Alexb01 Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 I am busy trying to install the Brazilmac SL DVD of leopard. I can't get past the grey logo at the begining of the installer. I have been waiting for a good 10-15 mins now, has anyone else found it take this long? Thanks, Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VacTacks11 Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 I am busy trying to install the Brazilmac SL DVD of leopard. I can't get past the grey logo at the begining of the installer. I have been waiting for a good 10-15 mins now, has anyone else found it take this long? Thanks, Alex I'm glad you brought that up. Mine took over an hour at the grey logo screen before I just decided to restart my computer. I decided to re-download the .iso, since I stopped/started it so many times yesterday. I'm also going to burn it at 2x just to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chief-j Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 I also had a problem with this, albeit a slightly different one. Tried booting with "-v" and "-s" and combinations thereof, only to see my system reboot right after it loaded all kexts into memory. Or at least it appears to happen at the end. I also tried booting into Vista and running Daemon Tools, and booting the disc up that way, but once it gets to that point, I get a "stack fault in kernel mode" error. I can't remember the exact wording as I'm at work now, but I was hoping someone could shed some light on this. TIA My system: ECS P4M800PRO-M 1.0A (2GB DDR2 PC4-4200 RAM) Pentium D 930 3.0 Ghz Nvidia GeForce FX5500 320 GB Western Digital SATA II HD Pioneer DVR-111D IDE DVD burner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexb01 Posted October 29, 2007 Author Share Posted October 29, 2007 If you have any luck I'd love to hear how. I've decided to download the full dual-layer version which I will burn when it eventually downloads and see if that is any better. Seeing as no one else seemed to have this problem I was wondering if its something to do with my Hardware here are a few specs, if your's are similar maybe we can put this down to some hardware: Motherboard: MSI-7046 Processor: Pentium 4 650 (3.4 GHz) Graphics card: ATI Radeon x700 pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
errandwolfe Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 While luckily I did not face this problem, it does not look like this is limited to just Hackintosh systems. According to this article many upgraders are getting delays several hours long on their first reboot. See article: http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl...ticleId=9044378 Apple Discussion Thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?t...=0&tstart=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecluley Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 i have the same problem! Just hangs on the grey apple screen and the circle loading icon just stops. Same thing happens in verbose mode just with text! its gets to something about cannot chck how many files are in com.apple.system. something. Is there any way i can get round this? anyone have any ideas? cheers! System: Asrock 775i65g Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1 GB DDR 400 Ram 160GB IDE HDD NEC DVDRW Drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanOMan Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 I had this problem for my Leopard install as well. My problem was fixed by using "-v -x" at the boot: command line. I don't know if I had the same issue or not. Mine would hang at the firewire device loading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexb01 Posted October 29, 2007 Author Share Posted October 29, 2007 I'm just trying using "-v -x".... Went smoothly for about 5 min then... It just stopped and threw up this this: "ERROR: FireWire unable to determine security-mode; defaulting to full-secure" Then after another minute it did something and now it keeps looping through some code the bulk of which is just lines saying: "SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE Failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x03, ASC = 0x11, ASCQ = 0x05" Edit: After googling the SAM multimedia errors, places suggest a problem with the disk so I will now burn again slowly at 2x speed and keep my fingers crossed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pet1 Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 I installed successfully. It's a little confusing as what to do next. I have downloaded the patched dvd. So do I run the postpatch sh? or the patch sh? Also, I set the drive to boot using fdisk and also bless it as well. I then get invalid hfs partition or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leodm Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 I installed successfully. It's a little confusing as what to do next. I have downloaded the patched dvd. So do I run the postpatch sh? or the patch sh? Also, I set the drive to boot using fdisk and also bless it as well. I then get invalid hfs partition or something. u need to run the postpatch script only, this can be done from another osx installation or a usb pen drive. if u still can't it work after postpatch/bless, maybe you should try to install Tiger first, then overwrite w/Leopard. check http://www.digitmemo.com/articles/658/howt...ot-setup-guide/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marliwahoo Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Indeed, it is slow to boot. Mine works but it does take about 15 min. to load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VacTacks11 Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 "SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE Failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x03, ASC = 0x11, ASCQ = 0x05" That's EXACTLY what was happening to me!! My HD light would be solid and my DVD-RW light would be flickering on/off while it brought up those error messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexb01 Posted October 29, 2007 Author Share Posted October 29, 2007 I've given up trying to fix the problem I am redownloading it along with downloading some other versions and when they eventually download I will try them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts