skyrocketing Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 I followed the All-In-One guide for beginners for setting up Mountain Lion. I followed all the instructions to a "t" and I'm fairly sure my USB drive is set up right. The only problem is that when I select the Mac OS X from Chameleon, I get stuck at the Apple logo. Note that this is when I'm trying to boot the installer for the first time, so I haven't actually installed Mac OS X yet. So I boot in verbose mode, and I see a bunch of text fly up the screen and then suddenly the screen goes black. My PC is still on at this point, just nothing on the screen. I'd like to see the error causing the hang at the Apple logo but I can't because the text doesn't stay on the screen. I've also tried the -x, -f flags but they didn't seem to do anything. Does anyone have any ideas? EDIT: I've decided to put a video up to be more clear about what's happening: http://youtu.be/BQDFxX6uzMI Specs: i5-4670k GA-Z87X-UD4H GTX 770 120 GB SSD 2 TB HDD 8 GB RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B5BAR Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 I followed the All-In-One guide for beginners for setting up Mountain Lion. I followed all the instructions to a "t" and I'm fairly sure my USB drive is set up right. The only problem is that when I select the Mac OS X from Chameleon, I get stuck at the Apple logo. Note that this is when I'm trying to boot the installer for the first time, so I haven't actually installed Mac OS X yet. So I boot in verbose mode, and I see a bunch of text fly up the screen and then suddenly the screen goes black. My PC is still on at this point, just nothing on the screen. I'd like to see the error causing the hang at the Apple logo but I can't because the text doesn't stay on the screen. I've also tried the -x, -f flags but they didn't seem to do anything. Does anyone have any ideas? EDIT: I've decided to put a video up to be more clear about what's happening: http://youtu.be/BQDFxX6uzMI Specs: i5-4670k GA-Z87X-UD4H GTX 770 120 GB SSD 2 TB HDD 8 GB RAM Greetings, It is quite possible your boot is being hung up by graphics, or other hardware issues that the Installer doesn't like Check out this install, as it is quite similar hardware to yours, and the Boot flags in this post worked for me as well. [sUCCESS] Vanilla ML 10.8.5 on GA-Z87X-UD4H & 4770k Haswell Boot flags -v -f dart=0 GraphicsEnabler=No EthernetBuiltIn=Yes RestartFix=No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyrocketing Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 Tried that, still nothing. Same situation as before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 try boot flag PciRoot=1 GraphicsEnabler=No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B5BAR Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 Tried that, still nothing. Same situation as before. Are you 100% sure you are trying the latest version of OS X? I was attempting to install on my haswell system, downloaded direct from my App store account, but Apple was still sending out 10.8.4, as opposed to the required 10.8.5 . I was stuck in the same spot as you. Have you attempted to use onboard graphics for the install portion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyrocketing Posted November 7, 2013 Author Share Posted November 7, 2013 I have successfully installed OS X using a different image, thanks anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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