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My Feelings:

I feel like Im at the Vegas Roulette wheel. C'mon...give me victory! :-]

 

My Install:

I did an Install of Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1}

The Install went well, finally! (No errors, or dropouts)

I got a special education on disc burning and disc integrity. I used NERO DISCSPEED for verification.

The only problem is when I reboot, I get "THE BLINKING CURSOR OF DEATH." :-[

One special note. I have to unhook my (2) 1TB Seagate SATA drives so my 3rd drive (80 GB IDE Maxtor) , which Im installing to, comes up as a selection in my BIOS for boot devices. The Maxtor works fine and shows as being formatted in HFSJ when I run Win XP Pro on my 1TB Seagate drive. I can actually read the MAC files in Windows. Im not sure if thats because I have MACDrive7 installed on my system.

My System:

Intel D865GBFLK (socket 478) motherboard

Intel P4 2.8C Ghz (Northwood) CPU, Hyperthreading, (MMX, SSE, SSE2)

Intel 82865G Graphics Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) with Accelerated Hub Architecture bus

Intel 82801EB I/O Controller Hub (ICH5)

HP DVD Writer 1040d (multi-format Read-Writer) <--- I USE THIS to BURN

Maxtor 6L080J4, 80GB, 2MB cache, IDE Hard Drive <--- I BURNED to THIS DRIVE

Seagate ST31000340AS, 1TB, SATA1, 32MB cache <--- I HAVE WIN XP PRO on this DRIVE

Seagate ST31000340AS, 1TB, SATA1, 32MB cache

AOPEN CD-RW CRW5224

 

My Burn:

HP DVD Writer 1040d (multi-format Read-Writer)

Nero 8 Ultra, Disk Image

Verbatim DVD+R DL, 8.5GB, 2.4x

<I tried Sony DVD-R single layer disc's, but I could'nt get good burns, I think the Hi-Speed burning was causing problems>

Maxtor 6L080J4, 80GB, 2MB cache, IDE Hard Drive

 

Things I Tried

Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1}

-I tried checking and unchecking all the selections during the install;

INTEL, AMD, with PRINTER DRIVERS, without PRINT DRIVERS ... no change.

Someone with a similar system had succes below.

Since 3 weeks I have the 10.4.8 running on a P4 Northwood (Intel 865PE Chipset, Nvidia 6200 GPU) running stable using the Jas 10.4.8 SSE2 SSE3 AMD Intel iso

 

Kalyway_10.5.2_DVD_Intel_Amd

- I tried Kalyway 10.5.2 Intel Amd and that didnt even allow me to do an install.

I did it because someone had success with a similar system below. I couldnt find the Brazilmac version listed below and went with a generic version.

 

D865GLC mobo, Brazilmac Patched DVD with Kalyway 10.5.2 Updater & Brazilmac Post-Patch

 

 

 

If any has any suggestions Im all ears. Im spinning my wheels and going nowhere fast.

 

Thanks in Advance.

 

Fried_Brain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I used MacDrive7 to look for the BootX file and its there ...

 

/System/Library/CoreServices/BootX

I used --> Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1]

 

I saw ramblings on the net that the disk erase utility might have some bugs in PPF1.

 

Im going to try --> Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2]

 

I let everyone know it flys.

 

Fried_Brain

 

WoooooooooooooooooHooooooooooooooooo

 

IT WooooooooooooooooooorKs! :)

 

I only burnt the midnight oil trying to get this baby going!

 

Internet Works right of the bat. Amazing! NO AUDIO. It recognized that I have AC97 integrated audio but theres NO SOUND yet! I have a MIDI card installed in a PCI slot which it didnt recognize either. I have my work cut for me.

 

WHat I Did: (for the next bloke)

 

* Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2]

 

* boot: - x

 

* Erased Hard drive with "Disk Utility" during install

 

* For Install Packages I selected:

> Intel

> X11

> Print Drivers

 

Now I have to figure out how to jump between XP and OSX since I have them natively installed on different drives. I have to unplug my 2 SATA drives so that my IDE drive with OSX is recognized in the BIOS as a selection. Im thinking of getting some kind of bootloader that I can run off my DVD player. I also have to learn how to virtually mount drives since burning is becoming a pain the rump.

 

Its like exploring a whole new world. Pretty cool.

 

FRIED_BRAIN

 

 

 

 

 

 

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