tehnick Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 I'm having some trouble getting OS X to boot on my AMD system: First, I took out all drives and put only the one I want OS X on (to avoid any boot problems) -- Which happens to be a WD 40GB IDE hdd. Second, I booted up to the DVD, formatted HFS+, installed to drive (no problems). So now, supposedly, I have a standard 10.4.8 working OS X installation installed on a single drive. When it's booted up after install however, it doesn't boot up OS X -- or the drive for that matter. It seems like it's ignoring the partition, when the drive is clearly setup to boot first priority. I never get past that and it never attempts to boot anything, I've tried messing around in BIOS and I double checked everything to make sure the hard drive is set to boot. I can plugin or install a windows hard drive in place of it and it will boot up normally, but the OS X installation/hard drive does absolutely nothing. There is no Darwin/OS X errors, etc. because it never gets to actually booting the OS. Any help at all would be appreciated Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37189-osx-installed-not-booting-into-osx/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
np101137 Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 (edited) Try setting the OSx86 partition active. There are tutorials on the site for that, so search for it Edited December 30, 2006 by np101137 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37189-osx-installed-not-booting-into-osx/#findComment-264565 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehnick Posted December 30, 2006 Author Share Posted December 30, 2006 Okay I figured out the problem. WHen i put the drive into this computer to be formatted using the installer, it was previously in a Mac and therefore had the Apple partition table... which doesn't boot up with OSX86 boxes. After formatting a couple times, I ended up with a EFI/GUID partition table and that's when I noticed. So I used the terminal to create a new partition table for the drive making sure it was using MBR, then I put the HFS+ partition on it, & installed. No problems booting up after that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37189-osx-installed-not-booting-into-osx/#findComment-264696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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