Wont boot.

[ajhutton]

I got the xXx 10.4.10 disc and burned it to a disk, tried to boot it and I got an ebios error, five coasters later i found out i needed to burn it slow. I burnt it on the lowest speed i could and voila, it worked.

On my first install i went through and selected every single kernel that said anything about SSE2. i soon discovered that it dident work

For my next one i did this:

I formatted a spare 6 gig hdd I had lying around and selected it. I chose the

8.9.1 kernel Universal + patches, the Generic.USB.EHCI.Controller, the Natit.Dual.v02 (for my geforce 5200 FX) and the RealtekR1000.Driver for Network. It went all through the install like normal. I noticed that the very end of the install log said something about not being able to make a boot drive because the partition layout wasn't MBR.

When I rebooted i got a com.apple.boot.plist (i think thats what it was) error. I had experienced this before as a result of not pressing a key soon enough so, I dismissed it and removed the cd. I then reboot and my computer went through its normal thing and then it did this:

 

(blah blah blah just irq settings and stuff)

Boot from cd: ...

_ (flashing _ over and over and over again)

 

 

It just stayed there.

 

I then booted back into the install dvd and just chose the kernel and reccomended patches (I had heard somewere else that if i just do a bare essential install it should work.)

It did the exact same thing as above.

 

This is a section of my cpu-z log:

 

Processors Information

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Processor 1 (ID = 0)

Number of cores 1

Number of threads 2 (max 2)

Name Intel Pentium 4

Codename Northwood

Specification Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.60GHz

Package Socket 478 mPGA (platform ID = 2h)

CPUID F.2.9

Extended CPUID F.2

Brand ID 9

Core Stepping D1

Technology 0.13 um

Core Speed 2593.7 MHz (13.0 x 199.5 MHz)

Rated Bus speed 798.1 MHz

Stock frequency 2600 MHz

Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2

L1 Data cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64-byte line size

Trace cache 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative

L2 cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size

FID/VID Control no

Specs.bmp

[ajhutton]

Okay,

I was stuffing around in disk utility and changed the partition to MBR and it worked, but my Realtek RTL8139 (onboard) is not working, in system profiler it shows en0 as onboard ethernet but it does not show up in System Preferences > Network, in network diagnostics it has everything except for Modem Connection greyed out.

I found a driver for the RTL8139 for mac os x but it was 10.2. I tried it and discovered that it dident work on 10.4.10.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

PS:

Is it just the fact that i have a SSE2 processor that makes it so slow (15 minutes cold boot) or is there something im missing?

Because i heard some were (I think it was about 10.4.1) that you have to delete some file that keeps checking the TPM or something.

[Dr. Hurt]

15 minutes is way too much. It shouldn't take more than 1 minute. Remove the thermal and power management kexts.