Installing 10.4.1

[nanoblade]

I finally got 10.4.1 installed natively using the profit42.com guide. It was working fine, then i tried to increase the drive size. Restored the 6Gb image to the bigger 20Gb partition, and managed to boot off this bigger 20Gb partition, but now the problems....

 

I wanted to get rid of the older 6Gb partition, and stick it on the end of my Windows partition. However doing this now gives me the dreaded chain booting error!!!!!!!!

 

I don't have a clue what to do anymore, i erased the old partition with disk utility, then booted back into windows and deleted it, and connected it to my windows partition. So in "theory" i have exactly the same situation as i did originally but just with a bigger OSX partition. How can it not work??? (diagram below)

 

Please if anyone knows what's going on let me know.

 

p.s. my windows installation is now screwed too for some reason? Keep getting to different stages in the boot, sometimes just login and sometimes not even there!!??

 

EDIT: just tried setting the OSX partition active in diskpart, and now my entire computer is screwed (Error loading operating system). Guess i'm gonna have to start from scratch?

 

Thanks Guys

 

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Before:

 

---------Windows----------/-------OSX 6Gb--------/---------------Unrecognised-----------------/

 

to:

 

---------Windows----------/-------OSX 6Gb--------/-----------------OSX 20Gb-------------------/

 

booting off either partition in this case worked fine.

 

Now:

 

---------------------Windows------------------------/-----------------OSX 20Gb-------------------/

 

which for some peculiar reason doesn't work?

Edited December 9, 2005 by tetmin

[pc_guru]

I guess than you did instal it using "tiger-x86.tar.bz2" and did follow a guide using the infamous "chain0" method. Well, i tried once to resize my 6.5 GB partition into 15 GB, but that wasn't possible, so i did resize again that partition into 6.5 GB and dd again the image into that partition. All did result ok, but i'm not using any chain0 method, i use Darwin Bootloader instead of. Is the most simple way.

[xtraa]

i'm not using any chain0 method, i use Darwin Bootloader instead of. Is the most simple way.

 

Yes the darwin loader rocks

 

I have my OSX on a second HD, and i use both methods together. But tetmin, check if your Partition is set to

active, and also that it is not located in an extended partition. It will only boot from active. Alsotry to boot by

pressing F8 and check if the bootoption rd=disk1s1 does something positive.

 

Ah your Windows is XP or do you use some kind of Longhorn/Vista?

[nanoblade]

I can't get as far as pressing F8 as the chain0 error pops up.

 

However, i'm currently trying to get WinGrub to work and am literally on the verge of shooting myslef. If anyone can help with grub, please, please, please....

 

Thanks

[coffeelover]

To rescue your Windows installation, you could try booting off your XP CD and either use the Recovery Console to set your Windows partition active (fixboot/fixmbr) or by doing a 'Repair' Installation (not a recovery console installation, it's a step after that). Downloading a bootdisk and using fdisk on that or a Linux Live CD may also help get your Windows back.

 

With regards to 'restoring' onto a larger partition, I recommend you install Darwin on the larger partition first and then 'restore' to it - this seems to work as per this guide.

[nanoblade]

Thanks for the reply, i decided to start clean so i wiped everything and installed windows fresh. I now have grub loading from the MBR so no chain0 problems anymore. I have also just tried to follow the guide posted above....

 

However, i have new and potentially unsolvable problems......

 

I'm at the stage where i need to install Darwin onto the larger partition, i've downloaded the iso from Opendarwin.org and burnt it inside OSX, upon rebooting from the newely burnt CD i get an error:

 

can't find /com.apple.boot.plist

 

It then drops into the Darwin bootloader, which only gives me the single option of booting from some "Ethernet PXE" device, which obviously doesn't work. Also, entering any switch just sends me back to the Darwin bootloader menu?

 

Am i ever going to get this working??

 

Any responses much appreciated, thanks again.

[xtraa]

Sorry for the last hint, it was my mistake, of course you were unable to boot with F8

if you have a chain0-error

 

Ok anyway, now that you installed from scratch: to get it working, you can do it with

those things:

 

- install partition magic

- delete the partition behind XP

- reboot

 

So, check if your windows is one partition and delete the other behind it, so that you

get an unallocated free space.

 

now we make this a mac partition. In XP, start the "dosbox" console and type the

following, (without the * of course) to create a mac partition from the rest of your free

space:

 

* diskpart

* select disk 0

* create partition primary id=af

* active

 

Now you have created a mac partition in the free unallocated space. it is unformatted,

but that does not matter.

 

Normally, you should do fine, if you are inserting the 10.4.1 generic boot DVD, and

run the installer. Make sure, that during install, you use the diskutility, and then

select the partition, and click on erase. Erase is important, because this will give you

a bootsector. Finish the install, and it should work with the chain0 or inf not, with a

bootloader. I really recommend the chain0.

 

Anyway, if that does not work, then do the same again, but insert darwin disk and

follow the installation. be careful what you type, and always think about, that you

want to install it on your second partition, when it asks you.

 

After that, you should be able to boot into darwin natively, without any chain0 or

bootloader needed. If that is the case, then insert your 10.4.3. generic boot DVD

again, and do the install, but do NOT click erase this time, because you want to use

the darwin bootloader. If it forces you to erase the disk, dont worry, it will still keep

the bootloader.

 

Ok, now tell me if that worked

Edited December 9, 2005 by xtraa

[joursetranges]

i have exactly the same problem, and the dvd boots properly on an athlon xp 1800+ (but i can't install osx on it because it does not support sse2), and the problem comes as i try to boot it on my laptop, a toshiba satellite A60. So i tried what you said, but i can't do " create partition primary id=af", and i don't think it is important in my case.

 

in fact i boot on the dvd and i get

boot cd-rom type:cd-rom/non emulation booting

 

and a few seconds later:

system config file '/com.apple.Boot.pList' not found

 

if you have any idea...