shawnjan8 Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Hey guys, I've got a massive problem that I cant figure out... Ive installed JAS OSX86 10.4.8, and after much trouble installing (it sometimes went to the installer, once out of every ten attempts, anyone know why? I think it was because of the crappy disk..), it finally installed. I did the stuff, did customize, made the seperate partition and used Disk Utilities to make it a Journaled Mac drive, etc. And after a friggen million hours of installation, it loaded up XP(I took out the disk at this point, its installed right?) and I installed Acronis, and used the Operating System selector and loaded up OSx86 (it said Unknown operating system, its suppose to right? I just renamed it). After all this, I start it up, and all that happens is I get the gray Apple logo, with the spinning loading indicator on the bottom, which does absolutely nothing. If anyone could help me, that would be great, because I feel as if I am failing at life right now, and its not a good feeling. Oh and if anyone wants to know my specs, they are: HP nc8430 Intel Dual Core 2.0 GHz ATI X1600 256mb A wireless card that I forget the name of, but I know isnt going to work =( If anyone could help, that would be great, And I did check everywhere I could, and there was no help, I checked almost every post for from the last 4 pages, no luck....=( Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanbperiod Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 the install shouldn't take a friggen million hours.. at most it's about 30 mins. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-257374 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawnjan8 Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 lol yeah it was about that, but it said 12 min but each min took like 3, made it seem like an eternity Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-257377 Share on other sites More sharing options...
subramanyam Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 (edited) Use the boot option -v at startup and post the last three lines here.... Edited December 18, 2006 by subramanyam Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-257406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawnjan8 Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 I dont get options when booting into OSX, it goes directly into the gray apple screen, I only get to press F8 when I use the disk... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-257642 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 I dont get options when booting into OSX, it goes directly into the gray apple screen, I only get to press F8 when I use the disk... As soon as you select OSX to boot, the screen turns black and then goes to grey with a spinning gear icon. Right when the screen turns black to start the boot, press and hold F8 until a command prompt appears. If the grey screen appears, you missed it, try again. At the prompt, type your desired boot options. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-257649 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawnjan8 Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 k sweet, so i tried -v, and it hung on the Starting CPU 1. I then tried putting -cpus=1, and it got past the starting cpu 1, but it hung at the Kernel Verison stuff.... Anyone got a solution? My COre Duo supports SSE3 and everything, I dont seem to know what the problem is... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-257675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawnjan8 Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 .....bump Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-257821 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawnjan8 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Share Posted December 20, 2006 seriously, is no one willing to help me? there is no guide to the solution, i did everything i could do, and im stumped! just to let u guys know, i plan to donate if OSx86 is successfully installed on my PC! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-258585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
s3n4te Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 take your dvd out of your drive Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-258606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pharohbender Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Hey guys, I've got a massive problem that I cant figure out... Ive installed JAS OSX86 10.4.8, and after much trouble installing (it sometimes went to the installer, once out of every ten attempts, anyone know why? I think it was because of the crappy disk..), it finally installed. :censored2: your problem is simple burn you copy to a clean new disk check the disk during install see if its corruped if its not, select the right patches ie amd or intel and cross your fingers if your loading time is still crapy try a new drive successfully installed on AMD64 ASUS-A8N WITH NVIDIA 7600'SLI Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-258680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 seriously, is no one willing to help me? there is no guide to the solution, i did everything i could do, and im stumped! During installation, what packages did you choose in Customize? http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...ost&id=6330 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-258685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
richtig Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 (edited) Hey guys, I've got a massive problem that I cant figure out... Ive installed JAS OSX86 10.4.8, and after much trouble installing (it sometimes went to the installer, once out of every ten attempts, anyone know why? I think it was because of the crappy disk..), it finally installed. I did the stuff, did customize, made the seperate partition and used Disk Utilities to make it a Journaled Mac drive, etc. And after a friggen million hours of installation, it loaded up XP(I took out the disk at this point, its installed right?) and I installed Acronis, and used the Operating System selector and loaded up OSx86 (it said Unknown operating system, its suppose to right? I just renamed it). After all this, I start it up, and all that happens is I get the gray Apple logo, with the spinning loading indicator on the bottom, which does absolutely nothing. If anyone could help me, that would be great, because I feel as if I am failing at life right now, and its not a good feeling. Oh and if anyone wants to know my specs, they are: HP nc8430 Intel Dual Core 2.0 GHz ATI X1600 256mb A wireless card that I forget the name of, but I know isnt going to work =( If anyone could help, that would be great, And I did check everywhere I could, and there was no help, I checked almost every post for from the last 4 pages, no luck....=( Two possible avenues of problem solving: 1. If a single-core CPU is available, try that. 2. If an earlier OSX version is available [10.4.5, 10.4.6, 10.4.7], try using that bootable disc to do the formatting of the HSF partition. Then install OSX with the latest 10.4.8 install disc. 3. Use Nero to burn the 10.4.8 DVD, and let the program double-check for errors after burning. Edited December 20, 2006 by richtig Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-258770 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawnjan8 Posted December 21, 2006 Author Share Posted December 21, 2006 During installation, what packages did you choose in Customize? http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...ost&id=6330 I just clicked the whole packages, which ones am I supposed to choose? Do you think this is the reason it doesn't work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-259239 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Choose the Combo update and SSE3 Semthex. Choose 10.4.4 Loginwindow. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-259314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sekixx Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 i installed it in nc8430 but it fails with these config! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-261709 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sekixx Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 (edited) Here the crash using shemtex Edited December 26, 2006 by sekixx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-261718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-TiLT- Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 Well this panic tells you, that the IOPCCardFamily.kext made trouble. I think in every guide around here it is mentioned to take it out. Then there is that ACPIPlatform.kext causing troubles, what happens sometimes if you use the Apple Combo update. Try JaS combos from demonoid instead. Last thing is the IOPCIFamily.kext, but I wonder why it crashed. At least I think it was a crash from a dependency to the other kexts that crashed. And you shold consider using IOATAFamily.kext and AppleSMBIOS.kext from Paulicat. P.S.: I might be totally wrong, but I would say, better use the guides than experimenting. Especially, if you are not used to that stuff. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-261755 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sekixx Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 The problem is no only on this...i tried to install twenty times or more...the dvd fails, hangs at variable points of installation (tested same dvd in vaio FS115 and vaio SZ3XP and worked perfectly) can be a problem of this notebook... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36172-dudes-this-is-not-cool/#findComment-262217 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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