frasiercraver Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Any help would be greatly appreciated! I installed the 10.5.2 Kalyway DVD onto my laptop a few days ago and have ever since been searching for a fix for my problem. The problem is that I install Kalyway successfully, but when i reboot it loads up past the Apple logo, and then there is a blue screen for a little bit and then it stalls at a black screen. I have tried booting into single user mode and typing in "mount -uw /" and "/movevideodrivers" but it hasn't worked...I just get an error message. I haven't found any other possible way to fix it, after searching this forum for days. If you can help I would be greatly satisfied. Thanks! P.S. I think my graphics card is an Intel GMA 950, though I'm not sure...is there any way to tell? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110014-black-screen-after-successful-kalyway-1052-dvd-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kytzu Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Don't tick any graphic driver from the installation menu, if you put any incompatible kext with your graphic card you'll get a black screen. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110014-black-screen-after-successful-kalyway-1052-dvd-install/#findComment-779739 Share on other sites More sharing options...
frasiercraver Posted June 11, 2008 Author Share Posted June 11, 2008 Yep, I've tried that...I still get the black screen. could it be that my hard drive is partitioned as GUID? is this release compatible with GUID or should I change it to MBR? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110014-black-screen-after-successful-kalyway-1052-dvd-install/#findComment-779955 Share on other sites More sharing options...
m.mix Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Hey!! You ned to boot then press F8 Then type: -v then press Enter Ffter root type: mount -uw / then: / movevideodrivers Then type YES after all drivers goup (Sorry for bad english) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110014-black-screen-after-successful-kalyway-1052-dvd-install/#findComment-786158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSN Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 After you do the ./movevideodirvers (which is actually useless) you need to ERASE those drivers in the /system/library/extensions. I had the same problem, did the movevideodrivers and still had the problem until I erased the NVidia, GeForce, NVInject and every driver. In your case, those are the appleIntel*** driver. Hope it works. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110014-black-screen-after-successful-kalyway-1052-dvd-install/#findComment-788885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToGaR Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 Actually, don't erase the GeForce or the NVDANV**Hal files unless you do NOT have an nVidia card. The 2 GeForce files are required for nVidia cards. The NVInject, NVkush, and natit files can be deleted to get you to a basic, lo-res screen. Are you waiting long enough for it to boot? I was having a long booting issue. It was taking my machine 7-10mins to boot. It would get stuck at a black screen then finely boot and run perfectly. I discovered that the system was getting hung up on one of my USB devices. Try booting without any plugged in and see what happens. Also, when ever you have a question, please put your system specs. It can help us to solve your problem faster. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110014-black-screen-after-successful-kalyway-1052-dvd-install/#findComment-789999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddish Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Hey!! You ned to boot then press F8 Then type: -v then press Enter Ffter root type: mount -uw / then: / movevideodrivers Then type YES after all drivers goup I did this and it solved the problem with my screen going black, but now I don't have the correct drivers for my GeForce 8600GT. Could anyone give me a step by step guide to installing the correct drivers? I'm a total n00b when it comes to OSX and the commands etc. I would really appreciate the help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110014-black-screen-after-successful-kalyway-1052-dvd-install/#findComment-830795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
plastik8 Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 I too am having the same problems with the below system. Funny thing is that in the past I have installed Kalyway 10.5.2 and it worked no problems. Now I'm just trying to remember which kernel/graphics driver combination I used! Is there any randomness to it at all? I swear I have tried the same combination since but to no avail. So, how does one re-install the correct video drivers after moving them to the backup folder? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110014-black-screen-after-successful-kalyway-1052-dvd-install/#findComment-837604 Share on other sites More sharing options...
codeblue2k Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Hey!! You ned to boot then press F8 Then type: -v then press Enter Ffter root type: mount -uw / then: / movevideodrivers Then type YES after all drivers goup (Sorry for bad english) Im having this same issue and want to give this a try but in not quite sure what he means by "Ffter root type: mount -uw /" I hit F8, typed -v and then the windows installed loaded as normal. Is that what is supposed to happen? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110014-black-screen-after-successful-kalyway-1052-dvd-install/#findComment-839522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratherGroggy Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 I am having the same problem, except instead of stalling on black, about 3/4 of the screen is blue, 1/4 black. I've tried to "mount -uw /" and do the "/movevideodrivers" but it says "movevideodrivers" is not a valid filename or folder. Any help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110014-black-screen-after-successful-kalyway-1052-dvd-install/#findComment-876927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
smnhtkmpr Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 hi all! have the same problem... after successful installation of kalyway 10.5.2 my pc reboots - after the grey loading screen the screen turns black. motherboard: gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 (rev. 2.0 ; updated bios to F13) graphics: NVIDIA Gefroce 8600GT 256 MB (used nvinject 256 at installation) i tried solving this problem with the instructions that come with the kaly dvd : Notes: if you have problems on reboot with video gfx (blue or black screen) All you have to do is just press F8 at Darwin's prompt and then type -s (single user mode) then at root type mount -uw / and /movevideodrivers then it will be prompt to move video drivers by class ( nvidia ; ati ; or intel gma) voila! type yes to confirm or enter to skip! but that didn't work... i got the error : "read-only filesystem" ... so actually it couldn't be changed nothing. so i tried this howto. but that also won't solve my problem... so: hope someone can help me with this problem?? would be very pity if my osx86 adventure ends here -.- greets simon Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110014-black-screen-after-successful-kalyway-1052-dvd-install/#findComment-918989 Share on other sites More sharing options...
smnhtkmpr Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 no idea? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110014-black-screen-after-successful-kalyway-1052-dvd-install/#findComment-919674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
obelixtaiwan Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Hi Simon I tried that that method in the of the linked page in your post. The first time it also didn't work for me, then i went back and checked it again. I made some errors like legacy i spelled legency, it didn't give me an error it just didnt do anything, and some commands i was to hasty so they were not executed fully. Maybe try again, and remember the difference between upper and lowercase that was alos one of my mistakes, especilly the rm -rf NV*.* i used nv*.* and its not the same. Good Luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110014-black-screen-after-successful-kalyway-1052-dvd-install/#findComment-989213 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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