inimicus Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Unlike all the other threads that I found, my problem is not post-installation. In fact, I can't even boot to the DVD without fail. I've tried all sorts of boot flags with no avail. I've even tried Rev1 of Zephyroth's 10.5.2 without success. The machine has a Turion TL-50 processor and nForce 430/410 (SATA: Dev0266, ATA: Dev0265). Again, it's on an HP dv2125nr. Does anyone know of any solutions or have any more information regarding this problem? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94838-booting-install-dvd-comapplebootplist-not-found/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
nkear5 Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 I believe I got this when I had the SATA/IDE mode in BIOS set to SATA. This is due to the fact that it was trying to recognise my DVD drive as a SATA drive when it was only IDE. However considering this is a notebook, I'm not sure if the relative options are available. I believe HP AMD notebooks are notoriously hard to set up. Search around a bit more and see what you can find. Also, does the DVD start with a countdown timer then bring up the error. If not press f8 and start in verbose mode. (type -v). I don't think it will fix the problem, but it might help you determine where the problem is originating. This was a quote from a solution posted for someone with the same laptop as yourself. See if it helps you in any way. Thuro, there is probably nothing wrong with your hard drive. You've missed out several pieces of the instructions (see osx86project wiki). Download PTEdit from symantec's website (google it). Create your partitions the way you want them (I suggest if doing a dual boot between Win32 OS and Mac to have your Mac partition first as a primary, followed by your other primary partition/extended partitions (max of 3 primaries - including extended)). Partition Magic can move your data if need be. Restart your pc once you have paritioned (I suggest using a bootable USB Dongle with partition magic, etc.. on it) - if you don't, then make sure you set the mac partition to something like Linux ext3 so the XP Boot loader wont see it (if you're doing dual boot), otherwise XP will throw a wobbly by saying your kernel is missing from the system32 folder as it tries to look at the wrong partition. - there are ways around this, but lets not go there just now, we want OS X on your box. Disable the HyperTransport in your BIOS (sets the number of CPU's to 1 instead of 2). Ok, open ptedit in dos once you have booted in to it. find the partition you will be using for your OS X install. change it's type to 'AF' - unrecognised in PTEdit, but will be recognised by OS X later. - this is the bit you missed. change it to active - to do this, enter 80 in the column next to the partition type, and change the value of the boot flag for the previous active partition from 80 to 00,(you can change this back to XP boot loader (if dual booting) once the Darwin boot sector has been installed) kick the OS X install disk. open the disk utility. DO NOT repartition in here if you can help it - it can really throw your FAT (use a program called testdisk if you do screw up - google it ok, select the mac parition (probably disk0s1), and choose erase - this will take a moment or two while it creates the OS X journaled filesystem and mounts the partition. done?.....quit the disk utility. Now go back to the installation screen, whack the next button, accept the agreement, choose the mac parition (which it should have found by now), and proceed with customising your installation - DO NOT install the Intel version if you're using an AMD chip - this is asking for trouble if your a nooB, and requires a bit of fiddling with Darwin to get it working again. If you are dual booting, then after the install has finished. Kick your USB dongle again, change the active partition back to whatever it was before, and then copy the file chain0 to your C:\ drive (assuming C: is where your bootloader boot.ini file is). Add the entry "C:\chain0=MacOS X" to your boot ini to allow the ntldr to kick Darwin's chainloader in to Mac OS X - ah, sweet!. tip. once in MacOS X, read the guides on how to change the SystemConfiguration preferences to get a bigger screen resolution, and also how to enable Audio if you need to - LineOut PCM is used as default rather than SPDIF. Good luck!. I doubt it's of any use as you can't even get the install disc itself to start. =/ :EDIT: What exactly happens when you put the disc in? Do you get a boot.plist error or does it just hang at the grey screen? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94838-booting-install-dvd-comapplebootplist-not-found/#findComment-676015 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha2zulu00 Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=675957 Different HP, but same problem. Try it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94838-booting-install-dvd-comapplebootplist-not-found/#findComment-676051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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