ShmoeTheHo Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 This is killin me.... Sometimes OS X boots, sometimes it doesn't. Installed off the pre-patched 10.4.4/5 DVD, de-selected 10.4.5 on the install. When it doesn't work on boot, it hangs at: Waiting for boot volume with UUID 629AF74D-33B6-3951-BB93-6AE12728B82C Waiting on <dict ID="0"<key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict> Even an explanation of this would help.. is my hard drive not being detected (it's a PATA drive, master hooked up to a slave dvd-rw)? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I can't seem to find anything googling the error or searching here on the forums, and tried the wiki as well. Has anyone had this problem and recovered? Much thanks in advance.. looking forward to some informed responses! -- My Hardware Intel D945GNT Pentium D 805 1gb DDR2 160gb Seagate PATA HD NEC DVD+-RW-DL Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13702-intermittent-boot-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 is my hard drive not being detected (it's a PATA drive, master hooked up to a slave dvd-rw)? I don't think that is the case, since it gets to the darwin bootloader in the first place... Sorry I can't help, just thought I'd try and rule off possible explanations that well.... could explain it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13702-intermittent-boot-problem/#findComment-87245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
declan Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 My 2 cents. Normally if theirs a hardware conflict it would boot or not, intermittent problems could point to bad hardware. When it does boot, how stable is OS X, have you had any problems, restarts, apps quitting alot etc?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13702-intermittent-boot-problem/#findComment-87247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 Hmmm.... I've another idea... Perhaps you could try installing onto a different HDD, and see whether you experience problems with that drive. If not, well, replace the 160 GB Seagate you have Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13702-intermittent-boot-problem/#findComment-87483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShmoeTheHo Posted April 2, 2006 Author Share Posted April 2, 2006 My 2 cents.Normally if theirs a hardware conflict it would boot or not, intermittent problems could point to bad hardware. When it does boot, how stable is OS X, have you had any problems, restarts, apps quitting alot etc?? Declan, when it boots, i've kept it up for a week running completely stable... Perhaps this relates, but using the Pentium D 805, in the beginning of the verbose boot, I don't seem to see the SSE3 flag... should it be there? I suppose I'll try another hard drive, the rest of my drives are all SATA tho.. Hmmm.... I've another idea... Perhaps you could try installing onto a different HDD, and see whether you experience problems with that drive. If not, well, replace the 160 GB Seagate you have Going to try that I suppose, just when I thought i'd had os x configured the way i liked it.. of course I gotta whack it all! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13702-intermittent-boot-problem/#findComment-87634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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