Installer keeps hanging / crashing

[gazpacho1]

Doing the whole verbose installation bit... using the same patched ISO that worked for a friend.

 

I've managed to partition the drive, and I can get to "Installing Mac OS X", but the installer keeps hanging at this stage. Mouse / keyb stop responding and the progress bar remains stationary.

 

I've gotten to 7% before... other times, it happens at 3%, 1%, etc.... it's unpredictable where the installation will get to.

 

Any clues?

 

(Dell 400SC with fresh SATA HD)

[jbjonas]

We can help, but need info first. What version of OSX? ie. 10.4.3 8F1111A? What patch used on DVD? ie JaS 4.2b? You might have issues with the SATA controller - try an IDE drive. Also, you mean the Dell 400SC PowerEdge Server?? I love dell, but damn them I can't find any info about what motherboard or chipset it has at their page: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/p...specstab#tabtop

Post all the specs you have please (especially, mobo, chipset, and SATA controller if you know)

[R. Bear Helms]

It's ironic that Apple basically pioneered the push toward SATA drives, and now we're struggling with their OS which doesn't appear to be all that SATA friendly, or at least not very diverse.

 

So many install problems I see from SATA owners - glad I have this kludgy ol' Maxtor IDE.

 

I believe the installer makes a couple assumptions: The destination drive is your primary drive, and the installer itself lives on a slave or secondary from that drive.

 

In SATA terms, it may mean that the cabling and assignments may be backward from the OS X installer assumptions.