Booting problems. tried everything, need help.

[falkenfluegel]

Hi guys.

 

I don t know where to start. I downloaded the uphuck 10.4.9 1.3 dvd and tried to make that work.

 

my comp:

 

4CoreDual-VSTA VIA PT880

Core duo E6300 1,87gig

2 gigs of ram

Radeon 9800pro

one Sata HDD and one ATA HDD

 

first i tried to install OSX on my Sata HDD but it seems that osx doesn t support my sata chipset. so i build in the ata disk and completly deleted every partition on it.

So i startet from the uphuck dvd and made a new HFS+ journaled partition on the new harddisk. installed it on this harddisk.

I m not sure what packages i need for my comp, but i tried several different stuff.

I asume i need the SSE3 kernel and some calisto drivers for my graphicscard, but i didn t found some really good information about this.

 

The error i get know is the "blinking cursor" ... so it doesnt even start to load osx.

 

I read the uphuck HP and found this:

1- I get a blinking Cursor after Installation and OSX wont boot:

--> Your partition that OSX is installed is not active and contains no Boot Flag.

~ Use Gparted Live cd and by using harddrive manager set "Boot Flag" to the OSX partition.

 

I did that but the strange thing is, that gparted shows me two partitions on the new harddisk. One fat32 with 200 megs and the HFS partition with the rest of the space. I realy don t know why there is a fat32 partition because i never made one. This fat partition has the boot flag, so i gave the HSF partition the flag.... but that did nothing.

 

What am i doing wrong, im completly out of ideas.

 

Thanks for the help!

[a2000rick]

I've got the same problem too trying to install this onto my Asus P5B-E. I'm still trying various things, and will report anything i find.

 

I'm using a SATA DVD, and HD. (never used a sata dvd before, but OSX seemed to installe fine with it)

 

I've disabled the jmicron controller in BIOS, and have my SATA set to IDE. AHCI has the same effect.

 

using UBCD i set my partition to active. still nothing

 

Installed using Jas 10.4.8 in AHCI mode and that worked, but If I type clear into terminal i get a bus error, and after a while it gives me the "you need to reboot" message.

[falkenfluegel]

mh ... i tried some stuff today but still nothing.

[a2000rick]

"Your partition table type should be other than MBR (Apple tyoe or guid)"

 

I accidentally mistook this to mean, that my partition table should be other than MBR, when in fact it should BE MBR.

 

I installed it again, this time using MBR, and it worked.

 

I hope you get it to work too falkenfluegel

[Supreme]

Hi guys.

 

I don t know where to start. I downloaded the uphuck 10.4.9 1.3 dvd and tried to make that work.

 

my comp:

 

4CoreDual-VSTA VIA PT880

Core duo E6300 1,87gig

2 gigs of ram

Radeon 9800pro

one Sata HDD and one ATA HDD

 

first i tried to install OSX on my Sata HDD but it seems that osx doesn t support my sata chipset. so i build in the ata disk and completly deleted every partition on it.

So i startet from the uphuck dvd and made a new HFS+ journaled partition on the new harddisk. installed it on this harddisk.

I m not sure what packages i need for my comp, but i tried several different stuff.

I asume i need the SSE3 kernel and some calisto drivers for my graphicscard, but i didn t found some really good information about this.

 

The error i get know is the "blinking cursor" ... so it doesnt even start to load osx.

 

I read the uphuck HP and found this:

1- I get a blinking Cursor after Installation and OSX wont boot:

--> Your partition that OSX is installed is not active and contains no Boot Flag.

~ Use Gparted Live cd and by using harddrive manager set "Boot Flag" to the OSX partition.

 

I did that but the strange thing is, that gparted shows me two partitions on the new harddisk. One fat32 with 200 megs and the HFS partition with the rest of the space. I realy don t know why there is a fat32 partition because i never made one. This fat partition has the boot flag, so i gave the HSF partition the flag.... but that did nothing.

 

What am i doing wrong, im completly out of ideas.

 

Thanks for the help!

 

read copyrights of Mac Os, before making your future worse than it is

 

by worse i mean, like having no Macintosh

 

May be, you've tried this option already, but i didn't have time to read till the newest topic cauz i'm in an Internet Cafe. But if u haven't yet tried this, then make yo PC to an Hakintosh with this method;

 

 

Well since your try failed with uphuck10.4.9 1.3 dvd, u should try MacOS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2]. 1st reason cauz u got an Intel Processor (and my researches results are that "Mac Os X Jas" Dvds work best with INTEL PROCESSORS) and second may be this is a possibility!

INFO: Mac Os X Jas 10.4.8 worked on my system till i'm tried uphuck 10.4.9, after then my system crashed;

 

SAM Multimedia: read or WRITE failed, ASC = Ox29, ASCQ = Ox00

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Still waiting for root device

Whatever,

 

1) After downloading the Jas version,

 

2) !!Burn the DVD with Slowest Speed possible speed!!

reboot your PC, check if your BIOs for this following Bootorder;

eg. my boot order

1 DVD Drive

2 HD

3 Floppy (disabled)

if its the same then ESC and OK, else change it then F10 and OK

 

Disc boots? If yes then;

 

press > F8 < and type > -v < and >ENTER<

 

If you bypass the all the messeges , follow next steps...

 

in my case, i selected english as Install- and Standardlanguage.

format your HD, if its shown using DISKUTILITY, as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

select customize Installation; and the select following

 

-the printer drivers

-Translations; the less, the faster your through the installation,(eg. Germany, Spanish, Italian, Japanese.)

-Ofcourse the X11

-and finally the Intel SSE3 support as the one and only addditional patch, since i have an INTEL Processor with SSE3 support.

 

deselect drivers for graphics and sound.

!!care about graphics and sound later!!

 

3) INSTALL

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after the installation is done, the PC will reboot automatically. Don't eject the DVD from your DVD drive. Incase the boot manager isn't running, the DVD boot manager will run the countdown (press no button on your keyboard) and then the installed system should run.

 

If this helped you, smile again, cauz at the scale of 100%, ur on 99.9%

go through the settings, eg timezone, create account, etc. for the 100%

 

 

4 sound, video, network, and alot more other drivers>>> ask in other forums or use the such tab on this site. In between, i'm really thankful for this site. Alot of infomation and helpers. I'm also going to donate too. i gotta go, report soon if i helped you. i hope i did....

[BeefWelington]

<br />"Your partition table type should be other than MBR (Apple tyoe or guid)"<br /><br />I accidentally mistook this to mean, that my partition table should be other than MBR, when in fact it should BE MBR.<br /><br />I installed it again, this time using MBR, and it worked.<br /><br />I hope you get it to work too falkenfluegel<br />

<br /><br /><br />

 

wait, what do you mean?

 

I've got the same problem you and falkenfluegel were having. The only MBR option I know of is to select MBR under the options button in the "partitions" tab in the Disk Utility before you install OSX86. I selected this, but that didn't make any difference with the problem.

 

Then I booted from the DVD again and I checked the Disk Utility without affecting the OSX86 install whatsoever. There were two partitions, one 200MB fat32 and one "free space" partition. The fat32 was set as MBR while the "Free space" wasn't. Even if I tried to set it to MBR and close the Disk Utility, when I opened back up again it would switch back to the default option (the one at the top).

 

So this also begs the question about boot flagging using the Gparted Live CD. If you post anywhere and say you're getting the cursor problem, everyone calls you an idiot and tells you to boot flag the drive. Except that there's actually three partitions when you inspect the drive with the Gpart CD. One is the 200mb fat32, one is the HFS+ space which makes up the entirety of the drive, and then there's one more additional section that is "unallocated". So which one are you supposed to flag as boot?

 

I'm not even trying to install OSX86 on a partition or anything. It's the only OS on the hard disk. So why then isn't it booting? And I've already tried flagging each partition as the boot drive. None of that makes any difference. So I think it's not the MBR problem and not the boot flag problem. So what is it?

 

I feel like practically nobody gets the boot cursor problem, and anybody who does they just assume it's the MBR or boot flag thing. Problem is there's a bunch of people asking why OSX86 won't boot and they've definitely tried both of those things. The whole project is hugely lacking in a good support system.

[a2000rick]

@beefwelington

 

I'm 99% sure that you are having the same problem i was having

 

Try this

1. In disk utility (when your installing OSX) click on your hard drive (not a partition on it)

2. Click on the partition tab to our right.

3. Make sure that you select 1 partition in the volume scheme.

4. Then click options...

5. Select Master Boot Record

6. Click the Partition button

 

Now you should be able to see the hard drive in the installer. Just install and it should boot no problem.

 

I was having the same frustrations as you're having, thinking that this must be something other then MBR, but it wasn't. The read me was just written in a way that confused me.

 

Hope you get it to work, and write back if you do,

 

a2000rick