xexitenglishx Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 I have successfully imaged osx to my laptop but i cannot get to to work on my desktop. I have a p4p800-e deluxe motherboard p 4 3.2 and a POWERCOLOR R98E-PD3 Radeon 9800 256MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card. It gets through the bios boot then it hangs at a black screen with with a blinking cursor at the top left. I have changed bios setting and disabled all of my other hd's but it still the same. Is it my video card thats stopping me. It doesnt even get to darwin. Thanks for any help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
xexitenglishx Posted August 22, 2005 Author Share Posted August 22, 2005 anyone?????? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-5343 Share on other sites More sharing options...
setec Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 I have the same problem. System: Dell Dimension 8100 P4 1.5 Ghz 768 MB RAM The spare harddrive, which when trying to get it to run is the only one hooked up (SET TO MASTER) is a 102GB harddrive. everything went fine using directions from osxonpc.com, up until where its suppose to boot the OS. Just a blinking cursor, black screen. The harddrive light keeps going, but nothing else. Have left this go for 30 minutes, nothing. Any ideas? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-5395 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xexitenglishx Posted August 22, 2005 Author Share Posted August 22, 2005 Yea im thinking its a video card since its the 9800. Im looking into this now. It sucks i have it on my laptop and its great im on it now. i get everything to run so far. ANYONE have any advice?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-5481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joneSi Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 Yea im thinking its a video card since its the 9800. Im looking into this now. It sucks i have it on my laptop and its great im on it now. i get everything to run so far. ANYONE have any advice?? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nope, I have an Intel 915 chipset board with onboard 900 graphics...sitting at black cursor sceen :S. Thats no good. 40gb seagate drive, 2.66 Celeron D socket T, 512 ram. I'm thinking its the SATA controller getting in the way. joneSi Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-5754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xexitenglishx Posted August 23, 2005 Author Share Posted August 23, 2005 could the cursor be bc i dont have a floppy drive installed..bc i read that the patched files look for the floppy drive instead of the tpm chip or whatever the chip is called? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-6090 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joneSi Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 could the cursor be bc i dont have a floppy drive installed..bc i read that the patched files look for the floppy drive instead of the tpm chip or whatever the chip is called? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hmmmm...good call. I don't have a floppy either! That COULD be it...I guess. But wouldn't it let you know. jonesi Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-6117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebo Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Hmmmm...good call. I don't have a floppy either! That COULD be it...I guess. But wouldn't it let you know. jonesi <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I got this after I hosed my partition map using the OSX Startup disk utility... maybe its releated.. perhaps your paritions are not setup properly.. is OSX the only OS in the machine? Have you set the drive to AF using the linux cfdisk tool? Try to give some more info.. which installation method did you use? How do you know it imaged properly.. How did you setup your partitions etc... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-6220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joneSi Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 I got this after I hosed my partition map using the OSX Startup disk utility... maybe its releated.. perhaps your paritions are not setup properly.. is OSX the only OS in the machine? Have you set the drive to AF using the linux cfdisk tool? Try to give some more info.. which installation method did you use? How do you know it imaged properly.. How did you setup your partitions etc... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I believe that my MBR was screwed up, I was using a DVD to install a patched (oah750d was the patch) version of original . I did not do AF via Linux to the Seagate. Instead its now a firewire drive. I installed successfully from patched DVD from marklar-tiger.iso converted to dmg all on an iBook G4. Burned to DVD via USB DVD burner. Bootable on intel 915GAG hardware on Celeron D with SSE3 and Rosetta mostly works. I need to update the oah750d patch. Maybe that would help stabilize. joneSi Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-6259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xexitenglishx Posted August 24, 2005 Author Share Posted August 24, 2005 well iwas using deadmoos image and dding it through windows dd and i was raw wrting over it and not formating it..i couldnt get ubunto workign on my desk top and when i tried fedora i didnt have the cfdisk command...Any help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-6270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebo Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 well iwas using deadmoos image and dding it through windows dd and i was raw wrting over it and not formating it..i couldnt get ubunto workign on my desk top and when i tried fedora i didnt have the cfdisk command...Any help? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well I couldn't get cfdisk working so I used (I think it was called diskmgmt.msc to create the partition.. its in the wiki somewhere [its 3am here so I'm to beat to look]) Other note maybe able to create the parition with partion magic, then the partition edit tool to change the type to AF. While trying to repair my partions I noticed this.. I was using the SuperPE DVD that is floating around the newsgroups (a absolute must for any geek toolbox) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-6314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebo Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 I believe that my MBR was screwed up, I was using a DVD to install a patched (oah750d was the patch) version of original . I did not do AF via Linux to the Seagate. Instead its now a firewire drive. I installed successfully from patched DVD from marklar-tiger.iso converted to dmg all on an iBook G4. Burned to DVD via USB DVD burner. Bootable on intel 915GAG hardware on Celeron D with SSE3 and Rosetta mostly works. I need to update the oah750d patch. Maybe that would help stabilize. joneSi <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm sorry I only use the DeadMoo install.. so I don't know the DVD install (I'll mess with that when I get extra time, uh if I ever get extra time. #OI$#*$ users always calling.. its a perfect system if only the users would go away!) Hows the OSX speed on that celeron? My experience with the celerons have never been great for my purposes (though I've set up many a user on them, great for web and office apps).. Only good Celeron (for me) was the ones that could be overclocked to 200%!!! Now that was amazing.. ah the good ol' days.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-6316 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dussel Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Hi guys, try this solution: 1. use DD to extract the Image: dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\.\Volume{c18588c0-02e9-11d8-853f-00902758442b} bs=32256 skip=1 but replace the volume string ( in the format \\.\Volume{c18588c0-02e9-11d8-853f-00902758442b} ) with the one of your hard drive. 2. Reboot the System and you will get an HFS+ partition error (thats normal!!!) 3. use Ptedit (Partition Table Editor from Powerquest) or another Program to change the PatitionTYP to AF 4. Reboot and Darwin will boot Hope this help some of you Dear Dussel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-6391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 the hdd is not bootable (in mac terms). you need to run a sequence found in OD CD in the script /etc/rc.cdrom to make it bootable (bless and other stuff) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-6431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joneSi Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 I'm sorry I only use the DeadMoo install.. so I don't know the DVD install (I'll mess with that when I get extra time, uh if I ever get extra time. #OI$#*$ users always calling.. its a perfect system if only the users would go away!) Hows the OSX speed on that celeron? My experience with the celerons have never been great for my purposes (though I've set up many a user on them, great for web and office apps).. Only good Celeron (for me) was the ones that could be overclocked to 200%!!! Now that was amazing.. ah the good ol' days.. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well the celeron is no rocket. But I have a feeling its b/c of the lack of ram. It WOULD be nice if the programs would stop giving me crash reports after I close them...and the ATSserver thingy keeps crashing in the background. But hey, what can I expect from this thing right now. Its in the baby stages of software. joneSi EDIT: I don't know how much longer I can keep this up...crashy. I'll likely go back to XP for now, then buy an intel mac when they come out. In the meantime I got a free old, OLD, iMac that could make a fun project. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-6434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xexitenglishx Posted August 24, 2005 Author Share Posted August 24, 2005 dussel is this for a partion or for a clean wipe. How will i fix the partition if its the only os on the system? I am doing this on a clean system and it will be the only os. I am installing it on a separate harddrive and i am jsut pulling my windows harddrive and setting the bios to boot from the osx hdd. Thanks for your help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-6613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnalogTrail Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Hi guys,try this solution: 1. use DD to extract the Image: dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\.\Volume{c18588c0-02e9-11d8-853f-00902758442b} bs=32256 skip=1 but replace the volume string ( in the format \\.\Volume{c18588c0-02e9-11d8-853f-00902758442b} ) with the one of your hard drive. 2. Reboot the System and you will get an HFS+ partition error (thats normal!!!) 3. use Ptedit (Partition Table Editor from Powerquest) or another Program to change the PatitionTYP to AF 4. Reboot and Darwin will boot Hope this help some of you Dear Dussel <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was also experiencing the same problem as xexitenglishx (the thread starter). After I set the partition as active and changed the type to "AF", Darwin booted up with no problems. Thanks for the tip! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/847-blinking-cursor-black-screen/#findComment-6806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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