Squeaky369 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Hey Guys I'm starting the installing following Maxxuss instructions, and I'm running into a problem in step 7. I've edited the 2 files I need to edit, and I've mounted the Restore DVD DMG, but it keeps coming up with an error message saying: "Install Failed: Some Files for BaseSystem may not have been written correctly." And I'm making sure that my BaseSystem.pkg/Contecnts/Info.plish is written correctly with the right text. And like I said before, the Image file IS Mounted. Any ideas? I'm running a P4 3.0 GHz HT Machine with SSE3 Compatablity - So there's no need to install the Emulator, so that shouldn't cause anything. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9426-problem-with-initial-installation/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 The base kernel patches definitely need to be added, and that mach_kernel may have to be put on the DMG root directory, despite Maxxuss not mentioning that. However, these symptoms are not typical of a kernel image fault. It is something more fundamental, like write access or locking privilege on the volume you are installing to. I have a very similar error myself, and am coming to suspect that Maxxuss has been testing his instructions using two hard drives - one for the 10.4.3 installation, and a fresh hard drive for the 10.4.4. I suspect this because when I mount a USB drive that has 2 paritions on it to OS X, both appear on the desktop (no problem). When I eject EITHER of these 2 volunes, the other one disappears too. Very curious. I think the installer either unmounts or remounts the destination drive very early in the game, and I am thinking that it is trying to unmount the 10.4.3 volume along with it, being that both are on the same physical disk drive (at least they are for me). This would be like pulling the carpet out from under your feet. Something painful probably happens. I seem to recall ATTEMPTING to install to a USB drive but it too had 2 partitions at that time. I may attempt formatting that as one big partition and see if it changes anything for me. There is a norton ghost image of 10.4.4 floating around and if you can make 20.2gb of free space for ghost to restore into, this torrent (which includes Ghost) should restore to a fully bootable state. I'm downloading... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9426-problem-with-initial-installation/#findComment-58744 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeaky369 Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 I too am running two hard drives to install this. One, a 10.4.3 installation, and a fresh, nothing on it, brand new hard drive, for my 10.4.4 installation. And getting that error message. I should try and look for this ghost image, would be an easy way to get it working - but would take out the thrill of getting it to work on my own, even with the mounting stress... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9426-problem-with-initial-installation/#findComment-58748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I have stayed up til 5 and 6am trying OSx86, when 10.4.3 was fresh and just as JaS was coming up with an ISO patcher. I lost a lot of time and trashed a lot of bad DVDs, but I did learn a few things. The most important is to get those MD5 codes and check them. Using them, I discovered that the method I was using to convert DMG to ISO was corrupting the results. Once I got a non-trialware, non-demo mode, non-gimpy, fully-registered utility to perform this function, the MD5 snapped to rights and all was happiness... until I tried to get some sounds out >< My system is still mute, despite all these helpful hints on how to edit various plist files in various kexts to include PNP ID for my ICH6 chipset. There's some assumption, either about the computing environment or where the source and destination system come from or are going, that are not jibing with Maxxuss' system. Since you have a fresh hard drive, you may have saved me the trouble of wiping the external USB drive totally and trying an install that way. I did run across a script to convert a DMG to a bootable patched 10.4.4 install. I burned that, and when it loaded, it complained about no driver for ACPI. The weird thing is if I use the RAW, unchanged, 10.4.4 Restore DVD, it boots, I can say platform=ACPI and it continues past that without any problem (until the blue screen and TPM check, that is). So I have a suspicion that Maxxuss hasn't or can't test against an ACPI environment and therefore cannot re-create the difficulty those of us with diehard ACPI configurations are experiencing. Maybe there's some ACPI stuff on 10.4.3 that could be copied over. I guess it doesn't hurt to try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9426-problem-with-initial-installation/#findComment-58752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeaky369 Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 OK, I read in another fourm on how to get by my problem... 1) Take and mount the DVD Restore Image 2) Open up Disk Utility 3) Make a New Image with "Read/Write" Settings on the new Image with the DVD Restore Disk 4) Then all you have to do is edit the "OSInstall.mpgk/Contents/OSInstall.dist" file 5) Run the "OSInstall.mpkg" in that folder, and your good to go... With this, you don't need to copy the files over to the 10.4.3 Hard Drive. But, I'm running SSE3, so you may still need to run the other patches first. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9426-problem-with-initial-installation/#findComment-58773 Share on other sites More sharing options...
i1sam Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 the latest maxxuss guide do not need a readwrite dmg.... just copy the packages on-top of the 10.4.3 partition Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9426-problem-with-initial-installation/#findComment-58792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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