cyrana Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 I know I did this before. But for some reason I can't get it to install on this laptop. Compaq NC6000 with PM-1.6, mobility 9600, 60GB 7200 RPM drive. Half the time I never even get the Darwin boot screen, and the rest of the time I let the install CD boot, but it just says waiting for root device part-way through the boot process and never boots the install CD. Any ideas? OS X install boots (but can't boot after the install on this machine, just get a cursor). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 So let me get this straight, you're trying to install Darwin, not OSX, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted June 15, 2006 Author Share Posted June 15, 2006 Yeah in this case. I've just never had it refuse to even start. I just get that initial mac address 0.... part and then I get what I think is the end of the debugger (w.out the full kernel dump). The OS X comment was just some more info (as it has issues too). Downloading the iso again just to make sure I didn't get a corrupt download at this point. The NC6000 has a fairly standard Intell 855PM chipset for its IDE and stuff. I swear I had Darwin on it once before, but with a different hard drive (7200RPM @ 60GB now, was an old 4500RPM @ 40GB), so I hope it was just a corrupt ISO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 I hope it works out for you. I've never installed just Darwin, so I don't think I could help much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted June 15, 2006 Author Share Posted June 15, 2006 I was just trying to setup the partitions using the Darwin installer and then format HFS+ there to try and fix my OSX not booting after install. Darwin isn't exactly super fun to use as a standalone OS... EDIT: I must have had a corrupt ISO. I downloaded it again, and now the install works just fine. We'll see if formatting and doing all the partition setup in Darwin fixes my problem I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 How did it go for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted June 16, 2006 Author Share Posted June 16, 2006 Well, Darwin works fine. (not exceedingly useful) Also, I was able to fix my boot problems this way. For some reason, setting up the partitions in linux and then formatting in OS X wasn't working. I set them up and formatted them in Darwin, and then just formatted again with OS X and now it all boots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 Grats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingness Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 @cyrana: Didn't work after setting up in linux? How very strange... I prep all my OSX stuff from linux (as my disk structure is fairly complicated) and never had any problems. But then again, haven't tried Darwin on this lappie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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