Promethe Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 I've finally managed to install Mac OSx86 on D945GTP mainboard. Yeah. It gone nice. Clean 40 GB P-ATA drive, two partitions (one HFS+, one FAT32 - for file exchange). DVD Installer installed everything, rebooted computer, and... It just blinks. I don't see any Darwin prompt (like in VMware), only blinking this: _ What is more funny, DDed VMware image works (hmm... shows prompt actually, becouse without drivers for ICH7 it can't boot at all - I added them to install DVD). I also tried to start VMware with this drive as native. And the Darwin prompt showed. So? What shall I do? Is there any problem with bootloader? Maybe I should change something in BIOS? Or maybe I should say "Bye, bye" to OS X? PS. I'll try changing P-ATA support from enhanced to legacy, it might help, but VMware image prompt is shown in both options PS2. I checked drive with Acronis. Partition is set as primary ShagOS swap and it's active. PS3. After a few seconds (about half a minute) it comes up with "Error loading booter" message. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2334-just-one-step-from-success/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
elisan Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 A few known Problems: -There is a 8GB limit from Darwin, the Kernel is not allowed to be placed behind sector 4096. -the Darwin partition has to be set to "active" (like a Windoze partition) -the harddisk containing Darwin should be primary master -sometimes SATA is the troublemaker, disable SATA in Bios Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2334-just-one-step-from-success/#findComment-15233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promethe Posted September 11, 2005 Author Share Posted September 11, 2005 A few known Problems:-There is a 8GB limit from Darwin, the Kernel is not allowed to be placed behind sector 4096. -the Darwin partition has to be set to "active" (like a Windoze partition) -the harddisk containing Darwin should be primary master -sometimes SATA is the troublemaker, disable SATA in Bios <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ad. 1. In VMware it boots, so no problem with kernel placement at all. Ad. 2. Set to active, will check it once more under gentoo... Ad. 3. Primary master - set. Ad. 4. SATA disable - doesn't work. Summa summarum - doesn't work. I'm only ONE STEP from success. Argh! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2334-just-one-step-from-success/#findComment-15237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elisan Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 I´ve install native with PATA, but harddisk boots perfectly connected to USB also. If you got some USB-Case (even if it´s made for CDROM) give it a try! As your BIOS is some normal "Intel-BIOS", it starts looking for ANY boot code in the MBR. Proof your OSX86/Darwin boot code with a disk editor, or post it here. Here is mine: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 000000000 FA 31 C0 8E D0 BC F0 FF FB 8E C0 8E D8 BE 00 7C ú1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2334-just-one-step-from-success/#findComment-15267 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promethe Posted September 11, 2005 Author Share Posted September 11, 2005 I've got the same, I think... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2334-just-one-step-from-success/#findComment-15280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 Check the hard disk speedup thread (its a sticky in one forum). You need to edit the PIIX kext in that thread to have your device ID. That should make things work with 845G PATA or SATA. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2334-just-one-step-from-success/#findComment-15285 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promethe Posted September 11, 2005 Author Share Posted September 11, 2005 I've changed it on Installation DVD. Do I have to change it once more? Would it be reason, then bootloader even doesn't come up? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2334-just-one-step-from-success/#findComment-15291 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 It sounds like it. A bit odd since both PATA and SATA work for me on default BIOS settings. I haven't tried the install DVD, yet, though. I was waiting on some hardware and then I was going to replace all the kexts on it with my edited ones and see if it would run. I have an edited deadmoo I'm using currently. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2334-just-one-step-from-success/#findComment-15293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promethe Posted September 11, 2005 Author Share Posted September 11, 2005 DD'ing in progress Is there any way to edit VMDK file manually under Windows? I don't want to mess around with VMware, it's sloooow... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2334-just-one-step-from-success/#findComment-15299 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 What is VMDK? If you're asking about DVD images... I just convert DMG to ISO with UltraISO and then use Transmac to edit them. But, since I have a Mac, 99% of the time I just natively edit DMG files. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2334-just-one-step-from-success/#findComment-15303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promethe Posted September 11, 2005 Author Share Posted September 11, 2005 Sorry for typo. I meant about VMware image. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2334-just-one-step-from-success/#findComment-15304 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promethe Posted September 11, 2005 Author Share Posted September 11, 2005 There is something bad with my HDD. I DD'd VMware image, and it didn't boot. elephant. I have to fix MBR. Any idea how to do this without floppy? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2334-just-one-step-from-success/#findComment-15346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 Get a DOS boot disk image and burn it to CD (make sure the image has fdisk on it) and then run fdisk /mbr. If XP is installed somewhere on the disk, you can boot off the XP install CD and enter the recovery console and have run fixmbr. If you're using DD, as long as you were using a command with the skip=63 it shouldn't be screwing with the MBR, though. Oh, and check this thread, I put some kexts in it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2334-just-one-step-from-success/#findComment-15347 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryT Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 (edited) I had problems with the install which were resolved when I uodated the BIOS. I had to have Windows installed or use a windows machine to get the BIOS link. I also found that I was having installation errors with a Plextor 740 and HP 740 both of which are 16x DVD drives. I ran the install with a slower (older) DVD and the install went normally (except for built-in ethernet and sound). The build was from EDIT: Removed content violating DMCA My configuration: Pentium 4D 830 intel 945GNT 2x 512 DDR 400 Sony DRU-500 DVD WD 250 P-ATA (Cheap) 10/100 Ethernet (so that I can connect) USB2 Firewire Accelerated Video 1280x1024@85 Edited February 17, 2006 by Metrogirl Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2334-just-one-step-from-success/#findComment-35222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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