kingace Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 (edited) Hello, I'm using Tubgirl's AMD 10.4.8 install dvd. I left it installing over night, and this morning it said "Software was succesfully installed." So, I clicked continue to move onto the "Finish Up" stage, but nothing happened for a long time. Someone in the IRC channel was kind enough to suggest that I simply remove the DVD and reboot, saying that the Finish Up stage was useless. When I did this, I set the BIOS to have the target hard drive (an external usb drive) boot first, but when I booted, it acted as though nothing had been installed, and I got the usual message you get when you boot an empty hard drive. However, I booted into ubuntu and checked the drive, and it had about 6 gb worth of data on it, so the installation must have been succesful. My first thought was that it was because it was a USB hard drive, but it's worked with other OS's in the past, and my bios fully supports booting to it as though it were a regular disk. Is it possible that by not allowing the Finish Up stage to take place, I somehow ruined the OS X boot loader\manager? If so, is there a way to remedy this? Suggestions are extremely welcome! Thanks in Advanced Edited December 28, 2006 by kingace Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37060-after-succesful-install-hard-drive-doesnt-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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