chandlerhill Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 I have downloaded several versions of OSx86, burned the ISO images onto DVDs, and booted from the DVD-ROM drive on my Toshiba Satellite M30. I'm not setting up partitions; I only want OSX on the system. Here's my problem: when I boot (with every version), I hit enter and it says that it's loading Darwin. Then I get a grey background with the Apple logo and an animated circle. After several minutes of nothing happening, a circle with a bar through it appears over top of the Apple logo. Is this a common problem? Does it mean that OSX doesn't support my hardware configuration? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandlerhill Posted June 9, 2006 Author Share Posted June 9, 2006 I should probably post a little about the laptop: Toshiba Satellite M30 (PSM30C-0RUU9) Intel Pentium M @ 1500 MHz 512 MB DDR RAM 80 GB HDD CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 802.11b built-in wireless LAN RJ-45 LAN connector RJ-11 Modem connector SD Card slot 3x USB 2.0 ports Parallel port and a few other things EDIT: I've read that this problem can be solved by making the DVD-ROM drive the master on the secondary IDE cable. I opened up the laptop, and there does not seem to be a way to do this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-127041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandlerhill Posted June 13, 2006 Author Share Posted June 13, 2006 I hate to do this, but: *bump* Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-128737 Share on other sites More sharing options...
manny Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 Hi, did you format a portion of your drive to install osx on? Or is the whole partition still running windows? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-128774 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrokeStudent Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 same this is happening to me same this is happening to me Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-128927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 Is this a common problem? Does it mean that OSX doesn't support my hardware configuration? This is a very common problem and very nebulous. If you were to boot up with a -v (verbose mode) you would probably see an error message saying it is waiting for root device. You'll find dozens of threads about this. It means that the boot drive cannot be found. That is why it is recommended to adjust your IDE chain to get the drive as master without cable select. One person succeeded after removing his flash card because that was confusing as to whether it was a boot device. The only other suggestions are here: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...e.22_message.3F Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-128933 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandlerhill Posted June 13, 2006 Author Share Posted June 13, 2006 Hi, did you format a portion of your drive to install osx on? Or is the whole partition still running windows? Yes, the whole thing is still running Windows. Rammjet, I'll give some of those suggestions a try this afternoon. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-128943 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 Yes, the whole thing is still running Windows. But you did create a separate partition for MacOSX, made it "primary" (not logical) and "active", and then during the install, you formatted it as MacOS Extended Journaled from the installer....right? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-128947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandlerhill Posted June 13, 2006 Author Share Posted June 13, 2006 But you did create a separate partition for MacOSX, made it "primary" (not logical) and "active", and then during the install, you formatted it as MacOS Extended Journaled from the installer....right? No; I don't want Windows on there at all; I only want OSX on the hard drive. I've tried using the following prompts, but none have worked: platform=X86PC -v -x -v rd=disk0s* -v (replace the * with your OS X partition number) -f -v The FAQ also mentions something about using different boot loaders. How exactly would this solve the problem? Also, would it work if I used an external DVD-ROM drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-129172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandlerhill Posted June 15, 2006 Author Share Posted June 15, 2006 Okay; now I have a different problem. I've managed to get it to boot, but before the installation even starts, I get the following message in English, French, German and Japanese: You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button. I restart and boot from the CD once again, but I get the same message. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-129795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandlerhill Posted June 17, 2006 Author Share Posted June 17, 2006 *bump* Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-131310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 That's a kernel panic. You really should go into verbose mode automatically, so you can see why it's panicing. -v forever baby! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-131311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandlerhill Posted June 18, 2006 Author Share Posted June 18, 2006 Here's the error. Maybe someone will be able to make some sense of it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-131378 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 I would guess it could having something to do with your ide being on the wrong channel, so it attempts to boot from nfs instead. I've seen this same error several times, and I think it was almost always on a laptop. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-131383 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandlerhill Posted June 18, 2006 Author Share Posted June 18, 2006 Is there anything I can do to fix the problem? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-131393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandlerhill Posted June 20, 2006 Author Share Posted June 20, 2006 Okay, new problem: After giving up on trying to boot from the install DVD, I decided to dd the hard disc image from a 10 GB Windows partition onto the OS X Partition (NTFS formatted - is this where I went wrong?). Here's the command I used: dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition0 bs=512 skip=63 --progress Everything seemed fine, but now when I try to restart the computer, I get the following error: HFS+ partition error Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-132661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mextrus Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 The problem is indeed that you cannot copy the hard disk image over to an improperly formated hard drive. you need to have the hard drive you are copying to be a primary partition, formated as type AF. If you don't format it as type AF then osx can't boot because the formatting is wrong. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-133597 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandlerhill Posted June 24, 2006 Author Share Posted June 24, 2006 I set the partition type to 'af' in fdisk on an old Linux install CD, then I used dd from Windows to copy the image. I still get the same error: HFS+ partition error. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-134178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mextrus Posted June 24, 2006 Share Posted June 24, 2006 Then it appears that somewhere, there is an error in the HD image. Either it downloaded wrong (you checked the file length or hash?) or it didn't dd correctly? The only time I was able to get a hard drive image copied by dd to work was when I used my friend's mac, and placed the hard drive inside an external enclosure, connected it to the mac, and used the mac to create the partition correctly. It worked once when I did it with a linux boot disk, but it didn't ever finish booting before it would stall due to some incompatible pieces of hardware. My suggest would be to try a native install from a patched dvd.. It's much more forgiving of partitions because you can use the installer itself to partition and set up the drive if it's not going to be used by another OS.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-134284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandlerhill Posted June 24, 2006 Author Share Posted June 24, 2006 I'd love to be able to do a native install from the patched DVD; but unfortunately, I haven't been able to get past that kernel panic (see screenshot above). Any ideas on how to fix it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-134296 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted June 24, 2006 Share Posted June 24, 2006 have you checked to make sure that the drive you're trying to put it on is primary master if it's PATA? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-134297 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandlerhill Posted June 24, 2006 Author Share Posted June 24, 2006 It's not regular PATA; frankly, I have no idea what it is. This is my first laptop after years of dealing with desktop PCs and good old PATA. It might be some form of PATA, but the pins do not line up with a regular PATA cable. Assuming it is some form of PATA (it's definately not SATA), I have yet to find a way to set it to primary master. The BIOS on the laptop is complete {censored}, and there doesn't seem to be a way of doing this in BIOS. EDIT: Forgive me for sounding like such a noob. I'm really not. Really. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19387-installation-problem/#findComment-134329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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