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 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 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyT Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 Yes Link to comment 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 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 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 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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