h4ck1n705h Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 So I downloaded and burned the OS X 10,4,8 Jas ISO onto a DVD+R and I can't even get it to boot. When I get the option to press any key, -v, or ?, I have tried all three but it starts booting and then suddenly restarts. It keeps doing this over and over again. I have an Asus G1s notebook with Core 2 Duo T7500, 2gb 5300, 160gb 5400RPM SATA hard drive, 256MB Geforce 8600M GT, and the dvd drive is HL-DL-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20L ATA(straight out of device manager). Any help would be greatly appreciated. BTW, this forum is great, I have been reading it for a while but just registered. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56407-1048-jas-dvd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmonkey Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 I have exactly the same problem with uphuck 10.4.9 v1.2 and also a santa rosa asus notebook. Z53 Series with T7500. The hardware reboots right before the graphic mode would start. The boot option -v didn't help. What can i do? I expected os x to boot, because the new mac book pros have the same cpu :/ any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56407-1048-jas-dvd/#findComment-403430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
h4ck1n705h Posted July 7, 2007 Author Share Posted July 7, 2007 I am downloading the 10.4.9 v1.3 DVD right now and will post if it is any better. Otherwise, I think we may have to wait for 10.4.10 v1.4 since that will probably include the MacBook Pro Update. Ok I got it to get past that, and now it gets stuck at the ".../com.Apple.boot.plist not found". The problem was with the partition I had formatted. When you create a partition DO NOT format it. Leave it as unallocated free space. Then follow the disk part steps: list disk select disk [the number of your disk] create partition primary id=af list partition select partition [the number of your new osx partition] active (if this doesn't work, try 'set active' without quotes) Before I would get an error when I did the step "create partition primary id=af", and I just ignored it, but that was the problem, I had formatted it previously to the wrong format. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56407-1048-jas-dvd/#findComment-403435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmonkey Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 how did you get it to boot? i get the same error with any release i download. maybe it has problems with my graphics chip Geforce 8600GS M (like linux, i had to boot the setup in gfx safe mode). is there a posibility to boot the shell only and install it from there, or see a log where it exactly crashes? there has to be another option than -v ^^ (the option ? is buggy too, it only shows some weird symbols and no info at all) i have also tried JaS 10.4.8 and uphuck 10.4.9 V1.3, exact the same thing. maybe i record my screen with a camera to post it here Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56407-1048-jas-dvd/#findComment-407087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
h4ck1n705h Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 try booting with cpus=1, meaning only use one core if that takes you further but still hangs, try booting with cpus=1 -x, where -x adds safe mode Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56407-1048-jas-dvd/#findComment-407640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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