eggie Posted June 24, 2006 Share Posted June 24, 2006 i have mac osx 10.4.3 with the iso patched for sse2 i have a 9.7 gig partion on my pc and i am intending on installing osx on to that and dual boot it with windows the only problem is that when i start the osx disk it says loading darwin/x86 and the normal grey screen with the apple appears but almost as soon as the grey screen appears the screen darkens and a dialouge box appears saying to restart the computer by pressing the power button but when i do that and start up the install disk again i get the same message this is as far as i can get thanks in advance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20361-help-needed-not-geting-past-2nd-sreen/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted June 24, 2006 Share Posted June 24, 2006 That sound like a kernel panic. Type "-v" at the boot screen to start in verbose mode in order to see the error messages and get some pictures. And what's your system specs? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20361-help-needed-not-geting-past-2nd-sreen/#findComment-134359 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggie Posted June 24, 2006 Author Share Posted June 24, 2006 my pc specs are pentium 4 northwood 2.4ghz 512mb ram gigabyte GA8SG800 motherboard winfast a340td graphics and how do i take a screen shot of what is displayed after i have typed -v Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20361-help-needed-not-geting-past-2nd-sreen/#findComment-134365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted June 24, 2006 Share Posted June 24, 2006 Well, I said "pictures", not "screenshots"... Take a camera and just take some pictures of your screen. Or take a piece of paper and a pencil and write them down... Other than that, make sure the 9.7GB partition is primary (not logical), there aren't any logical partition before that one on the HDD. It's preferably to use an ATA HDD (you will be fine with SATA if the chipset is Intel too). Unplug any other HDDs (if you have more than one) and put the DVD-Rom as a slave on the same IDE cable with the HDD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20361-help-needed-not-geting-past-2nd-sreen/#findComment-134502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggie Posted June 25, 2006 Author Share Posted June 25, 2006 ok here is the last 7 lines on the screen String + 0x00000024Frame 0xc74bbea4: PC 0xc037bdea args 0xc1b4dc80 0xc1b96ca0 0x000000006 0xc1dd3c00 _ZNK_11I0Catalouge14isModuleLoadedEP120 SDictionary + 0x0000004e ethernet MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 IP address: 0.0.0.0 Waiting for remote debugger connection Kdp_poll: no debugger device i was running my hdd on the primary ide connector as manster and my dvd drive on the secondary ide as master ill switch my cd drive which is slave to my hdd with my dvd drive also how do i tell if the partion is primary im not sure because i didnt make that partion (sorry im a bit of a n00b) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20361-help-needed-not-geting-past-2nd-sreen/#findComment-134612 Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 ...also how do i tell if the partion is primary im not sure because i didnt make that partion (sorry im a bit of a n00b) In Windoze open Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management On the left panel click on the + sign next to Storage and then click on Disk Management. Now (after few seconds) you can see on the right panel all your partitions from the HDD. If they are primary, they should have a horizontal blue stripe on them (in the lower half of the right panel). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20361-help-needed-not-geting-past-2nd-sreen/#findComment-134628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggie Posted June 26, 2006 Author Share Posted June 26, 2006 the partion is logical........so that kind of makes it useless for mac eh?? also im think of geting a new hdd any way for extra space so when i get it ill make a primary partion and put mac on that and use the logical partion for the extra storage for mac do you think that mac will work like that thanks for all of your help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20361-help-needed-not-geting-past-2nd-sreen/#findComment-135096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 Probably it will work, but to play it safe avoid making logical partitions. After all you can have 4 primary partitions on one HDD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20361-help-needed-not-geting-past-2nd-sreen/#findComment-135277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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