My 10.4.6 installation is a one-shot

[bobgorilla]

I've installed from a JaS 10.4.6 disc (burned with Disk Utility on my Powerbook), onto a Pentium D based machine. I selected the SSE3 patches, none of the AMD ones and so on. It's gone onto a PATA 40Gb hard drive partitioned as one big HFS+ partition (disk 1 according to Windows, disk0s1 according to the install DVD's terminal). There's another larger drive with a prior Windows XP installation on it (disk 0).

 

The installer completes, it reboots, it loads OSX. Joy!

 

But regardless of what I do, it never successfully reboots after that.

 

I've tried the boot.ini method and have Acronis doing bootloader-duty now. Boot.ini gave me a blinking cursor, Acronis gives me an "error loading booter" message.

 

I've made sure the partition is 0xAF from the install DVD's terminal. I've also tried using bless and fdisk as detailed on these forums.

 

So, am I missing something? Perhaps there's a better patched disc image to try?

[bobgorilla]

Are we allowed to gently bump posts?

 

I'm guessing everyone's stumped though, since it's had ~50 reads, so I'll just do it the once.

 

Crying shame, it runs so very well on that first boot.

[Trinidex]

This is a n00b response, bear in mind I'm only trying to help.

 

I'm installing this for the 1st time and I'm going through the "Intel.And.AMD.Patches" and I see one "Semjaza.10.4.6.Intel.Decrypts" which says "...From Samjaza to allow the system to boot post install"

 

Could this be the problem?

 

 

I've installed from a JaS 10.4.6 disc (burned with Disk Utility on my Powerbook), onto a Pentium D based machine. I selected the SSE3 patches, none of the AMD ones and so on. It's gone onto a PATA 40Gb hard drive partitioned as one big HFS+ partition (disk 1 according to Windows, disk0s1 according to the install DVD's terminal). There's another larger drive with a prior Windows XP installation on it (disk 0).

 

The installer completes, it reboots, it loads OSX. Joy!

 

But regardless of what I do, it never successfully reboots after that.

 

I've tried the boot.ini method and have Acronis doing bootloader-duty now. Boot.ini gave me a blinking cursor, Acronis gives me an "error loading booter" message.

 

I've made sure the partition is 0xAF from the install DVD's terminal. I've also tried using bless and fdisk as detailed on these forums.

 

So, am I missing something? Perhaps there's a better patched disc image to try?

[Rammjet]

It's gone onto a PATA 40Gb hard drive partitioned as one big HFS+ partition (disk 1 according to Windows, disk0s1 according to the install DVD's terminal). There's another larger drive with a prior Windows XP installation on it (disk 0).

If you partitioned the hard drive using Disk Utility on the install DVD, this might be your problem.

 

You are installing onto a PC with BIOS. BIOS expects the partitioning scheme to be MBR. Disk Utility on the install DVD partitions the hard drive as GUID - the scheme for Intel Macs with EFI instead of BIOS.

 

You should partition the hard drive using a Windows/Linux disk/partition utility in order to obtain the MBR partition scheme. Simply formatting the entire drive as FAT32 will accomplish this automatically. Note: formatting FAT32 from within Windows should not be done because Windows has a limit of 32 GB for a partition. If your drive is larger than that, then use a 3rd party utility. The MBR scheme creates a teeny-tiny hidden partition at the start of the drive for the boot information and the index for the partitions. The remainder of the drive is one big primary partition. Be sure to set the primary partition "active", and if possible, give the primary partition the ID of AF.

 

When you start to install OSX, go to Disk Utility in the Utilities menu. In the left pane, select the primary partition on the drive. The left pane will display the hard drive icon and below that will be the primary partition icon. Select the partition, not the hard drive. Format (erase) the partition as MacOS Extended Journaled (HFS+). Finish your installation by selecting packages for your computer in the Customize window before clicking the Install button.

[joe75]

Just a suggestion to put two partitions in Fat32 like Rammjet instructed. Maybe 2 20Gb, one for OS X and the other leave in Fat32 so you can right and save back and forth

[bobgorilla]

I'm installing this for the 1st time and I'm going through the "Intel.And.AMD.Patches" and I see one "Semjaza.10.4.6.Intel.Decrypts" which says "...From Samjaza to allow the system to boot post install"

 

Could this be the problem?

 

Oooh, My JaS DVD doesn't have that. Should I score a new DVD, or can I acquire the package from somewhere and apply it after the first install?

 

I'm totally going to try formatting it in the meantime.

 

I did have the 40Gb drive as Fat32 but I re-formatted from within the install DVD, instead of just erasing the partition like you guys are suggesting.

 

Wheee, things to try, things to try~

 

[edit] Seems that fixed it (the formatting). Now to wrassle with the ATi drivers (I've got a 9800pro) and maybe the .4.8 update when I get bold enough.