10.4.7 JaS repack ISO not working

[VikingSkull]

Hi everyone!

 

Totally new to this OSX on greybox pc hardware malarky.

 

Downloaded the 10.4.7-AMD.Intel-JaS Repack.iso last night. Burnt it to DVD and rebooted. Got a grey screen with the little apple logo and a swirly activity thing but it sat doing that for approx 5 minutes. Then, on the apple logo, a weird square box popped up with a halt icon in it, similar to a stop sign.

 

Checked the HCL's and my hardware seems to be compatible, just for reference:

 

AMD 64 x2 Dual Core 4200+

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe

ASUS GeForce 7600

1gb of ram

WD 120gb HDD

 

Any idea why that weird icon was displayed? Im guessing its an error, but is say the 10.4.7 repack just an upgrade disc and I should ideally get the JaS 10.4.6.install.iso?

 

Any advice warmly appreciated!

 

EDIT: After having a sniff around the forum I found some posts about booting the OSX install dvd. I put the disc in, booted and I pressed enter at 'Press any key to boot from CD/DVD.' Other members on this forum have said the disc boots properly when pressing F8 to get a boot menu and then selecting the DVD drive. Could this be my problem?

[Rammjet]

When the DVD says to hit any key to install or hit F8 for options, hit F8. Type: cpus=1 and then hit Enter.

 

Next, you can try to put your hard drive and DVD drive on the same cable. Set the hard drive to master and the DVD drive to slave using jumpers, not cable select.

 

If that doesn't work, consider using VMWare to help you install to your hard drive. Once installed, you won't need VMWare to run OSX. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=11314

[VikingSkull]

When the DVD says to hit any key to install or hit F8 for options, hit F8. Type: cpus=1 and then hit Enter.

 

Next, you cab try to put your hard drive and DVD drive on the same cable. Set the hard drive to master and the DVD drive to slave using jumpers, not cable select.

 

If that doesn't work, consider using VMWare to help you install to your hard drive. Once installed, you won't need VMWare to run OSX. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=11314

 

Ok, a bit of news!

 

I ran the disk again but pressed F8 and used -v for verbose reporting. Looks like my hardware is detected ok but it suddenly stops at 'Still waiting for root device.'

 

Any damn clue what that means?

 

Also, I noticed that when it was scrolling through stuff it was loading, my CPU is reported to only use SSE and SSE2 instruction sets. My CPU DEFINATELY has SSE3. Is this the darwin loader just being silly?

 

Thanks for any help!