knifeyspoony Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 Hi, I've followed the prep instructions from one of the guides on this site's Wiki. I'm able to boot into the OS X installer natively and select a language. But when it comes time to select a partition, no entries show up in the dialog box. I'm using the new 10.4.5 prepatched DVD. My HDD is SATA configured in BIOS as IDE. I have a VIA chipset, so the SATA controller should be compatible, according to the Technical FAQ. Thanks, ks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 Sounds very much like last night's installation problem: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=13330 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yossarian Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 You may need to have your harddrive preformatted to Mac OS X Journaled (HFS+ I think) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miliuco Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 There is other posts of people with VIA chipset unable to install Tiger onto a SATA disk, some of them have been able to recognize the SATA disk, after installation, without any other task but other people had to load the AppleVIAATA.kext extension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 You may need to have your harddrive preformatted to Mac OS X Journaled (HFS+ I think) Journaling is not necessary and hurts performance, but HFS+ (aka Mac OS Extended) should be used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knifeyspoony Posted March 29, 2006 Author Share Posted March 29, 2006 Sounds very much like last night's installation problem: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=13330 Hmm. I ran Disk Utility, and it can't see my hard drive either. You may need to have your harddrive preformatted to Mac OS X Journaled (HFS+ I think) Do you mean my entire drive, or just the applicable partition? Wouldn't the installer at least be able to see my hard drive at this point, and identify it as empty or formatted with some unknown file system? Also, is there any way to preformat my drive in HFS+ without having OS X installed already? There is other posts of people with VIA chipset unable to install Tiger onto a SATA disk, some of them have been able to recognize the SATA disk, after installation, without any other task but other people had to load the AppleVIAATA.kext extension. Maybe I'll pick up an IDE HDD and see if that works. (VMWare doesn't seem to work with this prepatched image.) Thanks, everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lkr Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 your partition HAS to be formatted to HFS+ for it to be noticed by the installer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knifeyspoony Posted March 29, 2006 Author Share Posted March 29, 2006 your partition HAS to be formatted to HFS+ for it to be noticed by the installer. All the guides I've read have me label the partition as HFS+ with diskpart, not format it. Or is that what is meant by formatting? Thanks, ks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 All the guides I've read have me label the partition as HFS+ with diskpart, not format it. Or is that what is meant by formatting? Label? Whoever wrote the guide has some English language problems. You want to format your target partition to Mac OS Extended (HFS+). Formatting effectively erases whatever was there before by writting something empty index table that is use to keep track of where files are on the partition: http://www.sharpened.net/glossary/definition.php?format Hmm. I ran Disk Utility, and it can't see my hard drive either. I sounds like you are having the Via chipset problem Do you mean my entire drive, or just the applicable partition? Just your target partition. Also, is there any way to preformat my drive in HFS+ without having OS X installed already?That is what you are trying do, but otherwise you would need a machine running OS X to do it. Maybe I'll pick up an IDE HDD and see if that works. Good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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