irri Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 Mac Os X 10.4.8[Jas AMD-Intel SSE1-SSE2 with PPF1 & PPF2] Asus A8N SLI Deluxe SATA HD I can boot from the DVD, see and erase the HD then start the install, but it always crashes while installing. No error, it just stops. I have tried with 3 different DVDs and downloaded the iso twice. They were all burnt with Nero at the slowest speed. Is this an Nforce SATA error? Most people with that problem don't seem to be able to see the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 .... irri? Use a IDE HD to install. You locate the problem and you know the solution. Give some more details about your hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irri Posted May 6, 2007 Author Share Posted May 6, 2007 The touble is that I only have SATA drives. Specs: Asus A8N SLI Deluxe AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2x Twinmos 512MB DDR3200 ATI Saphire Radeon X850XT 2x Maxtor 80GB SATA Drives (on the NForce Controller) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 You can use your sata hard drives after a succesful installation on IDE. Find a cheep one and instal. You are going to have this result on the picture: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irri Posted May 6, 2007 Author Share Posted May 6, 2007 Okay, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irri Posted May 7, 2007 Author Share Posted May 7, 2007 I can use a USB hard drive for the initial install? Then I guess I have to add nforce support to the installed OS and make an image of the installed OS on the SATA drive. What do I use to make the image once I have an installation running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 No. You cannot install on a USB HDD so easy. Installation can be done on FireWire. But dont complicate it, just unplug your sata Drives and use an IDE to install, the rest you ll se after that . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mami007 Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 The SATA makes error during theinstallation of Mac OS X?Really? But I can use the SATA HD to install the mac successful. I suggest you may update the BIOS/CMOS on the motherboard of your computer. It may help you to solve this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 You were just lucky. Sata and nForce chipset is not recomented compination for a succesfull installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irri Posted May 7, 2007 Author Share Posted May 7, 2007 It worked with a usb harddrive! I'm writing from it now. How to I copy to a sata drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 What is the Disc in the USB box that you use? Try reserch starting from Here . Otherwise use the blue IDE chanel with an IDE HDD to reinstall on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irri Posted May 7, 2007 Author Share Posted May 7, 2007 OSX says it's a LaCie, my Motherboard said it was a Samsung. I installed the the NForce SATA kext and my SATA drive has appeared on the desktop. I'm guessing I can't just copy the whole USB drive to the SATA drive from OSX running on the USB drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irri Posted May 7, 2007 Author Share Posted May 7, 2007 I used disk util to make a clone of the USB disk on to my SATA drive, but when I tried to boot from the SATA drive it just says: b0 error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 Disc Utility, Carbon Copy Cloner. I use that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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