pannekoek Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Booting from the internal DVDplayer is not possible. I get the /com.apple.Boot.plist problem. My laptop is a Dell Latitude D505 with an Intel graphics card, Intel IDE controller(82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller) and Pentium M 1.60 GHZ processor. The native OS is Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. I also use Innotek's VirtualBox. In VirtualBox XP is working fine, so I made an extra machine with the following configuration: General Name OSXtest OS Type Windows XP Base Memory 256 MB Video Memory 8 MB Boot Order Floppy, CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk ACPI Enabled IO APIC Disabled Hard Disks Primary Master OSXtest.vdi [Normal, 3.70 GB] Floppy Not mounted CD/DVD-ROM Image 10.4.9_Install_DVD_v1.4i.iso Audio Adapter Null Audio Driver Network Adapter 0 NAT USB Controller Device Filters 0 (0 active) Remote Display Disabled I started the virtual machine. The same problem. It's nt possible to boot from the DVD. Then I copied the iso to the harddisk, changed the boot device in VirtualBox. Same error. Attached the screenshots. Who knows a solution? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58876-dell-latitude-d505-uphuck-1049_install_dvd_v14i/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
iugo Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 You may want to md5 your disk to be sure you're not corrupted. search the forums here for your "mac distro" (JAS, Uphuck, etc) Try setting your virtual drive disk mac partition to bootable. I am not sure how you'd do it with your virtual setup but on a native install you could do it like this: boot from dvd press: F8 type: -v -s (puts you in single user mode) type: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (may be different depending on partitions you have) do you see an asterisk in front of a partition? that makes the partition bootable. to do this you'll type: flag 1 (or whatever number represent the partition where you have your apple install) type: quit (this saves changes to MBR) type: reboot remove dvd and see if that helps on boot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58876-dell-latitude-d505-uphuck-1049_install_dvd_v14i/#findComment-419960 Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux4guru Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 You may want to md5 your disk to be sure you're not corrupted. search the forums here for your "mac distro" (JAS, Uphuck, etc) Try setting your virtual drive disk mac partition to bootable. I am not sure how you'd do it with your virtual setup but on a native install you could do it like this: boot from dvd press: F8 type: -v -s (puts you in single user mode) type: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (may be different depending on partitions you have) do you see an asterisk in front of a partition? that makes the partition bootable. to do this you'll type: flag 1 (or whatever number represent the partition where you have your apple install) type: quit (this saves changes to MBR) type: reboot remove dvd and see if that helps on boot. When I typed in fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (It just take straight to the fdisk utility). Anyhow, I update and even reinit and set flag 1, write and quit and reboot. I still get the same thing... something about missing the System.boot.plist file Any idea? Thanks, Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58876-dell-latitude-d505-uphuck-1049_install_dvd_v14i/#findComment-440027 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErEr Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 com boot plist not found error, is just related with correct partitionning, make sure after you partition disk there is no special section on HD to have 200k data. if you re format to utilise whole disk the error will be lost, after that you may have b0 error, which is related making disk aktive using Fdisk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58876-dell-latitude-d505-uphuck-1049_install_dvd_v14i/#findComment-440070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux4guru Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 What should I do before the installation? I kept on getting this message everytime I reinstall from DVD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58876-dell-latitude-d505-uphuck-1049_install_dvd_v14i/#findComment-440247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theturtle Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 I'm having the same problem as you :s Gateway MT6821 Core2Duo 1.6ghz 945G chipset Sata 160GB HD Optiarc 16x DVDR+-RW :s no matter what i do, i keep getting that same error :\ i've tried formatting it a hundred different ways and reinstalling several times. I'm using Uphuck 10.4.9 1.4i r3 I know i've seen people report success with this laptop with 10.4.8 JaS, so I'm thinking i'm just doing something wrong. Is there something I'm doing wrong? :s Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58876-dell-latitude-d505-uphuck-1049_install_dvd_v14i/#findComment-440804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lxndr Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Did you get to the graphical installer yet or do you get this problem immediately at vm-boot? If you get this at boot, the dvd tries to boot the harddrive that is empty (.plist missing), you should: "press any key to boot from dvd" option at boot... Formatting is best done in the graphical installer, I'll try reproducing this at home in Virtual box! Also try to remove floppydrive from configuration, seems to fix some problems in VMWare... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58876-dell-latitude-d505-uphuck-1049_install_dvd_v14i/#findComment-637542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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