joako Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 I am attempting to install on Dell Inspirion 11z (1110) noteboot. I have used the NetBook installer on a PPC mac and followed all the instructions. I am able tog et the Dell to boot from the USB hard drive. Without doing anything it kernel panics due to AppleHDA.kext. I can boot with safe mode and it goes past the Apple logo and I get to the grey desktop with a mouse cursor, but nothing ever happens. I tried all the possible options... cpus=1 also seems to make it get to the grey screen. And last I put the install hdd back in a mac and deleted AppleHDA.kext and it now can boot the install to the same point without any interaction. Sometimes the mouse cursor will turn into a spinning beachball. What should I do in this case? I am trying to install into a notebook without an optical drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/199815-cannot-get-past-grey-screen/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
stream43 Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 I am attempting to install on Dell Inspirion 11z (1110) noteboot. I have used the NetBook installer on a PPC mac and followed all the instructions. I am able tog et the Dell to boot from the USB hard drive. Without doing anything it kernel panics due to AppleHDA.kext. I can boot with safe mode and it goes past the Apple logo and I get to the grey desktop with a mouse cursor, but nothing ever happens. I tried all the possible options... cpus=1 also seems to make it get to the grey screen. And last I put the install hdd back in a mac and deleted AppleHDA.kext and it now can boot the install to the same point without any interaction. Sometimes the mouse cursor will turn into a spinning beachball. What should I do in this case? I am trying to install into a notebook without an optical drive. first of all start in verbose mode -v and post the last couple of messages on screen Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/199815-cannot-get-past-grey-screen/#findComment-1344469 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joako Posted November 28, 2009 Author Share Posted November 28, 2009 first of all start in verbose mode -v and post the last couple of messages on screen Following all the instructions for netbook install exactly, it would kernel panic. I then started in verbose mode and it showed it was panicking on AppleHDA.kext so I tried the safe mode and it would get past all that and load a grey screen with the mouse cursor and that is where I get stuck now with each way I try to boot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/199815-cannot-get-past-grey-screen/#findComment-1344501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
searockcliff Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Try external display Following all the instructions for netbook install exactly, it would kernel panic. I then started in verbose mode and it showed it was panicking on AppleHDA.kext so I tried the safe mode and it would get past all that and load a grey screen with the mouse cursor and that is where I get stuck now with each way I try to boot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/199815-cannot-get-past-grey-screen/#findComment-1345358 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joako Posted January 3, 2010 Author Share Posted January 3, 2010 Try external display The issue is the keyboard and mouse! The ones in the laptop do not work. When I connected an external keyboard and mouse everything is well. In other machines I seen this during the install the keyboard and mouse need to be replugged for them to work but after that it is fine. Now I can boot MacOS but still the internal keyboard and mouse do not work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/199815-cannot-get-past-grey-screen/#findComment-1375283 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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