Shawon Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 (edited) Alright so I downloaded the OSX 10.4.8 JaS release, burned it to a DVD, and installed it on my comp. It is a Pentium 4, 1.8 GHz, 1gb RAM and it is a SSE2 processor so I'm assuming the compatibility should be fine.. I have two hard drives, one is the master which has XP on it and the other is a Seagate 160gb one which is set as a slave which I installed OSX on. So I booted up the DVD, went into the OSX installation and installed it fine, after that it says computer will restart, so I restarted and took out the DVD and it wouldn't boot up OSX, it would just boot up XP. Wouldn't boot up OSX or show the Darwin boot screen. I also tried changing the OSX hard drive to master and when I do that and installed again, restarted and booted it would just stay at the beginning screen, I think the diagnostics screen where it just shows hardware info and it would just stay there and not boot up. Anybody know what the problem is? I really need help. I checked around the forums and saw a few people having similiar problems, but didn't see any solutions. I read to do the -v boot thing, so I pressed F8, typed in -v and pressed Enter and it just booted the DVD and went to the installation thing again. I took some pics of it incase that helps. Top pic is near the first lines and the last pic is the last line. If you can help I'd really appreciate it, thanks. I just want it to boot up OSX and then finish that installation, I've already installed like almost 10 times, still didn't work. Also, I have not seen the Apple logo that it should show at the bootup, it always just shows what I posted pics of, even without doing the -v boot. Edited February 13, 2007 by Shawon Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42281-installed-1048-jas-but-doesnt-boot-up/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trolly Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 (edited) i have the same problem my cursor stays on the screen and keeps loading, but nothing happened Edited February 13, 2007 by Trolly Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42281-installed-1048-jas-but-doesnt-boot-up/#findComment-302136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawon Posted February 13, 2007 Author Share Posted February 13, 2007 yeah same for me, anybody have any idea whats wrong and how to fix it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42281-installed-1048-jas-but-doesnt-boot-up/#findComment-302157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Try in safe mode? If that doesn't work, reinstall with the bare minimum you need (without Natit or whatever you may have). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42281-installed-1048-jas-but-doesnt-boot-up/#findComment-302275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawon Posted February 14, 2007 Author Share Posted February 14, 2007 yeah i've tried safemode, thats with -x right? it just loads the install again also yeah i've installed with the bare minimum but someone told me i need the intel patch so i dont think i did that. on the install when i go to custom theres a thing that says intel...kexts or something like that, is that the patch? im gonna try to reinstall with that checked see if it works. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42281-installed-1048-jas-but-doesnt-boot-up/#findComment-302307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
srs2388 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 You need the intel patch if you have the intel chip... mine has the same error... im just going to download a different version 10.4.6. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42281-installed-1048-jas-but-doesnt-boot-up/#findComment-302315 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeroxcape Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 If you have a single blinking cursor in the top left corner of your screen, this may help: I solved the problem by reinstalling 10.4.8. A) When you are in Disk Utility partitioning the drive, make sure you click the entire hard drive and not just the partition with free space. Click the partition tab. Under Volume Scheme - change it from "Current" to "1 Partition". This helped me When installing, make sure you click the "Customize" button on the installation screen. Check either Intel OR AMD - not both. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42281-installed-1048-jas-but-doesnt-boot-up/#findComment-302327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmw Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 where u find 10.4.8 i found 10.4.1>< Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42281-installed-1048-jas-but-doesnt-boot-up/#findComment-302379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawon Posted February 14, 2007 Author Share Posted February 14, 2007 got 10.4.8 off Demonoid and IT WORKED! i did wat zeroxcape suggested (thanks!). on the partition changed it to 1 partition and then installed it again with the intel kernel and it worked Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42281-installed-1048-jas-but-doesnt-boot-up/#findComment-302464 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trolly Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 how can i acces disk utility? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42281-installed-1048-jas-but-doesnt-boot-up/#findComment-302601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Once the Intallation DVD is running you can access Disk Utility from the menu. Just be careful with Disk that have other partitions because if you repartition the disk the other partitions are erased. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42281-installed-1048-jas-but-doesnt-boot-up/#findComment-302940 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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