So i have recently attempted to install OSX twice now with two different isos (one older and one more recent) and as soon as my drive attempts to boot from cd, i get the above error.

Please forgive me if this is obvious as i'm no OSX veteran(far from it). However, i cannot think of any obvious reason for this.

My Specs(In short..):

Core 2 Quad
ABIT IP-35PRO
2GB Crucial Ballistix 8500
8800 GTS 640
M-Audio Revolution
Some generic DVDRW drive
IDE HDD (for now)




Help would be greatly appreciated... =)

how did you burn the iso? might be the cause..

I opened the iso with nero, which took me straight to the burning process. Are there any specific settings i should apply? Maybe use another program like Alcohol?

Zeosanity, your motherboard has jmicron, very few people have managed to get the OSX installer DVDs to boot on systems with that chipset, you get the bootlist error. Your problem is probably 99% because of that.

This affects all motherboards with jmicron, there is little that you can do about it. Workarounds include using a ide to sata connector to connect your ide DVD to a sata port, or a ide to USB connector to boot the DVD and install the system. Once installed it can recognize and work with jmicron chipsets.

Another way is to use Vmware to install the system on a real partition. There is a thread on how to install osx with your particular chipset at insanelymac and on using the vmware method. Best of luck.

Thanks a bunch! I have a few of those adapters lying around so will try that first and report back.