JohnnyT Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 I installed 10.4.4 on a secondary SATA HD. Partitioned the disk Extended Journaled. Install went peachy, no problems. Rebooted and changed BIOS to boot from second HD. All I get is a black screen with a blinking cursor. Does not attempt to load anything. Any thoughts? The partition is set to active. Maybe I should just get 10.4.7 huh? Asus P5WD2 Premium mobo Intel Pentium D 3.2GHz 2GB DDR2 Asus nVidia 7800GTX 250GB SATA2 HD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24657-install-went-fine-reboots-to-blinking-cursor/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
shimq1 Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Is the thing on the top left corner? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24657-install-went-fine-reboots-to-blinking-cursor/#findComment-166224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyT Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 Yes Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24657-install-went-fine-reboots-to-blinking-cursor/#findComment-166460 Share on other sites More sharing options...
loiphin Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 I had the same problem when installing using Jas or Hotiso 10.4.6. The install goes fine and then when I reboot all I get is a black screen with a cursor in the top left. I installed with a ASUS EAX1600XT card. I suspected the card was at fault, so I removed the card and put my GT 6800 back in. And voila, Mac OS X appeared without any issues. So what I did next was to try and setup the kext files so they would recognise my X1600XT. By mistake I deleted all the ATI files, and realised now I was screwed. But just out of interest I popped the X1600XT back in again and it worked! So what I conclude is that the native X1600 Apple drivers didn't properly load and gave me the black screen, but by deleting the ATI drivers, it resorted to a std VESA driver... *I guess* I suspect this could be the same for your card. Try deleting the Geforce kext's in /System/Library/Extentions and see what happens. But make a backup by copying them to a separate directory! loi. Sorry , I just realised that yours doesn't even boot! .. sorry, I misread your post. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24657-install-went-fine-reboots-to-blinking-cursor/#findComment-166818 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyT Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 Installed 10.4.6 All systems go Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24657-install-went-fine-reboots-to-blinking-cursor/#findComment-166840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brendankoch Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 I have the exact same problem as above where it won't even start to boot but it boots fine if I have the Install DVD in the drive. The partition is set to active but when I tried to bless the volume I found that the bless command is missing from my installation. It should be in /usr/sbin/ but its not. Anyone have any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24657-install-went-fine-reboots-to-blinking-cursor/#findComment-167657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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