Panik Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 (JaS 10.4.8) I purchased an external optical drive allowing me to boot the installer on an nForce 4 rig. IDE HDD is on my primary channel. I diskpart create partition primary id=af and set as active. Installer can see my other external fat32 HDD, but cannot see my internal IDE HDD. I feel like I'm so close. I've tried VMware but Darwin throws a GRUB Error 22 when I try the physical disk method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mspr Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 Hi, did you correctly set your HD jumper (try to set it as master) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panik Posted June 4, 2007 Author Share Posted June 4, 2007 yes it is set as master, bios confirms that. i think the problem is that the optical drive is usb. and the optical has to be on the same channel ide channel as the HDD? native boot would be so nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mspr Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 yes it is set as master, bios confirms that. i think the problem is that the optical drive is usb. and the optical has to be on the same channel ide channel as the HDD? native boot would be so nice. Hi, the optical USB drive shouldn't be a problem... The first time I installed OSX I had only the main HD on my IDE channel and an optical drive connected by USB port and everything worked fine. Now I have the optical drive (DVD writer) on the first IDE channel and the main HD (IDE HD) on the second IDE channel. You can try to connect your HD on the second IDE channel leaving the first one free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panik Posted June 19, 2007 Author Share Posted June 19, 2007 I can confirm that this works. Thx for the response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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