craigly Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Installed OSX 10.4.6 on a 32bit Dell Studio running VMWare Server 2.0.2. After installing get an error. At end of install you are asked to reboot. But all I can get after reboot is: Grey screen with power button in center saying "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several second or press the restart button" Picture attached. No matter how many times VM is restarted, same error. Help! Craig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
platinumsteel Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Yeh well that's because something has gone all wrong and it's not allowing u to boot up...could be a boot disc dat's not compatible with your operating system...I got that error many times before when i was now learning to install mac osx..but i think u should try to get your hands on version 10.6.3 at least to start..it's better supported... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankJPartida Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Installed OSX 10.4.6 on a 32bit Dell Studio running VMWare Server 2.0.2. After installing get an error. At end of install you are asked to reboot. But all I can get after reboot is: Grey screen with power button in center saying "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several second or press the restart button" Picture attached. No matter how many times VM is restarted, same error. Help! Craig I had the same problem but upon boot type "cpus=1" and you'll boot into the os! but! you must add this to your boot file located in <drive name>/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist should look like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>cpus=1</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>5</string> </dict> </plist> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigly Posted September 23, 2011 Author Share Posted September 23, 2011 Thanks all. Going to try this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1622074 And will report back. Thanks! Craig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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