eXactOpposite Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 I tried both 10.4.4 hotiso, and 10.4.6 goatsecx. (i was glad to see that the latter recognized my sata drive in the disk utility even tho i wasn't trying to install to it). With both, they install but when the installation is done it says it's gonna reboot but the reboot never occurs. eventually i shut the power off to the computer and when i turn it back on it won't boot. after the computer POSTs i get nothing. no logo screen, nothing at all. the post info stays on the screen with a cursor blinking at the bottom. The computer is one that i built myself. it's an Opteron 144 (socket 939), with 1gig of ram on the nforce4 chipset. I'm installing it onto a 40 gig ide drive. there are 2 more drives in the computer, a 160 gig sata2 for linux and a 250 gig ide for general storage. the 40 gig drive i'm installing on was my windows drive b4 i started this. i don't get any sort of errors at all during installation, but when it's done it won't restart. When i shut the computer off and power it back up if i start form the installation disk and go to the startup options the hard drive doesn't show up as an option. if i start the installation process and go to utilities and the (i forget what it's called) tool to select what to use for startup i can select the hard drive, but then it needs to restart and as u may have guessed, the restart doesn't happen. as far as booting from the drive, i used acronis disk director to make sure that the partition is active but it didn't change anything. i even formated the drive with the disk tool from the installation disk, quit the installation and booted with disk director to make sure the partition was active before installing. if any of you have any ideas what the problem may be here I'd appreciate any info you have. i tried to be specific and i did some searches and reading here before i posted. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19308-no-restart-after-install-and-unable-to-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
free30 Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 I don't know why for sure, but I have installed a few times and had this problem some of the time. Again I don't know why, but what I did to avoid it was use Macdrive, and assine the partition a drive letter under windows. This allowed me to see if I had installed OS x. Mostly I had. So I edit the Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist. Then I could use the chain0 and boot.ini method to boot into OS through Windows. Where did you download the OSx DVD from? I have used my ISO in a few torrents to get my ratio up. Finding that sometimes for no resone it would check my DVD at 99%, and I have allowed it to be changed! So there might be a bad version out there with a bad chain0 on or something, which I have now picked up. This might account for why it has not always happen to me. Hope this helps Free30 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19308-no-restart-after-install-and-unable-to-boot/#findComment-126542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eXactOpposite Posted June 8, 2006 Author Share Posted June 8, 2006 I don't know why for sure, but I have installed a few times and had this problem some of the time.Again I don't know why, but what I did to avoid it was use Macdrive, and assine the partition a drive letter under windows. This allowed me to see if I had installed OS x. Mostly I had. So I edit the Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist. Then I could use the chain0 and boot.ini method to boot into OS through Windows. Where did you download the OSx DVD from? I have used my ISO in a few torrents to get my ratio up. Finding that sometimes for no resone it would check my DVD at 99%, and I have allowed it to be changed! So there might be a bad version out there with a bad chain0 on or something, which I have now picked up. This might account for why it has not always happen to me. Hope this helps Free30 really i forget which sites i found these on as i searched several places int he process. since i tried 2 different releases from 2 differt groups (10.4.4hotiso and 10.4.6 goatsecx) i don't imagine it was a matter of a bad iso, but i guess anything is possible. as for what u are talking about with going into windows and making the changes, the problem is that i deleted windows in order to load osx on the drive windows had been on. .i have an external that i could try to laod windows onto (never tried to install windows on a USB drive) if that will make things at all easier. what i'm trying to do here is dual boot osx and linux (fedora) and get rid of windows all together for now since there is another machine here running windows. if it's a must i can move some files around and put a partition on one of my other drives to make this work. i guess i could partition the 40 gig for that matter. if u don't mind could u give the details on what i need to do here. i've been building/fixing comptuers for a long time but i haven't tried antyhing quite like this before. also my knowedge of osx is pretty limited. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19308-no-restart-after-install-and-unable-to-boot/#findComment-126558 Share on other sites More sharing options...
free30 Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Again not quite sure, this time what your asking. Windows will need to be on a primary active partition to boot, then Macdrive will let you read HFS+ formated partition, if the partition is assined a drive letter in windows. Um, then by editing the file above to incluide: <key>Quiet Boot</key> <string>No</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string></string> between the two <dict>. This will let you choise which drive to boot from in Darwin. Add the chain0 file from your DVD to "c:\" and edit boot.ini in incluide the line at the end:C:\Chain0="Mac OS X86". And you can select OS from the Windows boot options. But this will leave you with windows on you system. But at least you might be able to see or fix the problem. I approach problems from Windows but that me. I know for Dual boot OS needs to be on an id=af partition or in Acronis type=0afh. But what you need to know is whats the last thing OS dose before it reboots and why it's not doing it on yours. I guess it writes boot info to hard disk. And are you installing the right patchs for your system on the Jas10.4.6 DVD at least two, but thats a given. Free30 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19308-no-restart-after-install-and-unable-to-boot/#findComment-126819 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocodile Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Just adding my 2 cents..... I have a Foxconn 661 FX-7 MI-S mainboard wit a SIS chipset, i first installed Mac OSX_10.4.4_DVD_PATCHED_intel_amd_cheroky.rar, and everything went fine, the system booted, the only thing that didn't want to work was my SMC 2802W wireless card, so I decided to try another version, this was 10.4.6 from Goatsec, installing also went ok, but after reboot the system didn't want to start. No error messages at all. Now I'm downloading 10.4.6 from Jas, hope that will work better. I'll keep you updated. BTW has anybody a good working driver for the Prism GT already ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19308-no-restart-after-install-and-unable-to-boot/#findComment-209929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Just adding my 2 cents..... BTW has anybody a good working driver for the Prism GT already ? Realize that you are answering a 4-month old posting. http://osx.totosoft.de/GTDriver.dmg Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19308-no-restart-after-install-and-unable-to-boot/#findComment-209949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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