primary boot partition or something and how would I go about doing that? Thanks for your help. :-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/127293-boot-problem-after-installation-can-you-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyp Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 Look here This post is for Leopard, but should work with Tiger. The problem is your partition is not set/flagged as active. Kenny Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/127293-boot-problem-after-installation-can-you-help/#findComment-900020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatGelose Posted September 21, 2008 Author Share Posted September 21, 2008 Look hereThis post is for Leopard, but should work with Tiger. The problem is your partition is not set/flagged as active. Kenny I did the commands that you mentioned in the other post (and I did "flag 2" also because I have a windows partition so I wanted to make both partitions active.) And still when i boot to my hard drive, I'm getting a black screen with a blinking underscore. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/127293-boot-problem-after-installation-can-you-help/#findComment-900499 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatGelose Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share Posted September 22, 2008 I think I may have found something that might help but can anyone clarify what it is exactly I need to do in newbie language? There is a post about my problem here with an explanation. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...rt=#entry275773 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/127293-boot-problem-after-installation-can-you-help/#findComment-900613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyp Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 The patch may work....looks good BTW, when you named your osx partition....you did not put a space in it did you? The name OSX will work where OX S will not. Also, you cannot have more than one active partition on a drive at the same time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/127293-boot-problem-after-installation-can-you-help/#findComment-901283 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatGelose Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share Posted September 22, 2008 See, the thing is. I have no idea what to do with that patch. How do I go about applying it? I hope it works but I'm not sure how to use a patch. Anyone got any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/127293-boot-problem-after-installation-can-you-help/#findComment-901794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyp Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 Not sure knowing what to do with the patch matters, I just checked the links, and they are a no go. What are your computer specks........maybe we can recommend another distro that might work better for you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/127293-boot-problem-after-installation-can-you-help/#findComment-902169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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