sgx Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Hello I am trying to install 10.4.8 and im getting a strange problem i cannot seem to find help with. I have an ASUS P5W DH Deluxe motherboard with a 320gb seagate barracuda sata drive. This drive is connected to a ICH7R controller. Xp works without any problem. The osx86 isntallation goes through fine and when it restarts it gives me the error "error loading operating system". I tried changing the ide controller mode to AHCI instead of standard ide and that did not help. The only way i can boot into osx is to put in the installation cd and boot with it. There is also a JMicron JMB363 controller on my motherboard and when i connect the drive to it i get the same error. HELP!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37304-strange-sata-issue/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
japhex Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 (edited) That's not exactly what you want but if you're going to dual boot you can edit boot.ini from xp bootmanager at the end with: c:\chain0="Mac OSX" And get the chain0 file from the install dvd, you can also press f8 quickly after booting osx for choosing the boot partition if it's not active. Edited December 31, 2006 by japhex Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37304-strange-sata-issue/#findComment-265541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgx Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 when i try to use chain0 i get chain booting error. I cannot press f8 because it never even starts darwin bootloader Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37304-strange-sata-issue/#findComment-265605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renard45 Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 where did you connect the sata drive to the red port? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37304-strange-sata-issue/#findComment-265618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgx Posted January 1, 2007 Author Share Posted January 1, 2007 the ICH7R had a red port (sata1) and the Jmicron had a black port and i tried both with the same issue Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37304-strange-sata-issue/#findComment-265805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgx Posted January 1, 2007 Author Share Posted January 1, 2007 strangly enough chain0 never worked for me after 10.4.1. I have always tried to use it and it never works. Am i suppost to modify anything in it? I just place it in C and change my boot.ini Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37304-strange-sata-issue/#findComment-265806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 what did you end up installing (version/distro)? maybe you're using some weird version of IOATAFamily. i have my winxp drive in ICH7 port 1 and my osx drive in port 2. anyways, it seems like maybe your osx partition isnt blessed or set to active, how did you format it and setup the partition? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37304-strange-sata-issue/#findComment-265815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgx Posted January 31, 2007 Author Share Posted January 31, 2007 im using Jas 10.4.8 with semthex, i have 1 hd with both xp and vista on it - could that be the problem???? and the osx partition is set to active.. il re-download os x and hope for the best but this does not explain why chain0 never worked for me.. any suggestions? btw i see u have a E6400 at 3.2ghz, obviosly overclocked like crazy.. i heard that overclocking a care 2 duo is a long procedure, is that true? Also i hear that your going to need an insane cooling system - is that also true? what do you have for cooling? (I have a E6600 at 2.6ghz and want ot overclock) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37304-strange-sata-issue/#findComment-289771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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