Lukepools Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 hello, After a few failed attempts at installing Leopard, I was finally able to get it to install. The hour long process was going good until the first reboot. I did the boot disk thing and put the DVD back in the drive. It read the hard drive then read the DVD drive and then the grey screen of death came on. I knew this was trouble. I think my retail disk is 10.5.1 I have a GIGABYTE E45-DS3R Mobo EVGA 8800GT A 750GB Harddrive SATA paritioned in three sizes SATA DVD ROM/Burner Intel E8500 chipset I did the "-v" to see all the processes, but I haven't see anything alarming. Everything goes by so fast, I can't scroll after its finished. I have basic knowledge. It took me 3 days to get to this point. Please help. Thanks! I saw someone say do "-x" instead of "-v". It seemed to be working for longer this time, but still got the screen of death. This is what I got with -v. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/129591-grey-screen-of-death-after-install-and-reboot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunDevil2008 Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 hello, After a few failed attempts at installing Leopard, I was finally able to get it to install. The hour long process was going good until the first reboot. I did the boot disk thing and put the DVD back in the drive. It read the hard drive then read the DVD drive and then the grey screen of death came on. I knew this was trouble. I think my retail disk is 10.5.1 I have a GIGABYTE E45-DS3R Mobo EVGA 8800GT A 750GB Harddrive SATA paritioned in three sizes SATA DVD ROM/Burner Intel E8500 chipset I did the "-v" to see all the processes, but I haven't see anything alarming. Everything goes by so fast, I can't scroll after its finished. I have basic knowledge. It took me 3 days to get to this point. Please help. Thanks! I saw someone say do "-x" instead of "-v". It seemed to be working for longer this time, but still got the screen of death. This is what I got with -v. I have the same mobo. Suggestions: Make sure AHCI is enabled. boot with -f try that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/129591-grey-screen-of-death-after-install-and-reboot/#findComment-918051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukepools Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 Thanks for your reply. AHCI was originally enabled. I tried -f. It booted faster, but still got the screen of death. I am wondering if I should reinstall it. But I don't know how to do it again from the boot screen. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/129591-grey-screen-of-death-after-install-and-reboot/#findComment-918062 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukepools Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 I think I found my problem. Or at least one of them. While the computer was booting up, this came up. IT was at start up, before the iso disk reads in the drive. System config file '/com.apple.boot.S/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguartion/com.apple.Boot.plist' not found How can I fix that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/129591-grey-screen-of-death-after-install-and-reboot/#findComment-918079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukepools Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 bump Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/129591-grey-screen-of-death-after-install-and-reboot/#findComment-918700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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