jonroy Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 I apologize if this has been covered before. I did do a search and found some previous references to this error, but nothing that solved the problem. So far, I have successfully downloaded and installed OS X on a separate (slave) IDE hard drive in my PC. After configuring to boot from that drive, OS X started to load and then hung at the grey Apple logo screen. I rebooted using the -v option and found that I was getting the "waiting for root" error, so I rebooted as single-user and modified the boot file to include the platform=X86PC option, which allowed a lot more stuff to run. However, without the -v option I am still hanging at the grey Apple logo screen and with the -v option it appears that the OS is hanging after reporting two or three errors stating "display: family specific matching failed" The computer is a Pentium 4 1.5 Ghz (an old Emachines T4150). The display adapter is an NVIDIA® TNT2 M64 AGP with 32MB of onboard RAM. When I get to the first screen during the boot process (where you can hit any button to get the boot: prompt), it does report that the graphics card is NVidia and that there are 32MB of VRAM present, so I am confused why this "display" error keeps coming up. Any tips? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58172-how-do-i-solve-a-display-family-specific-matching-fails-error/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Dont giveup on first try. Try to install only basic packages without graphics suport. You will be able to install and you ll fix vga later after installation. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58172-how-do-i-solve-a-display-family-specific-matching-fails-error/#findComment-415339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonroy Posted July 26, 2007 Author Share Posted July 26, 2007 Dont giveup on first try.Try to install only basic packages without graphics suport. You will be able to install and you ll fix vga later after installation. Sorry Oracle67...I'm not quite sure what you mean... How do I install only basic packages? The installation process I followed here: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/964/install..._drives_windows didn't allow me to choose any options when I did the install. Is there a way for me to remove the graphics support? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58172-how-do-i-solve-a-display-family-specific-matching-fails-error/#findComment-415354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Follow the steps at this picture: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58172-how-do-i-solve-a-display-family-specific-matching-fails-error/#findComment-415362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonroy Posted July 27, 2007 Author Share Posted July 27, 2007 Follow the steps at this picture: So are you saying that the only way to fix this error is to re-install from scratch? That's a bummer. I was hoping it was just a driver or something that I could load or download to get the system running.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58172-how-do-i-solve-a-display-family-specific-matching-fails-error/#findComment-415701 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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