ukahmet87 Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Hey guys, im totaly new to this scene, and attempted to dual boot iatkos v7 this morning. My PC setup is: Asus P5B Mobo 500gb samsung HDD NVIDIA 8800 GTS 320mb i've re-partitioned my hard drive to give the MAC partition a 95gb Space, Which is more than enough for me. Ive installed iatkos v7 followed instructions correctly and it said that installation was successful. (Before installation- i went into customize and ticked all boxes) now when i try to load up Leopard, the screen just hangs/freezes............ ive changed a few settings in the bios hoping it will help, but nothing has helped... im not sure what i should do now to be honest? im sorta stuck as ive no experience at all..... can anyone sorta guide me in the right direction? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179988-screen-hangs-at-apple-logo-grey-screen/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jk. Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Tried booting into failsafe? boot with the -x flag, that helped for me then everyting worked perfectly, without failsafe.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179988-screen-hangs-at-apple-logo-grey-screen/#findComment-1226728 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukahmet87 Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 do i do that before installation? or after installation when im going to boot into the OS? ok heres abit of an update, ive reinstalled iatkos v7 but this time i only ticked boxes i need in customize. now when i try load up leaopard i get a kernel panic i think, it says i gota turn off my computer? have i moved a step forward? or backwards lol. can anyone offer some advice? pleaseeeeeeee Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179988-screen-hangs-at-apple-logo-grey-screen/#findComment-1226732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jk. Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 move a step backwards do the -x on boot after installation. But I dont know if that will work, I only tried ideneb v1.5.1 (: good luck ^^ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179988-screen-hangs-at-apple-logo-grey-screen/#findComment-1226756 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukahmet87 Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 im doing the -x by pressing f8 at the darwin boot screen.... but it takes me to the DVD setup for mac? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179988-screen-hangs-at-apple-logo-grey-screen/#findComment-1226760 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandan Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 talking from my experience, i had the same issue... the stop sign on boot. read through a lot of posts on this forum and then some... and tried a few things like booting with -x flag and so on and none helped.. however, from browsing these forums i did get sort of an idea that if the installation has finished successfully then its good news. coz that means, your PC is capable of running hackintosh. all you do now is try to find the perfect combination in the customize menu. i re-installed the OS 6-7 times, and finally my Mac booted up... everything working right from the word go - Video Card, graphics, sound, internet, network - a perfect install. i even upgraded to 10.5.8 from apple update directly and it only seems to be working better. i have now gotten rid of Windows (Vista) completely and am a mac guy only. very soon i will be purchasing my own real macbook. here are a few suggestions for you based on my experience (i am no techno-geek so i can just suggest the brute force methods that i tried and worked): - try to find about your hardware (video card, ethernet, sound card, hard drive controllers and so on) and then browse on these forums for the exact drivers that are supported for them on the mac. enable them ONLY in the customize menu while installing mac. - try installing with the bare minimum components only if you are not sure. for example you are not sure about the ethernet, or you dont know what to choose in the customize menu, leve everything unchecked. you can always update the drivers when you manage to boot into your mac later on. - for me, the hard disk controllers seemed to be the culprit. there is something about changing these controllers (to AHCI, i suppose), somewhere on these forums, look for it. - keep a track of what combos you have used in your customize menu and if it does not work, re-install again with new combinations. for me each re-install took less than 15 minutes so it wasnt so much of a pain (unlike setting up windows). with some good luck and lots of patience you may soon be having a Mac running on your PC. all the best!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179988-screen-hangs-at-apple-logo-grey-screen/#findComment-1226766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukahmet87 Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 ok heres another update, and i think im getting closer............ i re installed, and i get past the screen which has the apple logo with a spinning wheel at the bottom.......... i come to a screen which has a Dark grey background, and a black mouse cursor........ and thats it..... i have no options windows etc............ i can just move the mouse around on the grey screen without being able to do anything else... sound familiar???? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179988-screen-hangs-at-apple-logo-grey-screen/#findComment-1226821 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukahmet87 Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 Please Somebody.... its driving me crazy, i cant get any info form any where......... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179988-screen-hangs-at-apple-logo-grey-screen/#findComment-1226954 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukahmet87 Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 yessssss finally got it done.......!!!!!!!!! i changed the bios settings to IDE Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179988-screen-hangs-at-apple-logo-grey-screen/#findComment-1226980 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandan Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 yessssss finally got it done.......!!!!!!!!! i changed the bios settings to IDE congrats!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179988-screen-hangs-at-apple-logo-grey-screen/#findComment-1226996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukahmet87 Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 lol everything was running perfectly untill voodoo kernel 9.7.0 crashed..... im re installing trying 9.5.0 this time.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179988-screen-hangs-at-apple-logo-grey-screen/#findComment-1227022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAC IN TOSH Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 Hi, I had installed iDeneb v1.3 on my hp dv6000t intel machine and it worked fine. The problem that I am facing is that it hangs on the apple boot logo (grey screen with spinning wheel ). This problem was not there in the first place when I installed iDeneb v1.3 on the same laptop. It started to hang since 3-4 days. In these days I have tried a lot to get rid of this, 1. I re-installed the OS without reformat 2. I formatted the Hard disk and installed OS. 3. I formatted it with FAT file format and then formatted it with MAC OS Journaled 4. Tried to boot it with -v, -s, -F but no luck Safe mode lets me enter but not in normal mode. I am posting through safe mode. Can anyone help me with this kind of problem? PLZZZZZZ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179988-screen-hangs-at-apple-logo-grey-screen/#findComment-1240649 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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