prohibitory sign on startup

[mitch9654]

When I boot mac os tiger, a grey screen appears with a dark grey apple. It loads, and then a grey cancel sign (prohibitory sign) come up. Mac never completes booting...

:'(

mitch9654

[Imkantus]

Welcome to InfiniteMac Community,

Please share some more information about your Hardware (specially the used mainboard or your chipset) and the installation method you are trying - guess it's some prepatched system as you wrote something about using Tiger. - without more information noone will be able to support you.

[mitch9654]

I have Win XP installed tri booting with ubuntu 9.10 and 8.04 on one WDC WD1200BB-22GUA0 HD, and I have a second HD with mac tiger on it.

I have 2.59 GHz CPU, and 1GB of RAM

My motherboard is a 2005/06 top-of-the-line gateway motherboard

Lastly, I installed Tiger from a dvd from my bios, and just followed the normal steps (though I formatted the hd with macdrive)

I don't know what other specs are required

mitch9654

[Imkantus]

At least the ones you gave are pure nonsense.

Go ahead and boot Ubuntu, open Termnial and hit this two commands, and post the results:

sudo lspci -nn
sudo cat /proc/cpuinfo

[mitch9654]

from the first command

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2570] (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller [8086:2571] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24d2] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24d4] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24d7] (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:24de] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24dd] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:24d0] (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller [8086:24db] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller [8086:24d1] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller [8086:24d3] (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24d5] (rev 02)
01:00.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI [1274:5880] (rev 02)
01:08.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller [8086:1050] (rev 02)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] [1002:4153]
02:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] (Secondary) [1002:4173]second

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 2593.558
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pebs bts sync_rdtsc cid xtpr
bogomips : 5191.75
clflush size : 64

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 2593.558
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pebs bts sync_rdtsc cid xtpr
bogomips : 5187.37
clflush size : 64
by the way, I also reformatted the 2nd drive (ATA drive, the one I'll use for mac) back to NTFS

mitch9654

[Imkantus]

Well OK, to install Tiger I would recommend to get "JaS OSx86 10.4.8" image, during setup, customize it and add "JaS Intel 10.4.8 ATA kexts included" this should might fix your chipset issue.
Also you should ensure that your P-ATA drives have correct Primary and Slave configuration - I always had problems with Cable Select or incorrect confs on OS X.

Anyway I would recommend you to get a GeForce 6*** or 7*** series graphics card and install Leopard or Snow Leopard instead of Tiger. Many of the fixes we are using aren't avaible for the greyed old tiger. ;)

[mitch9654]

thanks for your help! :)

though... Is there any way to configure the one that I already have? I have slow internet