sroerick Posted August 13, 2005 Share Posted August 13, 2005 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+. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219-blinking-underscore/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhLilDoggi Posted August 13, 2005 Share Posted August 13, 2005 How in the bloody hell would you get it booted with a hex editor? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219-blinking-underscore/#findComment-1648 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sroerick Posted August 13, 2005 Author Share Posted August 13, 2005 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219-blinking-underscore/#findComment-1651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fewyn Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 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. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sata is unsupported in darwin and os x86 afaik. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219-blinking-underscore/#findComment-1736 Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinp Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Same thing happens for me on a Fujitsu Siemens (Intel P4 3Ghz and a standard IDE-drive). Anyone who knows how to resolve this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219-blinking-underscore/#findComment-1765 Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinp Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219-blinking-underscore/#findComment-1788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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