waradmin Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 I downloaded the Apple.OS.X.x86.10.4.Generic.Install.DVD and burnt the ISO to a dvd, put it in my Dell GX260 (P4 1.9 with SSE2, 512MB ram, 30GB HD), and it booted off the DVD, i selected Darwin and it loaded the apple screen. All appears good up to this point. Then it got to the install screen, and it errors out. I get a message saying that the install could not complete. Then when i try to run the DVD with the -V paramater, I get the text output of the boot much like any other linux/unix OS ive used, then i get this error that keeps going on the screen: disk1s2: I/O error. SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, ASC = 0x11, ASCQ = 0x00usually its ASCQ = 0x06 Any advice? Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 Those errors are kind of "normal". You can try install with VMWare. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/#findComment-24186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
waradmin Posted October 24, 2005 Author Share Posted October 24, 2005 I got past this, i reburnt the dvd, odly enough it got me to the install screen. But now its not showing my hard drive when it asks to select where to install the OS. Any ideas on why its doing that? Note im not doing this in VM Ware im installing this onto the system directly off the boot DVD. Do i need to blank the hard drive first? Currently it has NTFS partitions which i thought would just read as forign partitions in the OS X installation. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/#findComment-24189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 Specs? If your disk is on SATA channel Mac OS X can't see it, only if your chipset is Intel and BIOS setting is (ugh, search in the forum I just forget it). Also, did you try Disk Utility to partition the Disk? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/#findComment-24193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
waradmin Posted October 24, 2005 Author Share Posted October 24, 2005 I just have a normal IDE 30GB Seagate drive. I went into the disk utility and deleted all the partitions and formated it. Im currently writing 0's to all the free space to get all the data off of it. Ill let you know if that works. Tell me now please if you know for sure that wont work. Thanks Steve Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/#findComment-24194 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 just an extra suggestion; make sure you only have 1 IDE controller enabled, with the hd as master & the DVDROM as slave... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/#findComment-24196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
waradmin Posted October 24, 2005 Author Share Posted October 24, 2005 I wish i could only have 1 IDE controller enabled. Sadly with the Dell Optiplex series the DVD/CD rom drives are laptop drives so you cant have them on a standard IDE cable. Partitioning the drive and writing zeros to the free space in Disk Utility did work. Now im starting the installation, I hope it finishes successfully. *crosses fingers* PS: I had to put in a PCI ATI card because my onboard Intel Graphics on my Dell GX260mobo showed distorted and only black and white picture, and I couldnt read any of the text. Sadly the case is an Optiplex form factor so i cant close the case because the videocard is about 2 inches taller than the case. Any ideas on getting video working. -Steve Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/#findComment-24203 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 For ATI Cards delete ATI* kexts, for your non working Intel VidCard delete the AppleIntel* kexts, then maybe will work copying AppleIntel* kexts from Darwin CD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/#findComment-24388 Share on other sites More sharing options...
waradmin Posted October 26, 2005 Author Share Posted October 26, 2005 I will give the AppleIntel* kexts a try later. As for getting the install working i was able to do that. Even though the install finished and said there were errors im able to successfully get into the operating system by booting from the bootable DVD and pressing F8 then typing: rd=disk0s1 Success i got the OS working. And it took me only a few hours. Thanks for all the help guys and gals. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/#findComment-24431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 26, 2005 Share Posted October 26, 2005 You can try to boot with the Darwin CD, then don't isntall it, just ask for the shell, then bless your partition (is an instruction to make your partition bootable). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/#findComment-24533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizkapn Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 Hi, just a suggestion. You dont need to go through so much trouble when preparing your disk for install. Just start installation, if your disk does not show up for the install destination click Utilities menu then Disk Utility, then delete/recreate partition and format it, after format it should mount the partition for you, if it doesnt just click on the mount button with the partition selected. I had the same errors you did and I also had to re-burn dvd, then my HD would not show so I figured it just wasnt mounting properly and i found that apple's built in Disk Utility was the perfect solution. Enjoy! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/#findComment-25789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_the_killer Posted November 4, 2005 Share Posted November 4, 2005 I wish i could only have 1 IDE controller enabled. Sadly with the Dell Optiplex series the DVD/CD rom drives are laptop drives so you cant have them on a standard IDE cable. Partitioning the drive and writing zeros to the free space in Disk Utility did work. Now im starting the installation, I hope it finishes successfully. *crosses fingers* PS: I had to put in a PCI ATI card because my onboard Intel Graphics on my Dell GX260mobo showed distorted and only black and white picture, and I couldnt read any of the text. Sadly the case is an Optiplex form factor so i cant close the case because the videocard is about 2 inches taller than the case. Any ideas on getting video working. -Steve This is a known problem with boards having onboard vga. just try to increase the amount on video memory from the BIOS to more than 16MB(32MB is optimal), Since that OS X requires more than 16MB of VRAM. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/#findComment-26387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blagmaster Posted November 4, 2005 Share Posted November 4, 2005 i am having the exact same i/o error - and when i use the mac disk utility it just fails with 'input/output error' message instantly... any ideas how else i can partition my drive? [pc: dell inspiron 6000, hdd: fujitsu 80gb sata] nice one Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/#findComment-26390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dscrap Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Specs? If your disk is on SATA channel Mac OS X can't see it, only if your chipset is Intel and BIOS setting is (ugh, search in the forum I just forget it). Also, did you try Disk Utility to partition the Disk? Hi, just a suggestion. You dont need to go through so much trouble when preparing your disk for install. Just start installation, if your disk does not show up for the install destination click Utilities menu then Disk Utility, then delete/recreate partition and format it, after format it should mount the partition for you, if it doesnt just click on the mount button with the partition selected. I had the same errors you did and I also had to re-burn dvd, then my HD would not show so I figured it just wasnt mounting properly and i found that apple's built in Disk Utility was the perfect solution. Enjoy! Did either of you find out how to boot with the DVD and install to a SATA hard drive? I tried the Disk Utility and my SATA hard drive just wont show up. I have a Dell Dimension 5150 with ICH7 and Raid 1... I do have kext patches for the ICH7, but don't know how or where to put them on the DVD. Is it possible to replace the kexts some how and force the DVD to see my SATA drive? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/#findComment-29167 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dscrap Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 Did either of you find out how to boot with the DVD and install to a SATA hard drive? I tried the Disk Utility and my SATA hard drive just wont show up. I have a Dell Dimension 5150 with ICH7 and Raid 1... I do have kext patches for the ICH7, but don't know how or where to put them on the DVD. Is it possible to replace the kexts some how and force the DVD to see my SATA drive? Thanks I now have my system up and running. I ended up buying a new Dell Dimension 5150 and using it for my system, It has the following: P4 630 945G ICH7 SATA with RAID 1 Sigmatel STAC9220 audio Intel GMA950 video Intel Nic I haven't got the audio working as of yet. I had to install from my 10.4.1 DVD image to an IDE hard drive then edit the AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext file to get the system to boot from the SATA hard drive. Several of the patches I initially used didn't have all the correct settings for the ICH7. I added several patches and it seems to be running well. I did get an initial xbench of around 62, bu now I am in the 40 range. Not sure why the drop, must be one of the patches I added. I am so new to mac/linux, its going to take me a bit of time to figure out how to edit settings to get my system perfect. I just need to figure out a way to get the audio to work and I will be golden for now. I still want an actual Mactel when they come out, maybe after the price settles. I hear they are comming out with an iBook and iMac in January... The long version.... I couldn't get the DVD install to see my SATA drive and installed on an IDE hard drive for starters. Well after 2 days of pulling my hair out, I finally got it… Thanks to Erick for pointing me in the right direction. I did quite a bit of reading to figure this out, this is what I did. First off, I added the 945gExtensions.pkg patch which added the SATA and video among other things. I kept thinking about a post on how to edited the kext file and added the vendor and device ID’s. I was sure that after adding the 945gExtensions.pkg that the SATA was working since I could see the SATA hard drive in OSX that was on my IDE drive. I just couldn’t boot or install to it. Well I was half right, the info.plist had only one of the vendor and device ID’s in it. The one for IDE in bold below… 27c0 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=IDE 27c1 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=AHCI 27c3 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=RAID I had to do a lot of reading in order to figure that out. I didn’t know how to edit the kext files. This is how I did it… 1. Open the /system/library/extensions/ folder and copied the AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext to the desktop by right clicking it (dragging it may also work) and copying it then pasting it to the desktop. 2. Then rename the original kext AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext to AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext.old in the /system/library/extensions/ folder. 3. Right click on the AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext file on the desktop and select “show package contents”. 4. In the new window that opens, you will see the package contents and the Info.plist file. Right click on the Info.plist file and select “Open > with” and the select texedit. 5. Now scroll down to the section that says “ICH6 Serial ATA Controller” and go to the line <key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key> and just below it edit the string as follows: <string>0x27c08086 0x27c18086 0x27c38086</string> this adds the IDE, AHCI, and RAID for the ICH7 Serial controller. Remove anything else that is between the <string> and </string> 6. Now save the file and close the text editor. Also close the open package so you are bak to the desktop. 7. Open the extensions folder again and now drag the AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext file you just edited into it. If you are prompted to authenticate, do so and enter your password. 8. Almost done… Now go to the Applications/Utilities folder and open Terminal. 9. In terminal, type the following: “sudo chmod –R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext” minus the quotes and hit enter. You may need your password… 10. Again in terminal type the following: “sudo chown –R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext” minus the quotes. 11. Close terminal. 12. Open the /System/Library/ folder and delete extensions.mkext and extensions.kextcache. 13. Reboot and you are golden!!! Use -f -v when you get to the Darwin prompt. I tried with out it, but it hangs at waiting for root device. You may only need to do this after the firs and second reboot... I hope this helps everyone out. It took me days to figure it out and put together from all of the different posts. You can edit other kext files in the same manner by changing the file name. Good luck, I am off to play with OSX! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/#findComment-29352 Share on other sites More sharing options...
val Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 thanks a lot for the tips. i will try myself tomorrow. is there any chance that these modifications could be done to the original dvd-iso? then you would not necessarily have to get an ide drive, or don't you? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3801-dvd-install-problems/#findComment-47357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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