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Snow Leopard won't boot without bootdisc


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Right. I got Snow Leopard installed onto my HP Pavilion A6400f (http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01390590) and used finder(?) to upgrade to the latest version. When the install got to the end it asked to reboot, which I did. After 40 minutes of the screen sitting at the purple haze background I did a hard reboot. Nothing.

The screen displays these lines:

 

boot0: GPT

boot0: test

boot0: test

boot0: GPT

boot0: test

boot0: test

boot0: error

 

I can return to the unit boot screen using the Windows salute (3 fingers, one each on CTRL, ALT, & DEL).

 

When I get the unit to start, I get the Apple WSOD - white screen of death - which just shows the Apple logo. I'm loading from a WD Blue Mainstream 500GB 7200RPM SATA III 6Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - WDBH2D5000ENCNRSN

 

Did I fum-dum something?

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Well, here's another fine mess you've gotten us into. I decided to start from scratch installing Mountain Lion. For some reason the retail install disc gets to around42% installed and then the computer reboots.I'm starting the install with PCIRootUID=1 which worked originally. I have the onboard LAN connected - should I disconnect it? I had gotten as far as getting 10.6.3 installed but attempts to upgrade to 10.6.8 ended up with a system freeze or reboot.

 

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01390590

8GB RAM

500GB HDD @ 2x250GB partitions

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Alright mate, the problem is that you have a drive with 4K boot sectors instead of 512K ones. This is an easy fix with a quick Google search: http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/hackintosh-boot0-error.html

 

Best regards,

 

- Matt

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I solved the problem and committed a cardinal sin for my family. I read the bloody instruction. Snow Leopard is successfully installed and upgraded from 10.6.3 to 10.6.8. On to fixing the Boot0 error.

 

BTW - My box won't boot from USB. Can I use the Nawcom or other other boot CD disk?

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On 11/9/2016 at 6:44 PM, CharCat said:

I solved the problem and committed a cardinal sin for my family. I read the bloody instruction. Snow Leopard is successfully installed and upgraded from 10.6.3 to 10.6.8. On to fixing the Boot0 error.

 

BTW - My box won't boot from USB. Can I use the Nawcom or other other boot CD disk?

 

I dont think I can link it, but there is an UpdateHelper for snow leopard that I needed to use in order to get the system to boot after I upgraded to 10.6.8, otherwise it would always hang with some error.

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