Blinking underscore

[sroerick]

OK, I installed using winhex, I've got a 6 gig partition, everything looks good, until I restart.

 

I get, simply, a blinking underscore.

 

Running a 3200+.

[zhLilDoggi]

How in the bloody hell would you get it booted with a hex editor?

[sroerick]

It's effectively the same thing as the dd command -- It copied it bit for bit to my drive.

 

It made a 6 gig partition, and left the remaining 144-odd gigs unpartitioned -- sounds like a success to me.

 

Oh, I'm not using an ide drive -- SATA. Would this come into play at all?

 

EDIT: I just remembered, the same thing happened when I tried to boot to Darwin.

[fewyn]

It's effectively the same thing as the dd command -- It copied it bit for bit to my drive.

 

It made  a 6 gig partition, and left the remaining 144-odd gigs unpartitioned -- sounds like a success to me.

 

Oh, I'm not using an ide drive -- SATA. Would this come into play at all?

 

EDIT: I just remembered, the same thing happened when I tried to boot to Darwin.

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Sata is unsupported in darwin and os x86 afaik.

[martinp]

Same thing happens for me on a Fujitsu Siemens (Intel P4 3Ghz and a standard IDE-drive). Anyone who knows how to resolve this?

[martinp]

Possible solution: I made the mistake to copy the image to /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/hda. Reinstalling now brings up the Darwin boot prompt. However, a second after booting begins the computer is restarted. Doesn't matter which boot flags I set, the computer restarts as soon as booting begins.