Stuck on white screen with black bar on first boot after installation

[sstoveld]

Just tried your suggestions, no go . No display, no signs of activity. Caps lock light does not light up when caps lock is on. I guess it just might not be meant to be lol. Maybe I'll try it on my desktop later, or maybe just wait for everything to become more stable or easier . I appreciate the help, but i'm just way too frustrated to keep trying over and over with no progress lol

 

Thanks again, maybe I'll try again later

[ForestGuardian]

Against all odds, I've gotten iDeneb 10.5.5 running on a Toshiba Satellite AMD with the ATIX1200 (no video acceleration). You may want to try that build and see if OSx86 can indeed run on your laptop model.

 

If you don't already have that ISO, you know where to find it ;-)

 

Laters.

[sstoveld]

Hm I've never thought of using a different package. Ideneb is a completely different image than ipc? Anything I should know about that may be different than ipc?

[ForestGuardian]

iDeneb was the first build that got 10.5.4 (eventually a 10.5.5 ISO was released) running on my current tower -- at least until Boot-132 and Chameleon EFI came around to allow less troublesome vanilla installations. iDeneb itself provides a bare-bones installation, networking, 1024x768 locked resolution (due to the X1200 pile of slag), no audio (ALC268 is hopeless)... but it's a step up from Kalyway. I tried a vanilla installation once on this A210, but even with either of the Voodoo and XNU kernels, I got nothing but root device errors and the infinite restart bug =/

 

Anyways. Another night, another try.

[SticMAC™]

The screen issue you describe is well known!

It is caused by a higher frequency refresh rate than what the screen can handle!

 

This is VERY common on GMA X3100 displays. having said that, there are some solutions but they involve a fair amount of skill and detailed knowhow!?

 

Firstly: You need to know that LCD on MOST notebooks can only handle 60HZ, which is also the cause of your headache!

 

Secondly: you need to know that the Graphics output files from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6 changed, especially those of the GMA X3100, this means you'll need a mix of kexts, from 10.5.5 and 10.5.6 to get it going

 

Thirdly: You need to download a program called SwitchResX it allows you to switch the default refresh frequency of your output, by setting up a custom display and refresh rate, set to 60Hz. When you get it to boot into OSX you can use SwitchResX to set up this custom display at the correct frequency before you start adding kexts! Remember after youve added your custom settings to reboot but you wont see any changes until you loaded the correct kexts

 

Fourthly: You should do a install with the minimum of patched kexts, ie, ONLY load the AHCI specific kext, just to get it to recognise your HDD and boot into OSX. Then if this issue occurs on the first boot, use the following bootprompt by using F8 on startup:

"Graphics Mode"="1680x1050x32@60"

(the graphics size should be set for the maximium YOUR screen can handle(mine is:1680x1050), the @60 is the refreshrate all LCDs can handle)

 

Last: On the forum there are post on bridging the output of you VGA connector on the side of you laptop with a small wire/paperclip, this is sometimes the only way to do the initial setup, so do a search on that and see if that doesn't solve your initial problem, that way you should be able to boot into OSX, and load SwitchResX or load my posted kexts!

 

I have previously made a compilation of kexts for the GMA X3100 for pre 10.5.6

http://www.mediafire.com/?zmycm0mmny0

and for 10.5.6

http://www.mediafire.com/?m0tgj5ygzzi

which after some fiddling came to work on my previous system, the links provided might help, how you're going to load them without being able to get into OSX is up to you, if you know how to work in "Single User" mode then you should have no problem!

 

 

Good luck

 

SticMAC

ps I dont have that machine any more! My NEW Alu Macbook is just great!!

 

 

edit: I see you have a second machine so you should be able to access your notebook drive by removing it and putting it into a USB adaptor then add my patched kexts?

[sstoveld]

Well I was just about to try your suggestion till I realized that when using the disk utility to try and do another install, it doesn't show my drive. So I can't format or partition it anymore. I've been up 22 hours, I can't handle this right now. Maybe I'll give it another try tomrrow. Thanks for the help.

[sstoveld]

just tried an install of iAtkos 5i but same result as before. Maybe my laptop is just not compatible with osx86

[ForestGuardian]

I can't think of any other method besides being able to remove specific Kexts using Terminal, or somehow cloning a customized post-installation from an external drive onto your laptop's drive -- while using the DVD to boot in both cases. I find it ridiculous that you can load fine from the DVD, whereas the most bare minimum installation creates a non-functional system.

 

The iPC, and apparently iAtkos5i, and I'm going to just throw in every public release here while I'm at it, add something in your extensions folder that:

1. Delivers too little power or none at all to your PCI bridge to the GMAX3100 - the likely culprits are IOPCI and ACPI, both used for power management

2. Forces the GMAX3100 to go into a resolution and/or refresh rate that is incompatible -- I no longer think this applies, because having ZERO graphic drivers should not give you the black and white striated screen. **

 

** To verify this, your best option is to get a build that lets you call a script that removes all graphic drivers completely from even the most base installation. I THINK this is a customized script, not found in vanilla Leopard. Only Kalyway has this, as far as I know, and perhaps Leo4All, but I've never used the latter.

 

Sorry! >_< I mentioned removing power management before, but didn't even think of Kalyway's build for removing video drivers. It's possible that iPC, iAtkos, and Kalyway still add native video kexts and bundles, even if none of the custom kexts are selected. Even with no video selected, I had to use a /movevideodrivers script before booting Kalyway 10.5.2 on my Toshiba laptop, or I would get a completely black screen - but it was solid, no flicker.

 

I know it's a hassle, but you can try a Kalyway ISO, or find the script itself somewhere, copy it to a thumb drive, and call it while booting from the DVD.

 

Keep at it a little longer, or just forget about it, and tackle the project again on the weekend or next week. If you can boot from a DVD, and 2 different builds now, there's a method of installation that will definitely work for you.

[sstoveld]

I think I might give it a try on my desktop with vmware workstation. See how that goes. Thanks for the help man

 

Edit: no good

[sstoveld]

The screen issue you describe is well known!

It is caused by a higher frequency refresh rate than what the screen can handle!

 

This is VERY common on GMA X3100 displays. having said that, there are some solutions but they involve a fair amount of skill and detailed knowhow!?

 

Firstly: You need to know that LCD on MOST notebooks can only handle 60HZ, which is also the cause of your headache!

 

Secondly: you need to know that the Graphics output files from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6 changed, especially those of the GMA X3100, this means you'll need a mix of kexts, from 10.5.5 and 10.5.6 to get it going

 

Thirdly: You need to download a program called SwitchResX it allows you to switch the default refresh frequency of your output, by setting up a custom display and refresh rate, set to 60Hz. When you get it to boot into OSX you can use SwitchResX to set up this custom display at the correct frequency before you start adding kexts! Remember after youve added your custom settings to reboot but you wont see any changes until you loaded the correct kexts

 

Fourthly: You should do a install with the minimum of patched kexts, ie, ONLY load the AHCI specific kext, just to get it to recognise your HDD and boot into OSX. Then if this issue occurs on the first boot, use the following bootprompt by using F8 on startup:

"Graphics Mode"="1680x1050x32@60"

(the graphics size should be set for the maximium YOUR screen can handle(mine is:1680x1050), the @60 is the refreshrate all LCDs can handle)

 

Last: On the forum there are post on bridging the output of you VGA connector on the side of you laptop with a small wire/paperclip, this is sometimes the only way to do the initial setup, so do a search on that and see if that doesn't solve your initial problem, that way you should be able to boot into OSX, and load SwitchResX or load my posted kexts!

 

I have previously made a compilation of kexts for the GMA X3100 for pre 10.5.6

http://www.mediafire.com/?zmycm0mmny0

and for 10.5.6

http://www.mediafire.com/?m0tgj5ygzzi

which after some fiddling came to work on my previous system, the links provided might help, how you're going to load them without being able to get into OSX is up to you, if you know how to work in "Single User" mode then you should have no problem!

Good luck

 

SticMAC

ps I dont have that machine any more! My NEW Alu Macbook is just great!!

edit: I see you have a second machine so you should be able to access your notebook drive by removing it and putting it into a USB adaptor then add my patched kexts?

Well I just tried installing with ahci kext by itself, still got that weird screen. So I tried booting with "Graphics Mode"="1280x900x32@60" but still no go

[sstoveld]

Just tried iDeneb 1.5.5 but no go :censored2:

[ForestGuardian]

When was your last successful Windows boot on your laptop? If none of the ACPI fixes or PowerManagement bundles in iPC and iDeneb work, then you might have a hardware fault.

 

If it's not defective hardware, then you still need a way to get rid of the incompatible kexts that the installers are placing on your drive. The only way I know of to do that is through Terminal. Somehow, you have to get a full list of what's in there (or know exactly what to remove), then you can go in and delete the possible offending kext(s).

 

OR -- Use another machine on which you can install Leopard onto a USB drive, edit that installation, and then use it as an external boot drive for your laptop. Then, you can repeat the process for the laptop drive itself.