DavidLeite Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Hello. I'm kinda noob here. But I have some progress here. I installed Mac 10.4.8 from Jas on my pc (specs below), after a lot of sweat (sata recognition problems, partition problems), and now, when I boot, it freezes at the gray screen. The loading circle spins forever, and a slashed circle shows up within a minute. And it doesn't go anywhere at all. First thing I tried is to check the crash reporter. But I either don't know how to access the text mode, or I can't indeed. I'm using Acronis OS Selector. As soon as I select Mac OS, it quickly show darwin loading, and no matter what I press on the keyboard, it goes to the gray screen without giving me any other option. When I access the text mode booting from the DVD, crash reporter bugs me about "airport driver not found" and "optimization changed from time to space". But I don't think it could be stopping the system to boot up. I don't know what to do... How do I access the boot options ? Is there a possibility they are hidden or something? Would that even fix my problem ? thanks a lot everyone.... any help will be appreciated Processor: Pentium D 3.2Ghz Memory: 1 gb DDR HD: Seagate Barracuda SATA 250Gb Motherboard: P5RD1-VM Graphics: Geforce 7600 GT Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67490-freezes-at-gray-screen-i-cant-see-boot-options/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mMiniImManN Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Might try using the verbose mode, -v in the boot options (doesn't F8 or something bring that up?) Then report what happens after that, maybe somebody has a fix already worked through Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67490-freezes-at-gray-screen-i-cant-see-boot-options/#findComment-479781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidLeite Posted October 24, 2007 Author Share Posted October 24, 2007 when will F8 bring the boot options ? I select MAC OS and now it immediately goes to the gray screen... And if I hit any key repeatedly it'll make that noise from the case speaker of my computer... tee tee tee tee tee. Which seems that the keyboard is working. So, no, F8 doesn't bring boot options up... =/ ps: thanks for the reply!~=) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67490-freezes-at-gray-screen-i-cant-see-boot-options/#findComment-479819 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mMiniImManN Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 :\ well it's one of the F-keys, try hitting them all, and it should pop up with a promt for the options (and the computer beeps are normal) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67490-freezes-at-gray-screen-i-cant-see-boot-options/#findComment-479833 Share on other sites More sharing options...
toldor Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 well had the same problems...watch at osx86scene in post installation forum. there you find information which kexts u need to delete...try and error is best there. for me it helped very good. and it helps to understand osx much better. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67490-freezes-at-gray-screen-i-cant-see-boot-options/#findComment-479835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidLeite Posted October 24, 2007 Author Share Posted October 24, 2007 I hit all of them! Nothing will work though =/ It goes to the gray screen so fast that I can't even see the darwin black screen before, although I used to see it before for 3 seconds... it sounds like something really stupid as a timeout setting, but I can't come up with a solution! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67490-freezes-at-gray-screen-i-cant-see-boot-options/#findComment-480070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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