jedavis1 Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 I have a problem... I will try to elaborate... I have installed the JaS 10.4.8 AMD & Intel SSE2 & SSE3 DVD on my system. I have a Via chipset with a Radeon 7600GT Video card. Everything works... When I first installed, I installed to a spare 20GB HD on a SATA2IDE convertor. Everything worked great: AC97 sound, CI/QE Sound good speed on the SATA drive... but I wanted more room. So I put the 20 on the IDE chain and used Carbon Copy Cloner to put copy to a Seagate 200GB HD on the SATA2IDE convertor... it wouldn't boot from that drive. It would boot fine from the 20GB on the IDE, so I reinstalled straight to the 200GB HD and it still wouldn't boot. It won't even get to the darwin boot loader either time. I tried puting the 200GB straight on the IDE chain and same thing... just get a blinking cursor before the darwin boot loader. The funny thing is, if I leave the 20GB hd on and go into the boot options of darwin and type in rd=disk2s1 (the 200GB drive) it will boot from the 200GB drive fine... What am I missing? Is there a problem with Seagate Drives? Is there something about larger HDs that darwin bootloader doesn't like? Some help would be appreciated. If I missed something on the search, I am sorry... I am drawing a blank as to what to search for... I tried things like Seagate boot problem, seagate large hard drive... they come up with many, many pages and I looked over the first several, but didn't find anything relavent... Thanks for any help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53030-boot-problems-on-seagate-200gb-hd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokies Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 I had the same problem most people who are doing the tutorials have a smaller hard drive then me. 320GB one. I got it to install by Part'n it with two 50 GB part'n one NTFS the other fAT 32 i left the back end open and didnt worry about it. Erased the second one after i put in windows now im stuck with about 70% of the drive mac os cant see. so i went back windows .................. made it fat32 part''s now im stuck because mac os cant see it still! so im screwed but at least final cut works. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53030-boot-problems-on-seagate-200gb-hd/#findComment-378421 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedavis1 Posted June 7, 2007 Author Share Posted June 7, 2007 I finally got it to work. It was in the options for partitioning/formating it when I was using Disk Utilities to erase the drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53030-boot-problems-on-seagate-200gb-hd/#findComment-379564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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