deleted_account Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Sorry, if this topic has been mentioned before already, I tried searching this and I couldn't find any results. However, I searched on google and did find others with the same questions, but they were never answered. /com.apple.Boot.plist not found was the error. I'm installing it on an abit ab9pro motherboard (Intel 965 Chipset), Will i need a clean new hard drive prior to installing OSx86? What can I do to go about this, approach it, what steps/process I should use, are there any precautions. Thanks so much for your time in reading this, I appreciate this a lot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43576-comapplebootplist-not-found-when-booting-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
riktor Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I got this error trying to install on a SATA drive. If this is the case then be aware a majority of Sata Drives do not boot with OSX. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43576-comapplebootplist-not-found-when-booting-help/#findComment-311990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted_account Posted February 27, 2007 Author Share Posted February 27, 2007 Wow, I just bought an ASUS SATA DVD-RW drive just to fix that problem, since I heard, for my particular motherboard there's this problem with the Jmicron IDE controller. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43576-comapplebootplist-not-found-when-booting-help/#findComment-312166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dew Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Try reformatting your hard drive, thats what I did and it worked. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43576-comapplebootplist-not-found-when-booting-help/#findComment-312269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted_account Posted February 27, 2007 Author Share Posted February 27, 2007 Try reformatting your hard drive, thats what I did and it worked. Can you (or someone), teach me how to reformat a primary drive? I know how to format secondary drives through the system tools under disk management, but I don't know how to reformat a primary. Thanks for the reply by the way. Much appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43576-comapplebootplist-not-found-when-booting-help/#findComment-312284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldrlandon93 Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 You could use a piece of software like acronis, which lets you boot into it to format a hard drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43576-comapplebootplist-not-found-when-booting-help/#findComment-312287 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dew Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Can you (or someone), teach me how to reformat a primary drive? I know how to format secondary drives through the system tools under disk management, but I don't know how to reformat a primary. Thanks for the reply by the way. Much appreciated. Just go to Control Panel + Administrator Tools + Computer Managment + On the side of the selections is Disk Management, and there it shows all your hard drives including your Primary Drives and then reformat the one where you are installing mac on. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43576-comapplebootplist-not-found-when-booting-help/#findComment-312502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted_account Posted February 28, 2007 Author Share Posted February 28, 2007 Just go to Control Panel + Administrator Tools + Computer Managment + On the side of the selections is Disk Management, and there it shows all your hard drives including your Primary Drives and then reformat the one where you are installing mac on. Now, I don't have an OS to do that, not even windows... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43576-comapplebootplist-not-found-when-booting-help/#findComment-313217 Share on other sites More sharing options...
megavolkan Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Wow, I just bought an ASUS SATA DVD-RW drive just to fix that problem, since I heard, for my particular motherboard there's this problem with the Jmicron IDE controller. So does the Sata DVD work? (installing OSX86)?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43576-comapplebootplist-not-found-when-booting-help/#findComment-313311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Now, I don't have an OS to do that, not even windows... Maybe can use the Gparted live CD for partitioning: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ckage_id=173828 hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43576-comapplebootplist-not-found-when-booting-help/#findComment-313339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted_account Posted July 26, 2007 Author Share Posted July 26, 2007 I've recentely tried the OSx86, uphuck realease for intel, revision 2, and i still get the same problem under a sata drive, it looks like this: I read in uphuck's FAQ that it could possibly be from a Jmicron controller. I can confirm that my motherboard is under an ICH8R Jmicron contoller, I'm using a SATA drive that boots off of that. I don't get to any installation screen, just the promt of the image above right after choosing to boot from cd in my bios. I've been reading around and one of the suggestions from uphuck's FAQ, says I can try booting from a USB External CD/DVD Drive source, which I have, and tried, and after choosing to boot, I still get the same prompt shown above. Any thoughts on how I can go about this from here? I do have a sata-ide controller around, that's the next suggestion i'm going to try. In the meantime, I'd like to know the solution for this problem, hopefully others can understand it better as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43576-comapplebootplist-not-found-when-booting-help/#findComment-415208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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