dreams3577 Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 Hi All Last night i partitioned a seperate disk, used dd to write tiger-x86.img and have setup dual boot. However I get the dual boot menu, choose Mac OS X I then get a black screen with Darwin/X86 on it after that i get a white screen with the apple symbol on it and a rotating cursor after about a minute i then get a small grey no entry sign over the apple symbol. I have left the machine however it does not go any further. I am using a USB keyboard and mouse My machine is a Intel® Pentium® 4 processor 630 MSI 925X Neo Platinum motherboard 4GB DDR2 533 memory Nvidia 6800 Ultra 256 Anybody got any ideas as what could be wrong? Cheers Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreams3577 Posted November 9, 2006 Author Share Posted November 9, 2006 bump....any ideas??? please...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 First off, get a newer version. tiger-x86.flat is 10.4.1 which is a year old. We're on 10.4.8 now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreams3577 Posted November 12, 2006 Author Share Posted November 12, 2006 Hi All I downloaded Jas 10.4.8 install DVD, but i am still getting the same issue. The install went really well, booted of the DVD first time, keyboard and mouse worked and only took about 15-20 mins to install. At the end of the install, it asks for a restart, which it did but hung on 'MACH Reboot', so i used the reset button on the box. The machine starts and darwin bootloader runs then i get a white screen with the apple symbol on it and a rotating cursor after about a minute i then get a small grey no entry sign over the apple symbol. What does this error mean? how do i fix it? I have removed all other drives and os x is the only OS on the drive My machine is a Intel Pentium 4 processor 630 (3GHZ) MSI 925X Neo Platinum motherboard 2GB DDR2 533 memory Nvidia 6800 256mb Thanks for your help Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacSimilian Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 you have to set your os x partition active. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=22844 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreams3577 Posted November 12, 2006 Author Share Posted November 12, 2006 Hi Ya I was sure that the drive was active already, however i followed the guide, and checked that it was active, however i still have the same issue (as do a few others on this forum) anybody know whats wrong??? cheers steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 would you mind booting with -v and tell us waht you see ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreams3577 Posted November 13, 2006 Author Share Posted November 13, 2006 hi semthex I have taken photos as booting with -v (i have joined them to make it easier). after this the screen goes to the apple no entry screen thank you for your help cheers steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spbcat Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 It's strange that you can't boot because the errors that you have are not critical... I have almost the same errors and boot succesfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreams3577 Posted November 14, 2006 Author Share Posted November 14, 2006 Hi All I found that i was pressing F8 at the wrong time, and the previous screen shot i provided was while booting from the install DVD. However i have now discovered that i need to press the F8 key just before the Darwin Screen starts and thereby giving me true boot options, i have tried -F and -X and i still get the apple logo with the no entry sign. However if i use the -v option it hangs on "Still waiting for root device" I take it that it is waiting for the hard drive? I have made sure that the drive is on master and the dvd drive is on slave, and the hard drive is set to active. Any ideas how to fix the issue? Cheers Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spbcat Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Yes, it's waiting for hard drive. But may be it is some problem with dvd drive. You can try to set dvd drive on master on the second channel. So, you will have the hard drive on the master and the dvd drive on the master too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronan001 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Hi, Have you included any of the Patches that are not for your particular CPU model??? There is a customise button you should click during installation, do not install the patches that are not relevant to your machine, there is a description for each patch shown. cheers, Ro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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