ganyaman Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Hi, i need some help, i had already sucsessfuly installed osx86 10.4.9 on a PS with XP and Mac using acronis boot loader but i reacently updated my XP to x64 and i had to format the drive where acronis was sitting. since then, Mac wont start. it boots but it hangs on loading on the apple screen until a strange icon appears (little circle with a slash across). could you please assist me? i can't boot on verbose either. i've already restored disk permissions using the DVD boot option but no luck. i only need to get some info out of the drive and i will re install mac afterwards if that is necessary. Thank you my specs are Pentium D 950 4Gb RAM Kingston NVIDIA 6800GT (XFX) Broadcom 43xx LAN Intel 955x chipset MoBo Gigabyte GA 81955x Royal Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83177-1049-hangs-up-at-boot-mac-logo-with-icon/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 type F8 when the bootloader appears and when prompted for command type -v, then you get the error messages, then come back and post them. if you cant do that, boot again from dvd, open diskutils and post the partition type ( MBR or GPT) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83177-1049-hangs-up-at-boot-mac-logo-with-icon/#findComment-591040 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganyaman Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 the partition type is MBR, the last lines when starting on verbose are: Still waiting for root device. the only thing that has changed is the order of my SATA HDD ports, but nothing else. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83177-1049-hangs-up-at-boot-mac-logo-with-icon/#findComment-591267 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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