Robbeke Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 Hi Guys, Please welcome a new member to this forum. I have to admit I always used Windows but since I got a Mac G3 (slow one) and my collegue purchased an iBook I want to take a look at OS X because at first impression I liked it. For I don't have the budget now to buy a real mac so I would like to test it on my current pc and if I enjoy using it my next new computer will be a iMac! Since I have pretty compliant hardware (I think) it should work fine on my pc so I gave it (several ) tries. below more info Computer specs CPU: Intel Prescott 630, 2 MB Cache, SSE3 enabled, EMT64 & HTT enabled Mobo: Intel 915 PBL, serial ATA matrix raid, one IDE channel Memory: 2 GB RAM Optical: PX-716 Serial ATA Harddisk: 2 x 200 Gbyte S-ATA I also have for testing purposes 1 x 20 Gb IDE 1 x DVDRW IDE The Install discs I have: 10.4.6 HotISO release (which is the JaS patched one I saw on several posts) 10.4.3 patched, got it from a collegue so I don't know which exact release it is. One month ago I did a quick try to install 10.4.3 on my pc but gave up since it didn't detect my S-ATA optical and drives. I didn't had test devices with me so I gave up. Now a month later I tried again and I want to get this working... Install try one (try to get it working...) I just connected my two test devices (PATA disk and optical) to my pc and disconnected all S-ATA devices. Then I used the 10.4.3 installer which was pretty slow but booted into installer. The P-ATA drive I got from my mac G3 and was already formatted with HFS journaled in the PowerPC installer. I erased the drive using disk utility and went on installing OS X After installation I rebooted and got the message that no OS was found. I rebooted with installer and using startup utility I chose to reboot from harddisk, after that OS x just booted and ran fine: it even detected my NIC by example... The issue is: I always need to boot from the installer CD because direct booting from harddisk does not work... I tried to find some information how to fix the direct-boot issue but couldn't get this fixed... After my other test I'm thinking it could be one of those two: a ) The x86 OSX hacked OS X disk does not support native booting b ) Partition table issue? Partition not active or something else I'm not aware of? So I gave up because I didn't found help via the Wiki's.. Then I wanted to try if I still didn't get my S-ATA drives working.. Install try two (my preference to get this working) Disk Configuration One month ago I already tried this but I got the message that the installer could not find the root device so I was thinking my S-ATA controller was not supported and after some switching drives I gave up... I forgot one thing, see below... Some time later on I was thinking: OS X will never recognize the discs when I put them in Intel Matrix storage (raid) mode and that would be the issue. So I reconfigured my BIOS's S-ATA settings. I changed the mode from 'enhanced' to 'legacy' so it kind of emulates 2 IDE channels and mapped the 4 S-ATA channels to ATA locations. I configured and connected drives so they are recognized as Pr Master: Harddisk Secondary master: PX-716SA Sec Master: harddisk I booted the HotIso image and it was booting (and pretty fast!). It detected my optical and two harddisks so I think the S-ATA issue is thereby fixed. I got into the installer and used disk utility to remove existing partitions and create a new HFS extended journal partition. I installed Mac OS X and then the computer rebooted... I tried to boot from Harddisk and I only got b0 on my screen... I did some research and found that I should make the partition active, which I did using a Linux floppy. After that I got the message that Mac OS could not find '/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist' This was yesterday night very very late... I don't really have an idea what could be causing the issue but I'm thinking about the same two options as my previous attempt... This is why I opened this post... Other questions I also am wondering why I can't find 'native' guides, I only find dualboot guides, is this because a ) it just does not work with the hacks? b ) It should just work out of the box? Then I just wanted to start creating a dualboot and wanted to follow the guides step by step so I booted Norton ghost to restore my disk image but suprisingly it did not found my harddisks... Is this because the OS X installer screwed partition table or has this nothing to do with it? Didn't have the time to check this out yet but maybe one of you could tell me t his in advance... Anyway it was 4 AM so I quit and went to sleep. Conclusion: I'm stuck right now and I'm planning to continue sunday in the evening... Can somebody advice what I forgot/did wrong/still have to do... For the moment I've got a OS X installed on my S-ATA disk which is giving the could not find '/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist' error. If this is easily fixable I - off course- would prefer this option. many many many thanks in advance for the help! Roeben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioactivity Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 I believe if you want to run it completely native you need to set the partition as active and configure the bios to boot from the hard drive. If you just have os x instaled it should boot...I could be wrong though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbeke Posted July 15, 2006 Author Share Posted July 15, 2006 Thanks for your reply, but I already configured the BIOS to boot from that harddisk and since it complains about a file it looks to me he boots from the right harddisk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbeke Posted July 16, 2006 Author Share Posted July 16, 2006 Little bump, nobody with an idea or did I miss something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbeke Posted July 17, 2006 Author Share Posted July 17, 2006 Hi Folks, Just informing you guys that OS X is running fine and smooth now! The problem was my installation DVD for 10.4.6 (HotISO) which does not seem to work on my pc. I just installed 10.4.4 and everything is running great now Still one question: are there any guides available that explain how to update to 10.4.6 and 10.4.7... I just find some short explanations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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