Daimajin Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 My setup is: C2D e6600 P5B deluxe wifi ati x1800 80gb SATA hdd external USB dvd-rom I'm using 10.4.8 JaS Intel SSE3 only. So what happened is I installed osx 10.4.8 and everything went well. It booted up fine, I got internet working on it then I decided I'd try that fix to get the Jmicro working on it. That destroyed my system and I wasn't able to get back into the OS. I said whatever, I'll just erase my partition and start again. Now everytime I install, it finishes the installation successfully and when I go to boot up into my OSX drive all I see is a "_" hanging there in the top left corner. No more Darwin x86 message, no apple logo with the line through it. Just the underscore. I tried a variety of different ways to format and convert my harddrive so that it might work but after around 5 different installs, I still get the same thing. The thing that bugs me the most is that I got it working at one point with two different versions, but now they both don't work for me. I just end up with the "_" thing. I tried to search for this problem in the forums but couldn't come up with anything. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this? I would have done some kind of verbose mode but I can't even get into Darwin to press F8 and pick my boot parameters. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/33449-1048-bootup-problems/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolodex Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 try installing via vmware. maybe thatll change something? i had the same problem, but solved via vmware. (10.4.7 & .8) but the weird thing is, i lost all my 3 years work, trying to install .8 natively and afterwards, it went up smoothly (native install) good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/33449-1048-bootup-problems/#findComment-236417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Be sure you are using the JaS 10.4.8 Intel SSE3 Only Reseed posted on Nov. 3, 2006. There was a previous 10.4.8 iso that had a bad Disk Utility and also was corrupted. It was pulled from the torrents, but others kept posting it. Use an older iso to erase your partition as MacOS Extended Journaled. Then quit and boot the 10.4.8 installer and continue installation. The Disk Utility on the older iso should fix your problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/33449-1048-bootup-problems/#findComment-236543 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daimajin Posted November 17, 2006 Author Share Posted November 17, 2006 Well I'm pretty sure I have the reseed because it worked for me once. I'll try my 10.4.6 disk utility and erase my partition then reinstall with 10.4.8. If that doesn't work I'll try the VMWare thing. Thanks, I'll keep you all posted. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/33449-1048-bootup-problems/#findComment-236606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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