crobo Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyper Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 This means Mac is booting. Correct me if im wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerTea Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Boot up with verbose mode (-v), to see the error messages. Then post them here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyper Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Can you post your pc specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVegas Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 I also get the same stuck screen during booting and I get nearly the same screen when i boot in verbose mode except it detects my video card as an 8600gts. I thought i read somewhere that if you delete nvinject.kext then the system would boot. I'm a total noob at this so i'm not sure how to go about this. Can someone post instructions/terminal commands on how to delete or disable nvinject.kext. By the way my system specs: Gigabyte P35-DS3P motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 OC to 3.2ghz EVGA Geforce 8600gts 256mb 4gb ram 320gb hard drive (30gb for Leopard partition) Thanks for your help, I'm eagerly awaiting a reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzzfgo Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Try typing cpus=1 when your pc boots. If that fixes your prob then its a setting in your bios you should be able to fix. Search the boards here for it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wigworm Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 When exactly do i have to type: cpus=1 (the same screen where i can type -v and ?)?? Your Video card driver (or lack of a proper one) is the cause of the problem. When you install, do not select any driver and you have a better chance of boot up. Once you boot up the leopard, look for 8600 GT driver on this forum. There are quite a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilzbery pilzberowicz Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 if you have onboard lan try disabling it. it worked for me. i couldn't boot with my lan working, had to disable it in bios. then after successful boot i aplied patch for the realtek and it started to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wigworm Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Anyway, typical problem of choosing Natit and Nvinject during installation. I've warned people not to choose any driver or patch during installation in my guide. Nobody reads my guide anyways. Pity... I also get the same stuck screen during booting and I get nearly the same screen when i boot in verbose mode except it detects my video card as an 8600gts. I thought i read somewhere that if you delete nvinject.kext then the system would boot. I'm a total noob at this so i'm not sure how to go about this. Can someone post instructions/terminal commands on how to delete or disable nvinject.kext. By the way my system specs:Gigabyte P35-DS3P motherboardIntel Core 2 Duo E6420 OC to 3.2ghzEVGA Geforce 8600gts 256mb4gb ram320gb hard drive (30gb for Leopard partition)Thanks for your help, I'm eagerly awaiting a reply. Boot up your installation DVD, under utility, disk utility, click on the disk which you installed your Leopard on and click on info, and write down the path (something like /volume/Mac/.... yours will be different obviously). Close disk utility, under utility, click on terminal. In terminal, type this: cd "the path your wrote down" (of course without the quote sign) cd system/library/extensions rm -r nvinject.kext rm -r natit.kext (I would delete this one too as it often cause problem at boot) exit reboot. Now the theory behind deleting these two file is: first, you need either one but never both. second, you need to add your device id before install these kext file. If you just install them from installation dvd, most likely it won't have your device id on them and therefore you won't be able to boot into GUI mode (desktop). -v at boot will give you verbose and seeing the verbose, it just tell you that you successfully boot to loginwindow. So that tells you that your Leopard actually booted up but graphic can't display the desktop therefore you are staring at a grey apple. Hope this make sense to those who are stuck at grey apple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVegas Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Thanks everyone for your help. I reinstalled but this time did not include drivers or anything extra and it booted into Leopard no problem! However, my Netgear WG311 v3 wireless card is not working so I dont have internet access. Unfortunately, it looks like only earlier versions that had the Broadcom chip work with some tweaking. My card has the Maravell chip and after searching the forums I didnt find any way of making it work. Do anyone have any further suggestions to get my WG311 v3 wireless card working or if not, can you recommend a cheap PCI wireless card that would work out of the box? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 no succes boys The grafic drivers for your 8600 are the problem delete the NVinject.kext ( i did it with transmac from windows) and try booting again ( may take some time) you should get into OSX with 1024 x 768 screen. once in OSX You need the 10.5.2 NVidia kext package, then everything will be fine, at least for me it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Thats true westwaerts, i re-installed it w ithout any drivers. only one problem. My graphic card is blown up right now hahahhaha What do you think guys, is it just a fabrication fault or does it have something to do with the leopard os x Asus Geforce 8600 GT silent (heatsink {censored} hot, never going to buy it again) Will get a new one about a week Working on laptop right now sorry to hear that, but for me it worked, and the card is still alive. and there is no need for reinstalling, just delete the nvinject.kext, maybe some other drivers are missing now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WannaBeApple Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Please!!!!!!! Can some one tell me how i remove the AppleIntelCPUPowermanagement.kext with the terminal??? pls PM!!! Thanks!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ongeloof Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 i had this problem, i removed the GPU, and used onboard graphics and it worked fine. Think Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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