Mac Os can not start

[vinnih]

Hello,

 

i have installed 10.4.6 on my Acer Travel Mate 4247. I copied chain0 and edit boot.ini and now i have Mac Os in my menu, but when i select it and press enter, the screen blinks and my selection moves back to Windows. I set the mac os partition to active and mac os starts normally but i don't have the menu from which i can choose wich OS to run.

 

If anyone has a solution i will be glad to hear it.Thank you.

[Rammjet]

Setting the timeout parameter will force the Darwin (OSX) bootloader to appear.

 

Set the OSX partition active and boot into OSX.

 

Edit the boot.plist file at "/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist" and add the following:

 

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>10</string>

 

You can edit the file by dragging it to the Desktop and editing it with TextEdit, then dragging it back, answering the 2 resulting dialogs - Authenticate and yes to replace, then followed by using Disk Utility to repair permissions on the OSX partition.

 

Or you can do it via Terminal with this command:

sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

[Gotham]

Hello Everyone,

 

Im a first time installer of Mac OS X on PC. I went through the instalation just fine, i installed the SSE, SSE2 and 3 patches, the AMD patches, the works.

 

Then I booted off the DVD again, went into Fdisk, used the fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 command.

that made it active.

 

Just to make sure, I also used the Bless command that worked real nice.

 

i got no b0 errors after that.

 

heres the kicker though. I removed the DVD and rebooted. I aksed me if i wanted to see startup options, i pressed any key.

 

it then went ahead tot ake me though a zillion lines of command lines, that were apparently loading something, only reboot. repeating the same process again and again and again.

 

Please Advise.

 

Thanks

[vinnih]

Hi Rammjet,

thank you very much for your replay. Now i can choose wich OS to start. It is not the way i expeted but i think i can handel it from now on.

 

Thank you very very much.

 

Vinnih

[Rammjet]

It is not the way i expeted

 

If your problem is that you now have two bootloaders - ie, you select OSX in Windows and then select it again in Darwin, you can eliminate one of them by removing the chain0 command from your boot.ini. Just be sure the OSX partition is set "active" or you won't get any bootloader.