seanz0rzftw Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 well first i guess i should tell you my computer specifications. HP Pavilion Elite 400z Foxconn H-RS780-uATX Motherboard AMD Phenom II x4 Hitachi 1TB hard drive ATI Radeon HD 5450 6 gigs of RAM DDR3-1333 i am using SnowLeo, and after installation it asks to restart computer, and then nothing happens. my computer restarts and i just get a black screen with a flashing cursor. ive tried several different kext configurations, i have AHCI enabled in the BIOS settings. any ideas? bump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 boot with -v, that's my idea so we can troubleshoot it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanz0rzftw Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 thats the problem, i cant even get to the Chameleon bootloader. it goes straight to a black screen with a horizontal flashing cursor. i cant type anything. its almost like the bootloader isnt even getting installed. but ive definitely selected it during installation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris512 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Sounds like you haven't set your osx partition as active... Boot back into your install disk and type "diskutil list" into terminal. There's loads of guides on here that tell you what to do next. Let us know how it goes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanz0rzftw Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 ok im going to wipe the hard drive and try a fresh install, because from where im at right now, it wont even boot into the dvd anymore. if i attempt to boot the dvd after the installation has happened, i get sent to the black screen. ill use the diskutil list command to make sure the partition set as active, and ill post a list of which kexts are selected and ill let guys know what happens. thanks for the help so far. ok i have yet to install but i made the partition and then i ran the diskutil list command and this is what i have. /dev/disk0 0. Fdisk_partition_scheme *931 gb disk0 1. Macintosh HD 931 gb disk0s1 i used the fdisk command to the check the partitions. its definitely set as active. ok so SOME success. haha. it installed, and i make it to the chameleon boot screen now, but instead of waiting there for me to select the partition and then optionally enter boot commands, it goes straight to the apple boot logo and then shuts down automatically. it doesnt even stay on the chameleon bootloader long enough for me to enter -v. any ideas guys? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 F8 (more research) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanz0rzftw Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 im confused. what do you mean by F8? if youre asking me to hit F8 at the chameleon boot screen, i would, but like i said, it doesnt give me time to do anything at all. it literally goes straight from turn on to chameleon and then IMMEDIATELY to the apple logo and then shuts down. no time to hit anything at all. aha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 because you probably chose quiet boot, that's why you need to press F8 to get to chameleon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 you dont hit F8 @ the chameleon boot screen, you hit it BEFORE to get the CHAMELEON bootscreen out (if you chose quietboot during installation). so, what's so confusing about that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanz0rzftw Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 ok i see what youre saying. i didnt specifically choose the quiet boot option, as far as i can see it doesnt even exist on this specific distro, but i will try that. maybe its installed automatically, and i was unaware of it. thank you ill let you know if that works. just out of curiousity, how would i go about NOT selecting quiet boot? ok well i was able to do a -v. right before it dies the last line is something like cannot find/load ioarchitecturefamily.kext. with busratio=16 turned on, it gives a line of text and then it says CPU Halted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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