BO ERROR

[scarr]

I have a toshiba laptop that sucessfully boots from the 10.6 jas installation cd and i can sucessfully install mac os x completely without any kernal problems.

[/u]After the installation, my machine reboots and gives a black screen (during post) proclaiming BO ERROR. I can not boot into os x.

On this machine, i have sucessfully installed 10.1 (in the past) and booted up the gui with network and sound.

 

Google reported nothing on a bo error, whcih i assume is boot error? Thnx for any information or links you can point out.

The machine runs windows fine, and has no hardware problems.

Here are the specs of the machine, yes its old, but it is the only machine that comes close to anything intel i own. Sound and network came right out of the box with 10.1, which i lost the install cd for.

Processor:

Intel® Celeron® M 330 1.4 GHZ |

Hard Drive:

40GB ATA-5

 

Memory:

256MB (2048MB max) DDRAM | Memory Slots available for Upgrade: 1 | Maximum RAM per available slot: 1024MB

 

Optical Drives:

CD-ROM (read), CD-R (read), CD-RW (read/write), DVD-ROM (read), DVD-R (read), DVD-RW (read), DVD-RAM (read)

 

Cache:

1MB integrated on-die level 2

 

Screen:

15.0" XGA TFT (Resolution: 1024 x 768 pixels)

 

Graphics card:

Intel 855GME, 16MB-64MB (DVMA) shared video memory

 

Audio card:

Realtek ALC202 Codec Chip Software Sound, 16-bit stereo Windows Sound System

 

Speakers:

built-in harman/kardon Stereo Speakers

Connectivity & Interface

 

Networking:

56k modem, 10/100 Ethernet LAN

 

Ports/Slots:

Secure Digital (SD), S-Video Out, USB2.0, FireWire/iLink, Parallel, S-Video out, VGA out (Monitor), TV out, Line-In, Ethernet Jack

 

Mouse/Pointer:

Touchpad

 

Keyboard:

Full sized 85 keys with 12 function keys Application keys and HotKey function

[Korrupted]

Use Partition Magic/Acronis to make your partition active. If that doesn't work, patch your jas dvd with his PPF 1 patch.

[Rammjet]

Another way to fix a b0 error:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=22844

[scarr]

Ramjet, thank you so much for your fast report. You truely have expertise and experience us Os X newcomering heavily need at the starting point.

 

Ramjet, having set hfs partition as primary, what would you recommend at a good boot loader and disk utility to resize the partition to allow another linux distribution or windows operating system to load on to the machine?

[Dragon]

use acronis loader or grub, they are the only 2 that i have ever needed to use

 

both boot linux/windows/mac

 

only downsides are it is quite complicated to install grub without linux and acronis loader is shareware.

[incription]

even i got this once .... i made MacOSX partition active and everything worked well.Try that if not done yet.

[phor2zero]

I had this exact difficulty with JaS 10.4.6 The problem is that the installation dvd doesn't bless the boot drive during isntallation.

 

reboot with your install disk and start Terminal from the Utilities menu. Enter this line:

 

bless -mount /Volumes/yourosxpartition/ -setBoot

 

press enter and then restart your computer without the install disk.

[Rammjet]

I had this exact difficulty with JaS 10.4.6 The problem is that the installation dvd doesn't bless the boot drive during isntallation.

 

reboot with your install disk and start Terminal from the Utilities menu. Enter this line:

 

bless -mount /Volumes/yourosxpartition/ -setBoot

 

press enter and then restart your computer without the install disk.

And, if for some reason that doesn't work, see posting #3 of this thread.