a8mac Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Hi, ASUS A8SC laptop: T7300 CPU, PM965 chipset, ICH8-ME southbridge, 2Gb RAM, GeForce 8400M G. Bios version is 302 (latest). I've been trying to install a retail version of Leopard without success. Used a basic Boot 132 disc, able to swap discs and detect the Leopard Retail DVD, but it is stalling on the grey apple logo screen. When I tried to boot with '-v', the last statement I see is "dsmos: starting" - and it just sits there. Not sure what I need to do? Any help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/180539-help-stuck-at-dsmos-loading-grey-apple-screen/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
a8mac Posted August 19, 2009 Author Share Posted August 19, 2009 Still no luck, waited over an hour today to see if anything changed but it hadn't/ Not sure what is causing the error, although two questions. 1) I'm using one hard drive which has the following partitions. Do I need to make the OSX partition active before I install Leopard? 100mb - Windows 7 System Partition (NTFS, Primary, Active) 30gb - Windows 7 OS (NTFS, Primary, Active) 30gb - OSX, blank partition (NTFS, Primary) <- this is the one I will format and install Leopard on 70gb - Documents (NTFS, Logical) 2) Would my video card (128mb 8400M G) have anything to do with the freeze? Can anyone suggest boot options if it is? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/180539-help-stuck-at-dsmos-loading-grey-apple-screen/#findComment-1229775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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