dasepsilon Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 i have a (noname) gericom notebook with a pentium IV mobile sse2 and pae, and after some tweaking i have now a booting partition, but instead of a loginscreen (or postinstallationroutines) i simply have a bluescreen (at 1024x768, thats nice) and a mouse pointer (not a spinning rainbow-ball). thats it. what i did so far: 1. installed a fresh new macosx 10.4.6 jas on a native partition (with intel sse2 patch) 2. deleted applePS2controller.ext that was killing everything off 3. installed macvidia driver 1.0.8 by hand, since the notebook has a geforce fx5250 go, and crashes without extradrivers (i suppose it loads, else i wouldn't have that lovely blue screen, that is: it does recognize my lcd and its resolution, i can see that when booting with -v) so, i cannot figure out, why i get a blue screen with a mousepointer. i already tried hooking up my external lcd, but the only thing that happens is that i have a teared mousepointer (or better 6 of them) on the external, while the internal shows just only a bluescreen (dont understand how to disable to internal one, is that needed?) ah, i also tried -x just in case how can i somewhat see where it hangs? some kind of /var/log would be nice thanks for any hint!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 In Terminal, type: sudo dmesg To see logs, go to Utilities folder and open Console. Click on Logs in Toolbar. Click on system.log and console.log Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasepsilon Posted November 25, 2006 Author Share Posted November 25, 2006 In Terminal, type: sudo dmesg To see logs, go to Utilities folder and open Console. Click on Logs in Toolbar. Click on system.log and console.log thanks, technical problem is: single mode is no problem, kextloading the nvidia drivers do not pose any problems either. but i cannot see/do anything as soon as the graphic card comes up (except moving a mousepointer over a blue screen). so how can i dmesg? (is there is an equivalent of alt+ctrl+F1?) i also tried paperclipmethod, no luck either titan and also natit didnt work (at all). damn, its just there, but i cant see it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 Boot into single user mode (F8 then -s). At prompt, type: mount -uw / more /var/log/system.log (or: cat /var/log/system.log) (hit Space bar to page forward, Control-Z to quit) (and maybe: ) more /var/log/windowserver.log (or: cat /var/log/windowserver.log) cd /Library/Logs/Console/501 more console.log (or: cat console.log) more console.log.0 (or: cat console.log.0) more console.log.1 (or: cat console.log.1) Verify that there isn't another file you must edit like GeForce.kext or other like you must do for Titan/Natit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasepsilon Posted November 25, 2006 Author Share Posted November 25, 2006 __STUPID__ ME.. the installation i used, though it booted up very good, was broken (some self power-off of the notebook), a simple re-installation did the trick. except that pressing any key on my laptopkeyboard makes the computer crash.. hope those hacked ps2 kexts will do the trick.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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