dmtza Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Hi, I installed 10.4.8 JAS DVD. The install goes smoothly but for whatever reason, I need the DVD to boot into the OS. I've set the partition active and it still requires the disc. Booting without the disc results in a dashed prompt on the top left and it just sits there. Any help would be much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordlex Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 it is verry important to say what hardware do you use. to know what kernel to use is important to know what CPU and mobo you use for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmtza Posted November 22, 2006 Author Share Posted November 22, 2006 I have a HP dc5100 P4 3.0ghz HT with 1GB Ram 40GB SATA Drive It seems like the boot sector did not install correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banz Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 i've had same problem. and i just went and set the fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 and set the 1st partition with af active. then boot up fine. also i made sure that when i partition my drive it was for mbr. as there are 3 choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordlex Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 try an ide hdd too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmtza Posted November 22, 2006 Author Share Posted November 22, 2006 I have already marked the partition active. When I installed 10.4.6 DVD, I had to mark the AF partition active. But this is the 10.4.8JAS DVD and even though it states the Partition as being active, it still does not boot unless I use the DVD. Please help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordlex Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 try to install on IDE HDD... and review settings in bios, maybe there is a problem there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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