kthree11 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 EDIT: I've moved on to trying to install from a flat image, as every single dvd version out there gives me the same error on my system, but i have a whole new set of problems on this install, i cant get past darwin immediately restarting. There's more details and a screenshot below... This is my first post here, but I have been doing a great deal of reading on these forums in the past few days trying to get my system working. I get the "/com.apple.Boot.plist not found" message every time I try to boot into the installer on the DVD. I can't get past step 1! I've been reading around about what I can do to fix this problem, most people suggest using an external USB DVD Drive. Well, that's the DVD Drive I'm using on this computer. I've seen people successfully install with my mobo with no problems around some of these forums, so I'd really like to figure out what's wrong and get this thing going. Does anyone know what I can do? Is there some BIOS setting that I may have missed? Specs: MB: Biostar P4M800-M7A (and I upgraded to the newest BIOS) Intel Pentium D 840 3.2ghz Dual Core 512mb RAM As for my hard drives, I have both a SATA 160gb drive and an IDE 40gb drive. Im trying to install this to the IDE drive and I have it first in the boot sequence. Is there a drive that would be better to install it to? Should I remove the other one? Any light anyone can shed on this would be greatly appreciated! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85119-flat-image-install-immediately-reboots-after-entering-darwin/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kthree11 Posted February 1, 2008 Author Share Posted February 1, 2008 I also should add that I've tried both the Kalyway v10.5.1 and the iATKOS v.1.0i, and both have the exact same problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85119-flat-image-install-immediately-reboots-after-entering-darwin/#findComment-604390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninetto Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 I also should add that I've tried both the Kalyway v10.5.1 and the iATKOS v.1.0i, and both have the exact same problem. Sounds definitely like a problem with your Pata(IDE) controller. You could: check your bios-settings that the controller is in a simple IDE mode (or check other Bios settings that might influence the install: there are guides on this!) change the Master-Slave settings if you have more than 1 device on your dvd-rom cable have only one device on the dvd-rom cable (if possible) if all that fails: do a flat-image install... avoids having to install via dvd. good luck, ninetto Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85119-flat-image-install-immediately-reboots-after-entering-darwin/#findComment-604447 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kthree11 Posted February 1, 2008 Author Share Posted February 1, 2008 i have been looking all over for guides on BIOS settings, and the only one i can find is the lifehacker one, but it doesnt really help me much. What "simple IDE" settings should I be looking for in the BIOS? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85119-flat-image-install-immediately-reboots-after-entering-darwin/#findComment-604522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamish909 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 I had this problem because I have jmicron as IDE controller and iatkos doens't like it. I switched from an IDE dvd drive to SATA one, and now it's fine. No plist message. Not sure why USB dvd drive does this though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85119-flat-image-install-immediately-reboots-after-entering-darwin/#findComment-604582 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninetto Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 As for my hard drives, I have both a SATA 160gb drive and an IDE 40gb drive. Im trying to install this to the IDE drive and I have it first in the boot sequence. Is there a drive that would be better to install it to? Should I remove the other one? Any light anyone can shed on this would be greatly appreciated! Make a partition on the SATA drive. Put the DVD-drive internal as the only device on your IDE ribbon. Make sure your IDE-controller is set to IDE mode (what controllers do you have on that Board? Intel ICH7 or Jmicron or?) no raid, no AHCI. Activate S.M.A.R.T if available. Install to the sata drive. hope that works, otherwise try the flat-image method. regards, ninetto Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85119-flat-image-install-immediately-reboots-after-entering-darwin/#findComment-605109 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kthree11 Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 my dvd drive is an external usb drive. And i tried the flat install, and i got further with it, I was able to get through the entire batch file in the window portion, but whenever i try to boot to the drive it says "loading darwin" really quickly and then restarts the computer... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85119-flat-image-install-immediately-reboots-after-entering-darwin/#findComment-605535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninetto Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 The re-boot problem with a flat-image install should be easy to fix. Which image did you use to install? Have you tried with a different kernel, or using the flags "-x", "legacy"....etc? With the "-v" flag you should be able to get info what is causing the re-boot. Maybe the partition was not made properly bootable... good luck, ninetto Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85119-flat-image-install-immediately-reboots-after-entering-darwin/#findComment-606555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kthree11 Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 I used the 9a581 GM image? I didn't even see how i could get to the kernel, it says "loading darwinx86" for about one second and then immediately restarts the machine. I will try to hit F8 and get to the boot loader screen and post some results...so i managed to use a -v flag to boot, and via taking video with my digital camera and extracting a screenshot from it, this is what happens in the less than one second after i push -v to boot: If i use -v in conjunction with -x, i get a ton of lines of text that scroll down the screen for about 10-15 seconds, and the last one that i can see i THINK (they are going really fast so it is hard to tell) says something about system.kext and then it restarts the machine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85119-flat-image-install-immediately-reboots-after-entering-darwin/#findComment-608516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
waring192 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 i have the same problem. Impressed you managed to get a screen shot there though! Restart is too quick for me. I have a Intel Pentium D 820. Might be a problem with our cpu? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85119-flat-image-install-immediately-reboots-after-entering-darwin/#findComment-608656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kthree11 Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 i dont see why it would be problem with the cpu although im sure it's possible, but that level cpu supports up through SSE3 so i dont understand what the problem might be? And to get the screenshot i had to setup my digital camera on a mini-tripod, take a video of the process, import it into windows, open it in VLC and take a screenshot (this is how badly i need help ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85119-flat-image-install-immediately-reboots-after-entering-darwin/#findComment-608688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
waring192 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 dedication! what gfx card you using? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85119-flat-image-install-immediately-reboots-after-entering-darwin/#findComment-608692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kthree11 Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 i have a geforce 2 (i forget the entire cardname) and i have onboard video on the motherboard. I may try the onboard video but i was hesitant to do so because i have a 512mb ddr stick and this requires 512 mb at minimum? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85119-flat-image-install-immediately-reboots-after-entering-darwin/#findComment-608714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
waring192 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 just did a a vid liek you and with just -v it does loads of loading and then starting darwin/x86_ and then reboots Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85119-flat-image-install-immediately-reboots-after-entering-darwin/#findComment-608723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kthree11 Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 the video card i had plugged in was a "GForce2 MX400 64MB DDR VGA" AGP video card. I just tried removing it from the machine and using the onboard video instead (S3 Unichrome with 64mb shared memory) and noticed no difference in my results... Further update: I completely stripped all of the components out of my PC, the only things that are left connected are the onboard motherboard video, and the IDE hard drive with leopard on it. Problem remains the same. Im guessing i am SOL on this setup then? I dont know what else i can do, i would love some input Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85119-flat-image-install-immediately-reboots-after-entering-darwin/#findComment-608786 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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