Jas 10.4.8 Installed GREAT! But won't boot.

[Guanavia]

Hello all, I just joined the site and am new to the OSx86 concept but am VERY excited about it, unfortunately I have a problem... I can't get OSx to boot. Here's my process:

 

-I boot from the DVD and get to the Press any key for install or F8 for options screen.

-At this point if I let the countdown run out I get the "/com.....plist not found" error however if I press F8 i get the temrinal prompt and if I press any other key I get to the installer.

-So I go to the installer and succesfully complete the installation making sure to install only the components reccomended in other threads on this site and on in the Jas installer. (AMD SSE2&3, no 10.4.4 login, etc...)

-At the end of the install I reboot, go to the command prompt and type in the commands I'm told to at the end of the install (-v -s, reboot and the ./patcher 10.4.8.AMD.CPUID.txt) and end up back at the installer.

 

I figured that once this was done the computer would boot up to OSx but there I am at the installer again... so I select the boot drive, I choose the HD I installed osx to and the computer restarts. I remove the DVD to allow the computer to boot from the HD without interference of the bootable DVD and let the computer go through the boot cycle.

 

All I get is a black screen with a cursor blinking in the upper left corner of the screen. What did I do wrong? How can I boot the OS?

 

thanks everyone!

[Guanavia]

Ok, so I just zero'd out the HD again and reinstalled with slightly different options.

 

With the install dvd in I hit F8 and then -v -s and am now able to get to the regular bsd command line.

 

I attempt to run ./patcher 10.4.8.AMD.CPUID.txt and the command isn't found... It's progress but I still can't patch it.

[Guanavia]

bump.

 

No ideas?

[DaveSheffield]

When installing: start Disk Utility - chose your disk - tab Partition - button Options - PC blah-blah-blah partition type.

[Uoila1]

did u try specifying the disk that you want to boot from?

 

when you go into the installer, and go to disk utility, you can (right click > Information) on the disk you want to boot and find its ID which will be something like "disk0s1"

 

then reboot with the DVD in, and when the countdown is happening, hit F8. Now its waiting for input

 

now type "rd=disk0s1" except replace disk0s1 with whatever you got in the previous step. hit enter.

 

That worked for me when i got missing plist errors.

[digitalunderground]

And one more if it's still not working.......

 

When you use the disk utility to format your disk to Journaled HFS+, you also have the option to do MBR options. Make sure you select the MBR option or else the partition infomration will not be written to the Master Boot Record. If you're dual booting Windows and Mac (or in my case triple booting Mac, Windows, and Linux) it's important to make sure the Mac installation is on the same HD where Windows is or else you won't be able to boot it, too, unless you use GRUB and direct it to the HD where the Mac installation is. On the safe side, just make sure you keep the Mac partition on the same hard drive where the Windows installation is installed.

 

Keep at it and let us know if it worked......we all started out the same way you did.....strugging until it installed right. When it does.....WOW what a difference a REAL OS makes.

 

InsanelyMac rules!

 

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