Babazoz Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Hi all. This is my first post, and it's a little side thing for me, this whole installing OSX on a PC, but I have a spare laptop to do this on, so here goes. I have a Dell Inspiron 5100, 2.4 Ghz P4, 512 MB of Ram, and an ATI Radeon M7 64 MB with a 60GB HD. I am wanting to do a native install of OSX86 jas 10.4.8 on it. I have successfully done this, but when it loads up, I get the grey screen with the Apple and the little wheel indicator thing, and then the screen completely corrupts. I thought it was a video driver issue, but even when I did "Graphics Mode"="800x600x16" at the bootprompt, it still did it. I'm not sure what's going wrong. I've tried different install configs, removing options and all that. No avail. I'm going to try installing without X11 support next to see if that has any effect, but I wanted to come here first, as you guys seem to be Johnny-on-the-spot when it comes to solving these kinds of problems. Has anyone had similar problems, and if so, is there a way around this? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42007-help-with-osx-1048-after-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadiekiller Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 sounds like a graphic problem, x11 would have nothing to do with it. try different resolutions at boot. i've had it do that to me a few times and i just had to try a bunch of resolutions untill i found one that worked, or was very close to working so i coudl still see what i was doing and then changed it in the os to a supported one. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42007-help-with-osx-1048-after-install/#findComment-300338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babazoz Posted February 12, 2007 Author Share Posted February 12, 2007 sounds like a graphic problem, x11 would have nothing to do with it. try different resolutions at boot. i've had it do that to me a few times and i just had to try a bunch of resolutions untill i found one that worked, or was very close to working so i coudl still see what i was doing and then changed it in the os to a supported one. Actually, I decided to leave X11 out of it, and boom, now it's working. Sound, video, dvd drive, everything. Now I just have to figure out how to get my network running, and I'm set. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42007-help-with-osx-1048-after-install/#findComment-300369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadiekiller Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 huh, i wouldn't think x11 would do anything. but whatever. good luck with the network problems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42007-help-with-osx-1048-after-install/#findComment-300387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babazoz Posted February 12, 2007 Author Share Posted February 12, 2007 huh, i wouldn't think x11 would do anything. but whatever. good luck with the network problems. Just got that running too. I'm using it to reply to this thread. So far, it's pretty neat, no real problems, except for VLC crashing on me. I'm going to tackle that and my Wireless next. Quite the learning experience. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42007-help-with-osx-1048-after-install/#findComment-300446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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