Vors Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 Hi, I've been unable to get as far as booting past the grey apple screen when booting from JaS 10.4.7 or 10.4.6 patched DVD's. The circular thing just stops spinning shortly before the DVD stops getting read. I think it's having problem bringing up the GUI. I've managed to get it installed on VMware ok (using JaS 10.4.7), but it's really slow. I purposefully installed it directly to an unpartition drive so I could try booting my real PC from it. Doing this, it gets as far as "Login Window Application Started". Again it looks like the GUI just isn't being displayed, 'cos if I press the power button, it actually goes into hibernation mode. Pressing it again brings it out of hibernation, but with no signal coming from the video card. Here's my system spec: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (SSE2) Asus K8N4-E nforce4 socket 764 Nvidia Geforce 7800 GT OC Anyone got any ideas of how to get this to boot natively (I can modify the config by loading OSX86 through VMware) or is it just not compatible with my video card? Thanks Vors Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30226-unable-to-native-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vors Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 I don't know whether this is what is causing the problem, but i've just noticed that i'm getting an error during boot up: "link/load error occurred for kernel extension /System/Library/Extension/Geforce.kext". I read in another post somewhere that removing these erroring files would solve the problem, but it doesn't make any difference apart from removing the error... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30226-unable-to-native-boot/#findComment-209671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 are you using a SATA drive or an IDE drive? currently nforce4 sata sucks/nonexistant....try installing on an ide drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30226-unable-to-native-boot/#findComment-210008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vors Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 are you using a SATA drive or an IDE drive? currently nforce4 sata sucks/nonexistant....try installing on an ide drive. It's installed on an IDE drive, but I do have SATA drives in the system. As I say, it seems to load the OS fine but without actually bringing up the display. I can press buttons and things happen (hdd activity), I just can't see it..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30226-unable-to-native-boot/#findComment-210453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 It's installed on an IDE drive, but I do have SATA drives in the system. As I say, it seems to load the OS fine but without actually bringing up the display. I can press buttons and things happen (hdd activity), I just can't see it..... Do you have another video card you can try to see if booting is successful? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30226-unable-to-native-boot/#findComment-210537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vors Posted October 17, 2006 Author Share Posted October 17, 2006 Do you have another video card you can try to see if booting is successful? Uh, no. Reckon I should try installing the macvidia drivers? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30226-unable-to-native-boot/#findComment-211319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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