dsc106 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Alright, first of all, my system specs: Amd x2 4800+ ASUS A8N-SLI Premium (nforce4) 200gb Maxtor IDE HDD (( I also have 4 SATA drives that I use under windows, but I am just using my EIDE for Mac osx86 install. )) XFX Nvidia GeForce 7800gt 256mb RAM 2gb OCZ pc3200 DDR RAM Creative Audigy 2 ZS Soundblaster I originally installed 10.4.2 last spring, and just recently have attempted to install the newer JAS 10.4.8 AMD-INTEL with PPF1 (whatever the heck ppf1 is??). FIRST I didn't clear the HDD first, I just booted from DVD to see if it would even work and then I just did an upgrade install and there were seemingly no problems. I went for the reboot, but when I tried to boot from the HDD the comp would freeze hard on the grey apple screen. I tried again using -v. Flashed a bunch of white text scrolling really fast, then black screen and a hard freeze. So I boot the DVD back in, booted from the DVD, and went through the install again... SECOND I used the Disk Utility and completely erased the disk; I told it the disk type was Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and I gave it a name of "Maxtor_200_Mac" (is there a problem with this name? Should it just be "tiger-x86"? I then installed the Jas OS 10.4.8 to that drive (the only drive available, as SATA drives are not recognized with my mobo). For the install, I selected that I wanted the AMD ATA kexts (since I have an AMD x2 4800+ venice series (with SSE3), socket 939). I did not select anything from the "common hardware" list as I do not believe that I have GMA hardware / Azilla Audio / Sigmatel Audio / any ATI card. I also do not have a laptop, and the win login thing said "intel only." I did not select anything from the titan nvidia/ATI drivers as I do not believe that I have an nv40 card (unless the GeForce 7800gt is? I thought it was a g70 series). I DID install essential software as required, printer drivers, additional fonts, language translation, and x11 (what the heck is this?). So, after the install and reboot, I went to boot from the HDD, and while my BIOS sees the HDD, I couldn't even get the screen that would show the darwin load page. The system just stopped/froze at a screen before getting to that point. SOOO..... What happen? Why can't I even attempt to load anymore? I selected that HDD to boot from from the boot manager like I always did with 10.4.2. I should mention that previously on 10.4.2 I had installed it via the image file that you transfer to the hard disk from windows (no install DVD) - the old school way. I had previously had an 8gb partition for this. Did this change something when I redid the HDD? Thanks so much for your time in reading this and responding! Dan PS more info on the HDD: -- Partition Scheme: GUID Partition Table -- Connection ID: Device 0 PSS I also tried using the startup utility within the installer to tell the system to startup using the folder on the partition where I installed. I rebooted, and from the bootloader chose the HDD I installed to put from (rather than the SATA HDD with windows or the DVD drive with the OS install DVD), and got the same result... PSSS -- I should also add: the HDD it has booted from has in the past always been the SECONDARY IDE MASTER. I swapped cables around by unplugging my CD drives, so the HDD was my only IDE device plugged in. I made it the PRIMARY MASTER. Nothing changed. Also - It shouldn't be a matter of setting a partition flag, as the drive only contains 1 partition (the OS is installed on its own physical HDDs. Windows is installed on a seperate SATA HDD, which I cannot even select as possible drive to install to or run from). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elrithranduil Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Firist insert your mac install disc. But wait until the counter reaches zero. If everything is alright your Mac HDD will start up automatically after that. So you can first check if it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted May 2, 2007 Author Share Posted May 2, 2007 Thanks - looks like I got a little excited and always hit a key. BUT, still a problem. I wait for the counter to reach zero, and now I get the following message: system config file '/com.apple.boot.plist' not found Seen this one before? Any ideas? Thanks so much. PS - I have tried booting the DVD from 2 different internal IDE drivers; one a plain DVD-ROM and the other a DVD+/-RW read/writer. Both give the same message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 Solved the com.apple.Boot.plist not found problem thanks to this thread: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...%20MBR&st=0 And JoneSi for pointing me in the right direction... quoted from a PM from him: the problem lies in the GUID partition table. While this is great for a (real) Mac, its not going to boot on a hackint0sh very well...or at all. We need to install it on an MBR type of partition. Apparently in the JaS 10.4.8 installer there is bug. If you erase a drive, it formats it with a GUID partition type, which will not work with a hackintosh... you need an MBR to boot from when running a osx86 machine. I found this wiki article helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table Hope this helps someone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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