dasepsilon Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 i have a (noname) gericom notebook with a pentium IV mobile sse2 and pae, and after some tweaking i have now a booting partition, but instead of a loginscreen (or postinstallationroutines) i simply have a bluescreen (at 1024x768, thats nice) and a mouse pointer (not a spinning rainbow-ball). thats it. what i did so far: 1. installed a fresh new macosx 10.4.6 jas on a native partition (with intel sse2 patch) 2. deleted applePS2controller.ext that was killing everything off 3. installed macvidia driver 1.0.8 by hand, since the notebook has a geforce fx5250 go, and crashes without extradrivers (i suppose it loads, else i wouldn't have that lovely blue screen, that is: it does recognize my lcd and its resolution, i can see that when booting with -v) so, i cannot figure out, why i get a blue screen with a mousepointer. i already tried hooking up my external lcd, but the only thing that happens is that i have a teared mousepointer (or better 6 of them) on the external, while the internal shows just only a bluescreen (dont understand how to disable to internal one, is that needed?) ah, i also tried -x just in case how can i somewhat see where it hangs? some kind of /var/log would be nice thanks for any hint!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34157-notebook-blue-screen-after-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 In Terminal, type: sudo dmesg To see logs, go to Utilities folder and open Console. Click on Logs in Toolbar. Click on system.log and console.log Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34157-notebook-blue-screen-after-install/#findComment-241870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasepsilon Posted November 25, 2006 Author Share Posted November 25, 2006 In Terminal, type: sudo dmesg To see logs, go to Utilities folder and open Console. Click on Logs in Toolbar. Click on system.log and console.log thanks, technical problem is: single mode is no problem, kextloading the nvidia drivers do not pose any problems either. but i cannot see/do anything as soon as the graphic card comes up (except moving a mousepointer over a blue screen). so how can i dmesg? (is there is an equivalent of alt+ctrl+F1?) i also tried paperclipmethod, no luck either titan and also natit didnt work (at all). damn, its just there, but i cant see it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34157-notebook-blue-screen-after-install/#findComment-241894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 Boot into single user mode (F8 then -s). At prompt, type: mount -uw / more /var/log/system.log (or: cat /var/log/system.log) (hit Space bar to page forward, Control-Z to quit) (and maybe: ) more /var/log/windowserver.log (or: cat /var/log/windowserver.log) cd /Library/Logs/Console/501 more console.log (or: cat console.log) more console.log.0 (or: cat console.log.0) more console.log.1 (or: cat console.log.1) Verify that there isn't another file you must edit like GeForce.kext or other like you must do for Titan/Natit. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34157-notebook-blue-screen-after-install/#findComment-241914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasepsilon Posted November 25, 2006 Author Share Posted November 25, 2006 __STUPID__ ME.. the installation i used, though it booted up very good, was broken (some self power-off of the notebook), a simple re-installation did the trick. except that pressing any key on my laptopkeyboard makes the computer crash.. hope those hacked ps2 kexts will do the trick.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34157-notebook-blue-screen-after-install/#findComment-242027 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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