king_kilr Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 (edited) I just installed OSX 10.4.8 on my computer to a second HDD, now when I try to boot up and set that HDD(its IDE, my main HDD is SATA) to Boot 1, all it does is sit at a black screen with a "cursor"(the little line that shows where you are in the text), it doesn't say anything. It installed fine so I don't know what the problem is. System Specs: AMD Athlon 64 (SSE2) ASUS K8V SE Dlx(Via K8T800) Thanks in advance. EDIT: If this belongs in Installation a mod can move it, or I can repost if someone lets me know. Edited March 6, 2007 by king_kilr Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44404-just-installed-wont-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
king_kilr Posted March 6, 2007 Author Share Posted March 6, 2007 Anyone have any ideas? It does this regardless of whether or not the SATA drive is plugged in. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44404-just-installed-wont-boot/#findComment-317965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 You may want to search, I have seen this in other topics before. I can't remember the solution though (if there is one)..hold on.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44404-just-installed-wont-boot/#findComment-318001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
king_kilr Posted March 6, 2007 Author Share Posted March 6, 2007 I tried searching, unfortunately no results, probably because I couldn't really figure out what to search. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44404-just-installed-wont-boot/#findComment-318008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
king_kilr Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share Posted March 7, 2007 I just tried something someone mentioned in another thread, to boot to the install CD, press F8, and enter in rd=disk0s2 this got me to boot, and it would play the Welcome video, however after it played the video it would crash to the crash reporter and then the video would play over again, in an endless cycle(I think endless i only watched 3 times before I powered down). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44404-just-installed-wont-boot/#findComment-318310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedna Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I have the same problem. Look here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...DiskUtility+MBR Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44404-just-installed-wont-boot/#findComment-318507 Share on other sites More sharing options...
king_kilr Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share Posted March 7, 2007 So basically I apply this to the .iso, reburn the dvd, reinstall, and then I am good? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44404-just-installed-wont-boot/#findComment-318566 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluetrax Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 i had the same issue when booting. I installed it to my usb hd, everything went well...when it finished installing it rebooted, so i selected my boot menu : boot from usb-hdd, and nothing...it continued to load windows from my other hard drive. So i unplugged my 2 sata hds, and my windows ide hd, which sucks, but it worked. I'm trying to figure out why i cant boot my usb hd with my other hard drives plugged in. I thought it was something to do with the MBR, but I set that on my usb drive, and even gave boot priority to the usb drive. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44404-just-installed-wont-boot/#findComment-320076 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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