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10.4.4 install hangs with blue screen and "spinning wheel"


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I've gone through Part 1 of "You Know Who's" instructions with the v1 patch files, and each time I do, I end up with a blue screen and a spinning wheel. I've left it running for about 45 mins and it just hangs each time I've tried.

 

I'm installing natively onto a PATA drive from a freshly installed 10.4.3 (JaS 4.2b patch) on the same drive - the drive is partitioned as follows:

10.4.4 Primary HFS+ partition

10.4.3 Primary HFS+ partition

Primary NTFS data partition (music)

 

My hardware spec is as follows:

AMD Athlon 64 3700 San Diego

ABit AN8 Ultra NForce4 Motherboard

3Com 3C905 NIC

nVidia 6200 Turbo Cache PCI-E Graphics Card

 

Any ideas? I've not tried via VMWare yet - that's next on my list, although a certain place that must not be named has disappeared so I'll leave it for the time being.

 

Hope someone can help.

Ant

What do you see, if you boot with the '-v' switch?

 

If I carry on through Part 2 of "his" instructions and boot with the -v (or -s) switch, I get the following error (shortly after the resolution changes) constantly repeated down the screen:

 

AppleFWOHCI_AsyncReceive::waitForDMA - context not going inactive

 

Is there any way of doing a logged install to maybe find what's causing the Part 1 install (i.e. when running OSInstall.pkg)?

Update: Googled and found that AppleFWOHCI is something to do with Firewire. Just out of curiosity, I disabled Firewire in my BIOS and tried again. Locked up at the end of Part 1 as before.

 

Will try VMWare tonight to see if it's "user error".

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