SamuelTee Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Hey everyone, booting works until then following message appears: "VGA: family specific matching fails" then it just stops and nothing happens. (I tried -x too...) Thnx. My System: Pentium M 725 ATI 9700 Mobile 512 MB RAM 80GB Harddrive Synoptics Touchpad v4.6 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Try booting into single user mode... (-s at boot prompt). Then once you get to the prompt, do the steps that will be displayed to mount the root filesystem. Then type 'su', and enter your root password. Next, cd /System/Library/Extensions. In there delete every ATI file, but I don't recall their exact names off-hand. Worth a try, at least it let my HP Compaq NC6000 get past that message when I did this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuelTee Posted August 25, 2005 Author Share Posted August 25, 2005 Thnx... but still the same problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Sorry. You are using the deadmoo image, right? And what is the laptop brand and all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuelTee Posted August 25, 2005 Author Share Posted August 25, 2005 Sorry. You are using the deadmoo image, right? And what is the laptop brand and all? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm using the tiger-x86-flat.img i got from torrent.... My Laptop is an ASUS M6Ne. Too bad, I hope anyone knows the error... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuelTee Posted August 25, 2005 Author Share Posted August 25, 2005 Here's a screenshot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlatEric Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 Got the identical problem, even in safe mode, and got the same hardware....please UP...anyway i tried to: 1- delete ATI9700gldrive.bundle (actually renaming it, i have only win, no mac, so i don't want to DD again if i lose some files) 2- edit /System/Library/Extensions/AppleI386PCI.kext/Contents/Info.plist with my cpu->agp bridge (actually the same from davidred, pci8086,3341) I noted that darwin at its boot, before specify the boot options, says that i have a 9600 128megs, but i actually have a 9700 128 megs..so it could be the same problem with 9600 friends (let me crosspost for this, it could be useful for both topics) starting both in safe or not mode hangs at the same point....actually not the same, but i think for the same problem...when in safe mode it hangs with this "VGA: family specific matching fails" for 3 times, and in normal hangs at synaptic mouse recognizing, but after displaying 2 times "VGA: family specific matching fails" so now i'm going to add at /etc/rc the ATIRadeon9700 kext, and let see if it starts or it hangs again...the bad thing is that in /Library/Log/CrashReporter/ there's no crash report except two old ones from the image that i DDed (tiger-x86-flat.img), so they don't care...this is gorgeus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kujila Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 I had this problem too. Try using an un-modified tiger img file and dd it to a partition/drive. Then boot with platform=X86PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlatEric Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 what? could you tell me better? should i use not the deadmoo's tiger image? you're my hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuelTee Posted September 13, 2005 Author Share Posted September 13, 2005 @FlatEric: was it successful.... where did you get the unmodified img? what does that mean: "boot with platform=X86PC" Thnx anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlatEric Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 didn't find, no time by know, damned university, my bachelor is taking me time...when i'll be finished with this i want it to work!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix86 Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 hi all, for fix vga problem at boot follow this istruction: - reboot system in single mode exec in shell: mount -uw / - go to /System/Library/Extensions - make a directory in your home (root home is /var/root, for others users is /Users/"shortname") - move all video extension to this new folder, except your Video Extension ( my video card is Intel830, my extension is IONDRVSupport.kext, AppleIntelIntegratedGraphics.kext and AppleIntel830* ) now exec: sync sh /etc/rc if view blue screen and login windows... work! else see into every video extension (.kext) and find the dependencies (another method for find dependencies is manual load extension with: kextload -t file.kext if extension not load you can view every error ) enjoy man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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