cwestpha Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I set my BIOS to ACHI (only way to get it to see a SATA hard drive) and reboot. I install it off of a LaCie DVD burner (USB) since the PATA added on my D965 board causes panics. I install with -v -cpus=1 and all goes well. Once it reboots however it comes up saying no boot drive detected, or there is a single flashing underscore in the corner of the screen as if it cant find the boot loader. the Darwin loader doesnt even run. Any ideas? See sig for full specs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tronica Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I too have the same problem, so i'm stuck with 10.4.7, and i found tons of guides to upgrade to 10.4.8 but i don't know which one to choose. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-272315 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwestpha Posted January 9, 2007 Author Share Posted January 9, 2007 Interesting, there is a 200 MB EFI partition at the start of the hard drive. Does it detect some of the new 9x5 chipset based mobo as being a regular mac and hence installs an EFI based bootloader instead of a BIOS bootloader and hence cant be booted into by anything but a regular mac? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-272367 Share on other sites More sharing options...
asapreta Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I had this same problem after installing this new 10.4.8 release onto vmware. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-272419 Share on other sites More sharing options...
erk Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 I have a similar problem where it gives an ACPI driver missing error and panic on an IBM Thinkpad R52 after doing the install with no errors using the JaS.10.4.8.AMD.Intel.SSE2.SSE3.iso image. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-272440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwestpha Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 thing is i get no errors or panics. it just doesnt find the bootloader. I seriously think the installer is setting it up as if it was an efi based machine. anyone know what I would need to enter if I tried to force boot it using a GRUB install or something along that line? I honestly think that my problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-273921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Yeah for some reason, 10.4.8 is trying to install the guid partion map with efi on a mbr machine. Same happens to me. EDIT: think i figured it out, 10.4.8 disk util will only do guid. So use a earlier disk utility to get it right partition map. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-282219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMeanie Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 I am having the same problem after finishing the install of 10.4.8. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-282406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
m@rco Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Me too..... :( and it seem I'm not the only one Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-282975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
videoguru Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 I dont think this is only a 965 problem as I have an Msi 945 and all goes well until the reboot. try booting with the dvd in the drive and set to boot from dvd . this has worked for me but I am not sure how to repair the boot loader on the drive... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-282984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
m@rco Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 try booting with the dvd in the drive and set to boot from dvd How do I do this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-283137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zu1u Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 I have the exact same problem.. the install process goes along just fine but when i reboot.. it just won't read the HDD, no activity, nothing.. just the flashing underscore.. i tried unpluging the ps2 devices, disabling legacy usb, nothing worked.. I'm on an Althon x64 3000+ SSE2 with an Asus A8N-Sli motherboard, any help would be greatly appreciated Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-285591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
coucou Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 i have exactly the same issue. underscore flashing on top left. When i put the dvd 10.4.8 in the DVD drive i type F8 and it boot fine .(i install osx with a dvd drive which is in an usb box external)i don't have dvd drive in ide or sata slot (asrock conroe 945-dvi) i have two drive and an ide drive in my hackintosh. How to solve this issue ? any idea ? i 'm trying to do an fdisk tonight. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-297157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandronic Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 (edited) Same here, I've tested jas 10.4.8 on two systems with the same effect. When I boot nothing happens ... nada, niente. I've used an 80gb ATA HDD, and in Disk Utility, I've selected the whole HDD and then Erase, then continue in the installer. XP reports the partition is GPT, and Linux says there are two partitions: one is 200mb, and the other one is the rest of the disk. Any ideeas what to do next? Is there any way to partition the disk before installation in Windows/Linux so that I don't have to use Disk Utility? Configuration: - Motherboard: Gigabyte, Intel 865PE - Processor: Intel Pentium 4, 2.4ghz - Video: Nvidia GeForce 2 MX400/64 MB - Network: SURECOM EP-320X-R 100/10/M PCI - Audio: AC '97, onboard - Memory: 512 MB Edited February 8, 2007 by pandronic Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-297189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 why don't you read the entire thread? use an older dvd to prepare the disk, and then install 10.4.8 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-297193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandronic Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 (edited) My bad. Trying 10.4.7 now. Still It would have been easier to repartition in an OS that I already have than download another 3gb Edited February 8, 2007 by pandronic Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-297210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandronic Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 (edited) Ok, I've managed to resolve the problem. I've created a new empty HFS+ partition with the free trial of MacDrive. I managed to boot my new OS X installation, but after a while of loading there is a problem and it tells me to restart. There are no further details. Is there a way to get more info (like a safe mode or a debugging mode)? Also there is another problem - if I take the installation DVD from the drive - than it tells me - NO BOOT DISK ... PRESS ENTER, but if I let the DVD in the drive, and it boots from the DVD, then it boots from the HDD. Anyway this second problem is not such a big deal. Any ideeas for the first one? Edited February 8, 2007 by pandronic Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-297323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 -v Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-297329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandronic Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 sorry to be such a pain in the a**, but it's really weird. First - I went in BIOS and set the first and only boot device as harddisk, I take any CD/DVD out of the drive and reboot. Strangely this is what I get: I doublechecked ... it's set to boot from the harddisk. I've swaped the HDDs later and when I boot XP from the other drive, it makes no attempt to boot from CD. I can even leave a bootable CD in the drive and nothing happens. So ... I put in the drive the installation DVD. I get this: If I press ENTER, the installer starts, if I press F8, i get this: If I type -v [ENTER] here, again the installer starts, as expected, probably in debug mode. The strange part comes next. If I don't press either ENTER or F8 and wait for the countdown to finish, the freshly installed Mac OS X starts: And finally, after 10-20 seconds, of disk activity I get this: Now I'm really lost. Ideeas? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-297368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMeanie Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 (edited) I tried the old DVD trick didn't help me. I use 10.4.5 I think the Jas version is junk. Edited February 8, 2007 by GreenMeanie Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-297433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattmon Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 This problem is caused by the <graphical> version of Disk Utility on the JaS 10.4.8, and only appears to affect certain SATA drives/controllers. There is no need to download any other install DVD version or such, just open terminal once the 10.4.8 install DVD boots, and manually partition with diskutil using the "MBRFormat" argument. For example: diskutil disk2 1 MBRFormat "Journaled HFS+" Volume_Name would create a new MBR single partition scheme on /dev/disk2, and then format /dev/disk2s0 as Journaled HFS+, consuming the whole physical drive. google "man diskutil" mbrformat for details on other configs... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38155-1048-installs-fine-but-doesnt-boot-from-hd/#findComment-300041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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