mesut Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Hi, i got 10.4.4 patched DVD and installed it to some older lappies with no problems at all. But the newer one (PackardBell Easynote W7600-1.7ghz pentium-m sonoma platform), DVD wont boot. if i press F8 while DVD booting,i cant see my dvdrom device listing there,so i thought it maybe about SATA controller(only i see is network boot blabla).I checked the device in windows,says: IDE/_NEC-DVDRW_some_numbers still not sure if it is SATA or PATA though. Thanks for help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15280-1044-patched-dvd-wont-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesut Posted April 17, 2006 Author Share Posted April 17, 2006 i did some forum&google&wiki search, only found that it may be about bad dvd. but i used it on other boxen without any problem :\ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15280-1044-patched-dvd-wont-boot/#findComment-98087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesut Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 Anybody has any idea ? otherwise ill try my last chance,install it on vmware and dd the image to disk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15280-1044-patched-dvd-wont-boot/#findComment-98406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesut Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 Ok, that didnt work too. created 20gig partion,and 20gig virtual machine.dd the image to partition then Setdual boot and i get chain booting error. >: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15280-1044-patched-dvd-wont-boot/#findComment-98539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Have you tried booting a different cd like a windows cd to see if you get the same problem with it? If it doesn't then it's probably something to do with your bios setting or the DVD drive itself. However if it does then.... keep searching my old friend :pirate2: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15280-1044-patched-dvd-wont-boot/#findComment-98619 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesut Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 Thanks for reply, the dvdrw and/or BIOS settings are ok, all bootable media can boot,mac 10.4.4 dvd also can boot however,it stops after booting,because cant see the dvd drive. i.e. if you push F8 while booting mac installer,you will see your dvdmedia there (something like macos 10.4.4 installer dvd),the only thing i see there is boot from eth. i checked my diskdrive,its SATA,then that all thing is probably about unsupported SATA controller, i guess. I dont know what else i can try -( Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15280-1044-patched-dvd-wont-boot/#findComment-98625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 A lot of people have had issues with their DVD-drives. I did. But my issue (which seems to be shared with a lot of people) wasn't a booting one. It was that it would just about start the installation process and then ERROR - PLEASE RETRY INSTALLATION (or something like that). Problem is I tried it 6 or so times with the same error. The reason I’m telling you this is because I finally got some advice (from myzar). He (or she - dunno really ) told me to try and change DVD disks, software used to burn, DVD-drive, etc. The one that did the trick was changing the DVD-drive. Seems that’s what works for most people. Also have heard (not tested) that updating the firmware is also a possible solution to this problem but from what I understand firmware is a risky business. You have a laptop and so theirs no easy way of changing the DVD-drive but maybe you can track down an external USB DVD-drive. Or consider the firmware update. Hope you manage to sort something out. Best of luck - captain out :pirate2: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15280-1044-patched-dvd-wont-boot/#findComment-98644 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesut Posted April 19, 2006 Author Share Posted April 19, 2006 I got 10.4.6 and exactly same happened and theres no firmware update for my DVD-rom so i give up on that laptop. On the other one, it installs pretty fine,and everything seems to work,except ipw2200 wireless card,and 855G/GM/GME vga card. I find posts about it,to enable QE (err or CI not remember), downloaded the kext files and made the differences according to my device id. The module didnt loaded,so i tried to load it manually. and i get a message about version mismatch. Seems the kext was for older kernels (maybe 10.4.1 ie). So where can i find the kext files (Intel830* and IntelIntegrated*) that are supported by 10.4.6 kernel ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15280-1044-patched-dvd-wont-boot/#findComment-99576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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