Balamut Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Hi First: I want to say thank you to the community of this board for all the effort they put in. Second: I'm experiencing the weirdest issue I've ever faced I have Fujitsu Laptop (n6210) Pentium M 750 1GB Mem. ATI x600 if I use dd tool to mount img file, Mac OS boots perfectly(No Rosetta or High Resolution Though) But every time I try to put Dev. DVD in it and try to boot it gives me ./com.apple.Boot.plist cannot be found (I have couple of Dev. DVD's patched differently all of them give me the same problem). Also I was wondering is there a way to make darwin understand Vesa 3.0 because I believe my x600 is vesa 3.0 Any input will be appreciated Thanks a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatmeimadanish Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 bump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Mike Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 same problem here. tried it on eleven different computers, all. giving up like this. Hi First: I want to say thank you to the community of this board for all the effort they put in. Second: I'm experiencing the weirdest issue I've ever faced I have Fujitsu Laptop (n6210) Pentium M 750 1GB Mem. ATI x600 if I use dd tool to mount img file, Mac OS boots perfectly(No Rosetta or High Resolution Though) But every time I try to put Dev. DVD in it and try to boot it gives me ./com.apple.Boot.plist cannot be found (I have couple of Dev. DVD's patched differently all of them give me the same problem). Also I was wondering is there a way to make darwin understand Vesa 3.0 because I believe my x600 is vesa 3.0 Any input will be appreciated Thanks a lot. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam0r Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 I got that once. Turned out that the image got corrupted (god knows how) when i unrarred it. Try unrarring it again (You do have the original rar's right?) and then DDing it again. Make sure the total inputs and outputs matches up to the ones in the guide. //edit Sorry, Misread the post. I had that once too (How unfortunate I am!). Turned out the DVD just got burned badly. Either that or when I hex edited it, I didnt save it properly. You could varify the ISO to the burnt DVD to make sure they're the same. I've no idea how to do this though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
websuperman Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 I am having the same issue. Going to try burning the disc again. The file is present in the iso. I can find very little information on this viper install dvd. I will be searching more tonight but if anyone has any good sources, it would be much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
websuperman Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 I burned the disc again with no luck. I have tried just about every boot option I can think of. If I press enter to go through the install without waiting on the timer I get to agree to the WTF Eula but have nowhere to go when it wants me to select a volume as nothing is listed. I did partition the drive prior to attempting to run setup with id=af as well. Looking for another method for native install..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
websuperman Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 I was able to install by zapping the drive totally clean with no partitions, pressing enter to install rather than waiting for the timeout, and using the disk utitlity in the setup to set the drive up for installation. HP Pavillion ze4900 laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaRDaWaY Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 hi, i have the same problem, file not found, how yo do it? you install dvd on a clear hd? thanks you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixding Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 last night i got this error for the first time when i booted OSX in VMW with only 88m rem, after i had tweaked the memory to 192m, the error disappeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miranda363 Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I had this problem with VMWare but what I did was press enter before the loader had finished counting down and the problem disappeared Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkylin Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 And then ,what did u do next? I had this problem with VMWare but what I did was press enter before the loader had finished counting down and the problem disappeared And then what did u do next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealRemnant Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 All you need to do is hit a key to go to boot line and hit enter again. I've been experiencing this with 10.4.3 DVD in VMWare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mortis Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Wierd!: I get that error message when booting natively on my notebook, but not using VMWare. I don´t get the message eithe in my desktop. The only difference I see i that laptop uses SATA and Desktop PATA. VMWare emulates PATA I use the patched 10.4.1 Install DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeye632 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 When i first install mac os x x86 with dvd disk.i also come across this problem.than i download another dvd disk.but this time i didn't burned it on dvd disk,i used VM,and all are right.after installation,i put the first dvd(the can't install one),and it can installed this time. so you can try it in VM,good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omerta Posted November 13, 2005 Share Posted November 13, 2005 I get the same error message everytime I reboot the second time (i can reboot once without problems) after a successful installation, that's quite weird... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronet Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 i am having this same problem using JaS patch on my Acer aspire. Any suggestions? Will hitting F8 when booting from DVD help? thx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ole2 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Mac_OS_X_10.4.6_x86_Install_DVD_(JaS).iso doesn't work for me (Acer Aspire 9500, HDD is slave, DVD is master, 1Gb RAM) ./com.apple.Boot.plist cannot be found always happened (tried different DVD disks, "-v" option after F8 didn't helped too) maybe issue with DVD as master and HDD as slave? (seems like typical to some Acer laptops) finally managed to install JAS through VmWare Report.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackCH Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Same problem here! on a Toshiba Satellite A60. Im pretty shure the disk works 'cos i've used to install 10.4.6 on my desktop. Is the 10.4.6 Myz.iso. "/com.apple.Boot.plist cannot be found" every time I try to install from the DVD. Any solution for this? EDIT: I think is an speed issue. The dvd unit might be too slow? It's a Mat{censored}a DVD-RAM UJ-820S.... Maybe I should upgrade the firmware EDIT 2: Well, If I use VMware the DVD boots without problems. Strange, no? Anyway I manage to installed natively from VMware to one of my partitions (an AF partition made with DISKPART) from within XP.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hknight Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 same problem (apple.boot.plist...) my iso that I burn through ultraiso is 4.37 gb, but after the dvd is burned it says the cd is only like 182 kb with no free space and a hybrid iso format. core 2 duo e6400 320 wd caviar sata 1 gb corsair xms 800 Could this have anything to do with jumpers on the hdd or dvd burner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hknight Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Also, Disk Director 10 OS Selector (Retail) does not boot even windows xp. It goes to a black screen for over 15 min so far. Even if I skip it (F6) it won't boot. The only way to get into win xp again, is to deactivate os selector. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvinder Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Hye everyone! I am having the same problems, the dvd boots up correctly in my desktop which is also acer but not in my laptop. I have Acer Aspire 5504WXMi (SSE2) and I get that same error: ./com.apple.Boot.plist cannot be found no matter whatever boot option i insert from the F8 boot screen. The Boot menu is kind of secured by one of the software came already installed on the laptop from Insyde. Please let me know if anyone could make it run on my laptop please, I am desparately in need of osx86 on it! I am trying to install the 10.4.8 Jas dvd, I have both the ppf patched dvd as well as the multipatch dvd with the ich7, defiant , ppf integrated! Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandros7 Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 I have the same problem... I have a gigabyte ds3.. uff uff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicknowsky Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 "/com.apple.Boot.plist cannot be found" This is the same darn message I keep getting It is driving me crazy I cant install it at all THat message is all I can get, Now when I dont choose Boot Options -v They Gry Apple Screen appears, blank for a second then the Spinning timer appears, I still hear the DVD drive spinning then it stops!!! a few seconds after that I get a STOP SMOKING logo or sign that goes across the Apple logo and from NOTHING, but like I said the DVD drive stops spinning very quickly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandros7 Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 can anyone help us with this "/com.apple.Boot.plist cannot be found" ?? is it a jmicron patch needed or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanbin Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 I ve encountered the same problem last night. However, I tried to boot with an external USB DVD-ROM and it worked fine. My laptop is Acer 9500. Hope this could help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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