Mr. Bishop Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Been trying to install OSX in a dual boot with Vista. Here is the problem though... it does nothing upon loading the DVD. The installation freezes immediately after loading the kernel to begin the install process. I've been trying to figure this out now for a few days, and can only surmise that I have soemthing not properly set somewhere... but not sure where to look. Current Hardware: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Asus M2V Socket AM2 Motherboard Seagate 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G GeForce 7600 GS 512MB PCIe w/DVI/HDTV/TV-OUT 4GB DDR2 PC4200 20X DVDRW SATA I'm truly unsure as to where the problem lies, and I am really interested in figuring this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Bishop Posted July 27, 2007 Author Share Posted July 27, 2007 Also... here is another interesting thing that I have noticed. I'm not sure if it means anything yet... but when I burn the ISO file to a DVD, the DVD does not read as having over 4GB of information on it. It reads as having 478KB of information on it... Normally, I would think this is not normal, but I am not sure about it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Re-burn the DVD using the slowest speed. It's not weird that you only see that much when viewing it in Windows. Most of those files are for Macintosh anyway. I thought that myself when I first burnt JaS 10.4.8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Bishop Posted July 27, 2007 Author Share Posted July 27, 2007 Okay, I burned it on the slowest speed before I even got this response... but the problem isn't so much of the amount that can be seen by Windows, it's that when you look at the underside of the DVD, there isn't anything remotely close to 4GB of information burned onto it. I have a strip that is used that is about a quarter of an inch wide. I'll still reboot and run really quick to see if it had an effect, but it's still annoyingly small compared to the information that *should* be on there and used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 What installer disc are you trying to use? Uphuck's most recent releases are only about 1.3gb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Bishop Posted July 27, 2007 Author Share Posted July 27, 2007 The installer I am using is 1.3, which is 4.3GB of information. I can't use the 1.4 at the moment because I cannot find the universal or AMD, only Intel. Since I am running an AMD processor... I've been looking for that version. However, I've been trying to use what I have available. I have JaS 10.4.8 and I have Uphuck 10.4.9 1.3 -- both burn the exact same amount of data onto a DVD. Here is the most annoying part -- I can install onto VMWare from the DVD, or so it seems. I am able to get past the initial part noted above, to start installing. However, doing it outside of VMWare is not possible at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Bishop Posted July 28, 2007 Author Share Posted July 28, 2007 I take it that no one has any suggestions as to a solution to this problem? I'd really like to be able to install this, but I just can't seem to be able to work around my problem as noted above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 OK, it sounds as if you have a corrupt image file. When you d/l a torrent, it will often create a temp file on your hard drive showing the total size of the intended download, even though only a portion of the file has been downloaded. If there is any kind of corruption...even a momentary lost connection...the file can be damaged and appear completely downloaded when it's not. Have you tried opening your image file with something like magiciso to look at its contents? I think you have to re-download the image once again. Sorry about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Crowhurst Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 I've had the same trouble with Asus M2V. nothing i tried worked, i even tried to install to a HD using VMWare but OSX just crashed on boot. in the end i got a new motherboard (Asrock AM2NF6G-VSTA) and now OSX works . although OSX 10.4.8 doesn't support the SATA or Network controller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Bishop Posted July 29, 2007 Author Share Posted July 29, 2007 OK, it sounds as if you have a corrupt image file. When you d/l a torrent, it will often create a temp file on your hard drive showing the total size of the intended download, even though only a portion of the file has been downloaded. If there is any kind of corruption...even a momentary lost connection...the file can be damaged and appear completely downloaded when it's not. Have you tried opening your image file with something like magiciso to look at its contents? I think you have to re-download the image once again. Sorry about that. It's not the image downloade... it really couldn't be. If it were a bad image, then it would not install on VMWare either. I'm inclined to think that Gary might be right. It might be due to the M2V motherboard/bios. It's the only thing that is making any sense. I can install on VMWare where it emulates a motherboard and bios, but when I try to install directly to the HDD, it stops on Kernel load. Oh well... it was worth a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypergatack Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 macdrive can check if u have the amount of data cos t reads hfs+ disks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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