stephenx Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Hi everyone, I'm a bit of a lurker on this board and can usually answer all my questions by surfing the board for answers... but this one's got me a bit frazzled and I can't seem to find an answer on here. I've been able to properly install Kalyway and iATKOS on my Inspiron 9400 laptop AND get both of them to boot into Leopard, however the success of this bootup is limited and intermittent. On occasion, a very VERY rare occasion it will boot into Leopard and allow me to use the system. However, most of the time it will either hang at the gray apple logo and continue with the little dark gray pinwheel as if it were actually attempting to do something. This goes on for over a half hour with no end in sight. If I'm lucky enough for it to end it will... 90% of the time... simply restart the computer and get stuck in the same loop all over again. My drive/partition is active and flagged for boot as it obviously passes the darwin bootloader stage... however I can't seem to figure out why it gets stuck here and have no idea how to fix it :\. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81149-hang-or-crashrestart-at-gray-apple-logo-iatkos/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenx Posted January 12, 2008 Author Share Posted January 12, 2008 bump? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81149-hang-or-crashrestart-at-gray-apple-logo-iatkos/#findComment-575729 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kowyzg0moo Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Hi everyone, I'm a bit of a lurker on this board and can usually answer all my questions by surfing the board for answers... but this one's got me a bit frazzled and I can't seem to find an answer on here. I've been able to properly install Kalyway and iATKOS on my Inspiron 9400 laptop AND get both of them to boot into Leopard, however the success of this bootup is limited and intermittent. On occasion, a very VERY rare occasion it will boot into Leopard and allow me to use the system. However, most of the time it will either hang at the gray apple logo and continue with the little dark gray pinwheel as if it were actually attempting to do something. This goes on for over a half hour with no end in sight. If I'm lucky enough for it to end it will... 90% of the time... simply restart the computer and get stuck in the same loop all over again. My drive/partition is active and flagged for boot as it obviously passes the darwin bootloader stage... however I can't seem to figure out why it gets stuck here and have no idea how to fix it :\. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I suggest you reinstall using a freshly burned copy with iATKOS. When I had my Leopard bricekd due to bad drivers, I popped in the CD, reinstalled (I did not format the drive), it fixed kernal issues and reinstalled old kexts, and it was able to load up again. You might have to reset your account into Administrator, so you can do that by popping in the disc again, and clicking on "Reset Password" and then clicking on the "System Administrator" account and go from there. Hope that helps, it worked for me Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81149-hang-or-crashrestart-at-gray-apple-logo-iatkos/#findComment-595685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aktarerz Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Press f8 on boot. Then type: cpus=1 This should fix your problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81149-hang-or-crashrestart-at-gray-apple-logo-iatkos/#findComment-596366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
playmak3r5 Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 This fix worked for me: GO into your BIOS Settings Toggle Data Execution Prevention Enable/Disable Save and restart This worked like a charm! PM me for more help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81149-hang-or-crashrestart-at-gray-apple-logo-iatkos/#findComment-596565 Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrun Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 i tried the cpus=1 and that didn't work. i'm getting stuck on apple logo with ticking gear Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81149-hang-or-crashrestart-at-gray-apple-logo-iatkos/#findComment-899146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
squigglethecow Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 I had a similar issue with kalyway 10.5.2 for AMD, I fixed it by re-installing and changing the kexts, patches and such that installed. Eventually I got it to boot and work just fine (minus small adjustments). I also double checked my bios settings. Hope this helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81149-hang-or-crashrestart-at-gray-apple-logo-iatkos/#findComment-899244 Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrun Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 what did you change? im new to this and don't know what patches or kexts. what bios settings do i need to change? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81149-hang-or-crashrestart-at-gray-apple-logo-iatkos/#findComment-899268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
squigglethecow Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 what did you change? im new to this and don't know what patches or kexts. what bios settings do i need to change? The settings I changed were: ACPI APIC support enabled ACPI suspend mode [s3] or [s2] Configure SATA to AHCI With the SATA to AHCI change, you need to adjust vista to support ATA (if you are dual booting) As far as the settings I changed during install, I had to select legacy flag (since I have an AMD processor) and I de-selected the v anilla kernel. But thats different per whatever rig you are using. For more info you can see the thread on the issues I was having here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry897527 hope it helps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81149-hang-or-crashrestart-at-gray-apple-logo-iatkos/#findComment-899379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastguy397 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Press f8 on boot. Then type: cpus=1 This should fix your problem. I'm having the same problem, and my presario crashed instead of taking forever to boot Presario V2000 Intel Centrino 1.73 GHz SSE3 740MB PC2700 RAM 60GB Fujitsu HDD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81149-hang-or-crashrestart-at-gray-apple-logo-iatkos/#findComment-1195558 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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