powersauce Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 Hi there! I'll cut the chat and get right to it . Guide Used: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=11314) OS X Image: JaS.10.4.8.AMD.Intel.SSE2.SSE3 (patched with JaS.10.4.8.AMD.Intel.SSe2.SSe3.v1p and Defiant.diskutil.7) Hardware: Proc: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Motherboard: Asus P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP Video Card: EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX Sound Card: SoundBlaster Audigy 2 (I won't list the rest as it's probably not that important to this discussion) My problem is such: When I get to the grey screen with the spinner, the system hangs. The spinner spins and after a while a warning icon is displayed (don't know the specific name for the symbol -- it's a circle with a line through it). I cannot do anything else but restart. Any help would be greatly appreciated . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43375-stuck-at-grey-screen/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 When you boot up, hit F8 a few times right before the gray screen would otherwise show up. It should bring you to a Darwin boot prompt. Type "-v" without quotes and hit enter; the boot process will start in verbose mode. Tell us what it says when it hangs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43375-stuck-at-grey-screen/#findComment-310020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
powersauce Posted February 24, 2007 Author Share Posted February 24, 2007 Thanks for the tip. I did what you asked and I get output similar to this (wrote down whatever I could ): EHCI controller unable to take control from BIOS Apple USBEHCI[memory address here] Unable to obtain ownership Apple USBEHCI[memory address here] UIM Initialize - Error Occurred Apple USBEHCI[memory address here] Unable to Initialize UIM Then it hangs, with "still waiting for root device" repeating. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43375-stuck-at-grey-screen/#findComment-310039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
powersauce Posted February 24, 2007 Author Share Posted February 24, 2007 (edited) Hrm, fiddling around in my BIOS didn't help. Changing the USB function to legacy didn't accomplish anything, as some have suggested on this board. I'm a bit stuck here... don't know what to do right now. (sorry for the double post -- I could no longer edit my last post) Edited February 24, 2007 by powersauce Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43375-stuck-at-grey-screen/#findComment-310681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterblood Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Probably it's because your hard drive and DVD aren't on the same IDE channel. You should use the VMWare install or open your machine and connect HDD and DVD on the same IDE (one as master, other as slave). If you don't want to mess up with the hardware then VMWare is the way to go. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43375-stuck-at-grey-screen/#findComment-310707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
powersauce Posted February 25, 2007 Author Share Posted February 25, 2007 Ok, so I explicitly set Darwin to boot OS X from the partition it was installed to with "rd=disk01s1" and now I get a kernel panic. I get this right before the panic: nfs_boot_init failed with 6 I've read that the problem might be caused by using VMWare to install OS X and then booting natively. I can boot the hard drive from within VMWare, but not natively. Is there anything I could do to fix this from within OS X before I decide to reinstall completely? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43375-stuck-at-grey-screen/#findComment-311022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
apal07 Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Hi there, I had the exact same problem. I have 2 harddrives one with windows one with mac. First time after i formatted and installed mac os i got that problem and everytime i tried to boot into it. BTW both my drives are sata, formmated mac to mac format in installer. I unplugged my windows harddrive and booted directly into the mac, didnt work. Pluged windows HDD back in turned on pc booted directly into mac and worked. So that was my problem and solution was unplug windows. boot up, fail, plug windows back in and worked.... Then i installed ACRONIS OS SELECTOR and now everything works... much eaiser with an os selection program rather then the stupid unplugging. But you have an 8800 dont think it will work anyway Thats my problem now Hope that helped. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43375-stuck-at-grey-screen/#findComment-313072 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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