Zach Thomas Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 (edited) I've been trying to install this on my laptop for the last couple weeks now (hp pavilion zx5000, 3.2ghz hyperthreading, 1GB, 80GB HDD, SSE, SSE2 ect ect...) I first installed this in VMWare and it installed, booted, and runs just perfectly. Coudln't be happier... or could I . After a few other problems (I'll get to them in a minute) I changed the number of processors from 1 to 2. This resulted in the Virtual machine not booting. After I installed 10.4.3. the jas2 patch dvd on my vmware I attempted a native install. I burnt a dvd with nero and it loaded to the gray circle with a slash through it. DOH. So I read and figured out that -v would show me what was going on. So I punched in -v on my next boot and it said "still waiting for root device". More reading lead me to try rd=disk0s1. This got me past the "still waiting for root device" error. The error I'm currently stuck on is when it says "panic cpu" or something like that, next time I reboot I'll take a picture of it. I think the problem might be the hyperthreading. I'd like to disable it to find out but my bios doesn't have the ability to turn it off. Can anyone help this poor soul? Edited January 23, 2006 by Zach Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave A Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Did you try installing in vmware and then booting it native? For this to work you have to use the "use physical disk" option for your vmware harddrive, so that you are installing to an actual partition. I don't know if this will work for you, but it worked for me once when the install wouldn't work native. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 try disabling ht Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach Thomas Posted January 24, 2006 Author Share Posted January 24, 2006 (edited) When I delete the old hard drive and add the new one, it won't boot of the dvd or a mounted image, strange. Edited January 24, 2006 by Zach Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greyhathacker45 Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 platform=x86pc usually works for me. Try entering that at startup. It is also a possibility that your drives are all screwed up. Try unplugging all other drives besides the one you want to install onto (a good practice anyway) and the DVD drive your reading from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach Thomas Posted January 24, 2006 Author Share Posted January 24, 2006 (edited) I downloaded the dvd again and got 16139AE55AC283C114A5231F85C3F54C as the check, what is it suppost to be? Edit: Also, how do you make a "physical disk image" use IDE? Mine wants to use SCSI and I'm assuming that's why my VM won't boot. Edited January 25, 2006 by Zach Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcy_LH Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 the checksum u got is right... look into the rtf coming with JaS. There u find the checksums... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach Thomas Posted January 26, 2006 Author Share Posted January 26, 2006 I've had some progress. I made another dvd and it actually booted up. So I backed up my hard drive to install mac. After I rebooted it woudln't boot up anymore. I got the error "transaction past the completion deadline bus 71". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach Thomas Posted January 28, 2006 Author Share Posted January 28, 2006 I tried the same thing the next day and it worked = ). I'm typing this reply in mac now. Only problem is I need to be able to boot back into windows... How complicated is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technobob Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 Try hitting F8 at the Darwin boot screen and it should show you your windows partition just select it and hit enter If not then have a look here http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...uides#Dual_Boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach Thomas Posted January 28, 2006 Author Share Posted January 28, 2006 Got it, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_x86 Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 i had the same problem, i had a zip 750 usb drive connected to the pc, so i unplug it, then it worked perfectly...thats what happened to me, maybe some usb device you have connected..*shrug* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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