How to install darwin boot loader?

[max_rome]

Hello, somebody can help me?

I tried to make a native installation of mac os x 10.4.3, but when I boot from installation cd I have the error com.apple.boot.plist not found.

Maybe because my optical drive isn't compatible.

So I installed mac os x on a wmware virtual machine using phisical drive (the partition where I tried to make native installation).

 

After the first phase of macosx installation, I reboot the virtual machine, but appear the message "OS not found". Then I tried to reboot the virtual machine with the installation cdrom, and typing "rd=disk0s2" at darwin boot loader, the system boot. And I was able to continue the second phase of installation.

 

I think that I can use the installation inside vmware to make a native installation (the virtual machine write on a phisical drive).

 

Then the darwin boot loader from cdrom doesn't works correctly in my system, I think that if I install the darwin boot loader in the partition I can boot the system using the option "rd=disk0s2"

 

Somebody can explain me how to install the darwin boot loader in my partition?

 

This procedure can be useful for all people who have the boot.plist error

[jutanus]

I agree. My setup works nicely but I have to boot from the installation DVD in order to boot in my setup (installed on a hard drive). Without the boot DVD, even with the partition set as active, it wont work.

[omass]

Anyone can explain me why there are emty tabs after I write "p" on terminal?