DTMracer Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 My first post!! Anyway, I'm trying to get the JAS 10.4.8 Tiger installation working on my computer. I have been following this installation guide: http://www.anyizhu.com/mediawiki/index.php...tallationGuides I have the OS selector and Windows installed on my 320GB HD, but the partition for OSX is on the 500GB HD. After reading everything on that guide, I obtained the installation CD image, burnt it onto a DVD and so on. The installation went fine, and all my files are still on both my HD and windows is working atm (except that the MAC partition doesn't show up, which it sholdn't). After the OSX installation, the computer rebooted. However, I got the error "NTLDR is missing", so I went back in to the BIOS, set the IDE connections to enhanced mode, booted from the 320GB HD and went into the OS selector. I selected osx, and I got into the grey screen with the Apple logo and the clock thing on the bottom, as said in the guide. However, It just hangs up at that screen, and in the middle of the apple logo I get a small white square with a grey stop sign in it. So, once again, I went back into the BIOS, set the IDE connections to compatible, and now only my 500GB HD now shows up. So, I selected to boot from that HD, it goes into Darwin, then into the grey screen and I get exactly the same problem as before. Could any gurus out there please help me out? I'm dying for this to work. My specs are: Intel C2D E6700 Zalmann CNPS9500LED fan Asus P5WDH-Deluxe mobo 2 x 1GB DDR2-800 Transcend Ram Asus EN8800GTS 320mb graphics card WD 320GB Caviar SE16 SATA HD WD 500GB Caviar SE16 SATA HD 2 x LG SATA DVD drives Antec neoHE 500w Power supply Antec nine Hundred case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tried Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 can you please boot in verbose mood and send in a screen shot of it? (press f8 and type -v for verbose mood). i have a feeling you have the (still waiting for root device...) read up on that in the forums. Tried Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 you're dual boot -ing xp and os x right? are you sure the correct drive is actived or you'll get a ntldr is missing msg! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTMracer Posted November 12, 2007 Author Share Posted November 12, 2007 I forgot to mention. I don't have the NTLDR error anymore. Now its just that it can't properly boot into OSX. Once the BIOS finishes posting and I'm in the OS selector, I can see the "unknow operating system" icon, which I know to be MAC. I select MAC, Darwin loads, then I enter the gray screen with the Apple logo and clock thing underneath. Then, it just hangs up at that screen, and I get a white square with a grey stop sign in it within the apple logo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTMracer Posted November 13, 2007 Author Share Posted November 13, 2007 I am getting that "still waiting for root device" message. Here's a screenshot. Sorry about the brightness: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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