xerid Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 I'm able to get OSX to boot, but only in safe mode. The "-x" option is required. If I try to boot without it, I get a message saying that I have to reboot. Also, sometimes the system will just hang (the spinning color wheel starts and I can't recover from it). I initially thought that it had something to do with hibirnation (I'm running on a T42), but it did when I was running the Text Editor. Any ideas? Will the latest v0.4 SSE3->SSE2 patch fix these? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/833-x-option-required-to-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotShot Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 What kind of video card do you have? If its ATi, then you can avoid having to safe boot by deleting all the ATi drivers from /System/Library/Extensions/. Just trash anything that says "ATi" or "Radeon" on it. As for the beach-ball of death, I don't know what to tell you. I happens to me sometimes to. Just hit reset and carry on, I suppose. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/833-x-option-required-to-boot/#findComment-5284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzy639 Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 I have the same problem. I have an nVIDIA 6600GT and it says I need to restart every 2 mins. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/833-x-option-required-to-boot/#findComment-5315 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xerid Posted August 22, 2005 Author Share Posted August 22, 2005 What kind of video card do you have? If its ATi, then you can avoid having to safe boot by deleting all the ATi drivers from /System/Library/Extensions/. Just trash anything that says "ATi" or "Radeon" on it. As for the beach-ball of death, I don't know what to tell you. I happens to me sometimes to. Just hit reset and carry on, I suppose. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What are the extensions for? Are they the actual drivers, or just extensions to the ATI drivers? I'm assuming that OSX would have improved performance if I could boot normally with this being loaded. I wonder if ATI have x86 patches/version for OSX. I have an ATI 9600 Mobility Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/833-x-option-required-to-boot/#findComment-5627 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotShot Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 At a basic level, you could say that: extensions are to OSX as drivers are to Windows Although you'll still see MacOS X "drivers" for download, they're usually extensions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/833-x-option-required-to-boot/#findComment-5631 Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidred Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 I'm able to get OSX to boot, but only in safe mode. The "-x" option is required. If I try to boot without it, I get a message saying that I have to reboot. Also, sometimes the system will just hang (the spinning color wheel starts and I can't recover from it). I initially thought that it had something to do with hibirnation (I'm running on a T42), but it did when I was running the Text Editor. Any ideas? Will the latest v0.4 SSE3->SSE2 patch fix these? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Remove the /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700GL.somethingsomething.bundle/ directory (make a backup of course). This should let you boot up OSX without needing the -x flag anymore. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/833-x-option-required-to-boot/#findComment-5686 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin R. Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 I'm having the same problem. When I boot normally, It loads the grey Apple screen and then it shows the cursor where the login screen is supposed to be. If I boot into safe boot, the computer works fine except the sound that worked once and stopped. I'm currently using a hp pavillion ze4900 (4908us to be specific..) Anyone know how to fix this? I'm not sure if its the video card. I have some crappy generic Intel card built into the laptop. If this is the case, is there any way you can boot with a generic video card driver like safe boot? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/833-x-option-required-to-boot/#findComment-5964 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neozeed Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Ive gone thru the same thing... if the screen tinge is kinda green/yellow its a bad driver screwing it up. In mine its an ATI so I pulled ATI* in the /System/Library/Extensions and its definatly happier. boot with the -v option to see if there is anything *interesting* when it ties to boot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/833-x-option-required-to-boot/#findComment-6874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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