Installation OK, but can't boot at all...

[ludodivx]

Hi, first of all, please excuse my english

I'm posting here because this OSX86 installation is driving me crazy... Tried for about 3 months, with different dvds and couldn't install.

Then, finally, changed my pc and got OSX86 Jas 10.4.8 Patched to install, but after install, reboot problem.

I reboot manually, but after the PCI listing, my OSX won't boot, it stays with a - appearing and disappearing.

If I try booting with the dvd then doing nothing at prompt, I got the line “System config file ‘/com.apple.Boot.plist’ not found”

My S.M.A.R.T is disabled, and I only have an IDE HDD master and a DVD-ROM player slave.

So I really don't get what the problem is.

I even tried to put the hdd into a USB box to plug it in on my Macbook, and the com.apple.boot.plist IS on the harddrive. That's really weird.

And finally (to add the more informations possible), my partition is a primary one.

 

If someone can help, thanks a lot Because my macbook really made me want to install OSX on my pc too

[Oracle67]

Do EXACTLY this:

*Dont chose language supot, printers drivers, X11, ONLY nessasery Intel package(if your PC is intel) or AMD package(if AMD).

[ludodivx]

Thank you for answering... I'm starting now a new install then... But the only thing I did not do is uncheck "most common hardware" and "printers"... For the rest I did exactly the same as your screens

I'll try again, maybe... And I get back to you

Thanks again

[ludodivx]

Ok, just did it. Installed in english, recreated the partition with disc utility, installed only the amd patch, but same problem. After reboot, I get the pci listing as usual, then nothing... The HDD seems to be working but no error message on screen.

[ludodivx]

Hum. New on my case lol.

When I boot with only hard drive plugged, I get a disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter error... I'll look in the forum about this error

[jesusnuno]

had the same issue i fixed it by creating "2" partitions from disk utility.

 

hope it helps.

[ludodivx]

Hum, I'm trying to, but when I create another partition then install on one of them, installation fails... Weird. Had the same problem ?

[thevoiceover]

If I try booting with the dvd then doing nothing at prompt, I got the line “System config file ‘/com.apple.Boot.plist’ not found”

 

I had this problem and it turns out (after testing about 5 different SATA drives) that is was the hard drive itself.. OSX would detect it and install on it, but not boot it. After I found a drive it would boot on though, I added the drive it wouldn't boot as a secondary and it worked fine.

 

Thx,

TVO