Once DD'd and Restarted - "EBIOS Read Error 0x04

[jazzy639]

Hi,

 

I got tiger-x86-flat.img - uncompressed, its 2.14GB for me.

 

I used the DD command to copy it to an unpartitioned 4.01GB spare HDD.

 

I restarted my comoputer and unplugged my main HDD so itboots off of my spare HDD.

 

I get a black screen saying Darwin at the top and then it says

 

"EBIOS Read Error: Error 0x04

Block 8844999: Sectors 64"

 

several times and then takes me back to the first screen where I can click enter to do the same thing again.

 

Any ideas?

 

Many thanks in advance

[shayanoh]

Is should be uncompressed to a ~6gb file. i think there's a problem with the program you use to uncompress. I used winrar and it worked fine

[jazzy639]

Well,

 

I went to start, Run and typed in compmgmt.msc

 

I got up the Hard Disk management and it shows an unpartitioned drive which is 6GB. So the img must be 6GB but as the HDD is only 4GB - thats the problem.

 

I am about to exchange the 4GB drive to a 20GB and I will try again.

 

And I did use WinRAR 3.50

 

Thanks

[jazzy639]

I have changed the 4GB to a 20GB drive and I used the DD command in Windows to copy the image to the unpartitioned 20GB drive.

 

When I boot up from the drive, it says:

 

 

hd(0,1) tiger-x86

 

Error parsing plist fileLoading Darwin/x86

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance!

[jrb1981]

I have changed the 4GB to a 20GB drive and I used the DD command in Windows to copy the image to the unpartitioned 20GB drive.

 

When I boot up from the drive, it says:

hd(0,1) tiger-x86

 

Error parsing plist fileLoading Darwin/x86

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance!

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