10.4.3...Almost got it, stuck on blue screen on install, help please!

[PictureMeRollin]

So last night I went ahead and reformated my Presario x1000 into two 20gig partitions. I threw on a fresh copy of XP on one partition. I acquired 'macosx_10.4.3_8f1111_for_dtk_userdvd.dmg' and converted it to an iso using UltraISO and applied the Jas 4.2 patches, then burned the iso to a DVD+R at 2.4x.

 

Now i went to the command prompt, made the second partition active and booted up with the newly created DVD. Sure enough it booted right up (Darwin/x86 boot). I went ahead and hit enter and the gray splash screen with the apple logo came up and started to load, but it hung after about 20 seconds. I rebooted and went into advanced mode and launched the install using -v. It went through lines of code and i noticed this at the end:

 

localhost diskarbitrationd[33]: unable to mount /dev/disk8s1 (staus code 0x00000047).

localhost diskarbitrationd[33]: unable to mount /dev/disk1s1 (staus code 0x00000047).

localhost diskarbitrationd[33]: unable to mount /dev/disk8s5 (staus code 0x00000047).

localhost configd[31]: WirelessAirportDeviceNameCopy(): no AirPort driver found

 

 

it hung here for a while, then displayed:

 

C8D8: vram [90000000:00000000]

 

and then booted to a blue screen and just sits there. I can move the mouse around, but nothing.

 

 

.....im not sure what to try from here. The only thing I can think may be wrong is that I didn't format the second partition? But i wouldnt want to format it in NTFS of FAT32, right? Any help or advice would be much appreciated, thanks!

 

-B

[Chipmiester]

i have this same error myself on my thinkpad t40...i dont know why it does this, but i got my contact at IBM to send me out a new hard drive, if a new hard drive fixes it i will be able to tell you that it is either a problem with your partition table or your physical hard disk...try doing this debug routine on your hard disk in the meantime

 

http://www.computerhope.com/rdebug.htm#4

 

to do this i used a windows 98 emergency boot disk located here:

 

http://www.allbootdisks.com/index.php?opti...&filecatid=1866

 

instructions:

 

1) burn the windows 98 boot disk to a cd

2) reboot the pc with 98 boot cd into it

3) load computer with cd support

4) when it goes to the a:\> prompt, type debug

it should come up now with only a - where you can type

 

follow the debug routine i gave you(first link) and then try os x after that. i know now that mine is "write protected" from something, i dont know if that will help but it did make some progress for me(boots up alot more often for me)

 

***EDIT***

 

ok, now when i boot up from the dvd, it will stay at this screen (blue one)

 

i thought to myself, hmm i wonder what would happen if i just let it sit for awhile

 

and presto, after about 10-15 mins language selection pops up

 

it is running very slow for me, im assuming it has to do with hard drive not being usable right now so ram is maxed out with ramdrives. i do not really know though. again il update when i know more