Wont Boot past Apple Logo Screen

[JonBOY]

Hi all, although I'm a proficient Mac OS X user I'm new to the Intel PC setup.

 

I recently used a my existing Mac OS X setup to prepare an OSX86 drive (according to this manaul http://osx86.theplaceforitall.com/howto/). Everything during the setup process on my Mac worked pefectly (the OSX86 image was the correct size and installed to my new drive ok).

 

however when I put the drive into my PC (running only this single drive connected as master) I get past the darwin screen ok but on the next screen my setup encounters a problem. The Apple logo as well as the little swirling progress meter on the white screen are both displayed, however after a few minutes on this screen a circle with a line through it is eventually displayed and there's no progress beyond this point. I've tried starting in safe mode using the -x option but that didn't help.

 

Does anybody have any ideas? if so I'd really appreiciate your help. Thanks.

[Archaous]

I have the same problem, help would be appreciated.

[JonBOY]

I just took the drive that I installed OSX86 on and tried it in another PC and it booted up perfectly fine (just quietly, how cool is OSX86! The Mac OS runs beautifully, only thing I noticed was that software update did not work for Mac OS updates, it found itunes and iPod updates, but it's a 10.4.1 version of tiger and it didn't find any of the version updates.

 

It appears then that its a hardware issue. The PC that the install worked on has an Intel motherboard with onboard video card, 1 GB DDR RAM. My PC has a gigabyte board with PCI-express video card and 1 GB DDR dual channel ram.

 

Archaous, what's your PC setup? maybe we can find a common hardware component thats the issue.

[JonBOY]

I did a bit more investigating and started OS X using the '-v' option in Darwin.

 

I followed the progress of the loading and everything goes fine until just after the USB and firewire loading. It loads these item ok but then it gives the message 'still waiting for root device'.

 

Anybody know what teh root device is its waiting for or how I can fix this?

 

Also, I read in the tutorial that I followed that the deadmoo image uses a kernal in which the SSE3 capabilities have been ignored. I would like to restore this to the original kernal, the only computer that I can get to successfully load my OSX drive is not mine, if I load OS X on this machine, then perform the kernal update, will this modify my friends computer in any way? I suspect that it wont and that it just overwites the kernal on my OSX drive with the kernal I want, but I just want to make sure I'm not about to do something thats going to leave lingering effects on my friends PC after I take out my OSX drive.

 

Thanks.

[mappyg]

ive got pretty much the same problem.

during installation it halts at a "no" picture. like the no smoking symbol, but without the smoking, because apple doesnt want lung cancer. you know, a circle with a diagonal line through it

 

this happened both on a clean 10.4.4 that i patched myself and a prepatched 10.4.3.

 

im on a clawhammer a64 3000+ with a SiS760 mboard.

 

what does this symbol mean?

and how do i bypass whatever makes it do that?

[JonBOY]

fixed it!

 

from what I've been reading there's a few different ways people are beating this error, this is what worked for me.

 

My OSX86 install is on an IDE HDD (just an old one I had lying around, upgrade to SATA soon). Now, my particular motherboard has three IDE input sockets. Because my normal drive with XP is SATA, I had my DVD-RAMs plugged into my primary IDE socket. When it came time to plug in my ATA OSX drive I simply plugged it into the second the IDE socket.....>>>>>still waiting for root device

 

I unplugged all the IDE peripherals and connected only my ATA OSX drive set to master into the PRIMARY IDE socket...>>>succes! OSX booted perfectly.

 

I've since been experimenting with what I can have plugged in where to get things to work.

 

Basically;

primary IDE socket; ATA OSX drive as master plus DVD-RAM set as SLAVE

 

(i haven't tried connecting my second DVD-ROM to secondary IDE socket yet to see if that still works.

 

Now I just need to figure out how to get my PCI-express 256 MB nVIDIA GeForce 6600 video card and PCI modem to work!

 

Also, I cant get iTunes and other assorted apps to run, Safari is ok though. I'm using the deadmoo image with the SSE3 features patched out, but i tried to restore the original mach_kernel and had no success. Terminal tells me that there was no difference between the two. I downloaded the original kernel from a link in the guide I posted in my original post, as well as followed the instructions. Any ideas?