tuxcayc Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Hello: This is my first post, and i'd like to say that i've been reading the blog and the forum for several months and i really like this community, its very active, and i really understand the purpose of this, to discover and learn... well If i boot the kalyway 10.5.1 just pressing enter (or waiting some seconds) it take some minutes and gets to the gray apple logo with animation and reboots instantly. I read a possible solution for this was typing "cpus=1", it worked, but now i got stuck on that gray apple screen with that circle rotating animation under the apple logo. The same happens booting with vanilla... I installed 10.4.9 before, no problems. Any ideas? Thanks. tuxcayc, Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84585-got-stuck-on-gray-apple/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Well your doing something right.. You are using kalyways and you reasoned and tried CPUs-1. what you did wrong was not tell me your specs/setup so i can further assess the situation. Im sure i could think of an awesome analogy..and dont worry i will think of one, as to why not posting your specs is not helpful.. and i will probably put it in my sig. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84585-got-stuck-on-gray-apple/#findComment-600446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grifter Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Have you tried booting up in verbose mode? This might help give you an idea what's causing the problem. By the way, is this a fresh install? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84585-got-stuck-on-gray-apple/#findComment-600447 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Wait.. wait... here it is. "Telling us your problem and not telling us your specs is like only saying the first half of a story, leaving out the conclusion, readers just say 'and then'. " ... its a work in progress. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84585-got-stuck-on-gray-apple/#findComment-600452 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dullestbulb Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 I have somewhat of the same problem, this is my first time trying to install any kind of mac os on my system, and I have done nothing but burned the disc and run it. It will boot up until the grey apple logo where it just hangs with the circular animation below. As for my specs, Motherboard: ECS GeForce6100SM-M (1.0) Socket AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100S Micro ATX AMD CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ Brisbane 1.9GHz Socket AM2 HD (XP): Western Digital Caviar SE WD400JD 40GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 HD (Mac): Toshiba IDE 40GB (old laptop drive with adapter) Video: EVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Memory: CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM Sound: Creative Sound Blaster SB0570 Audigy SE 7.1 Channels PCI Interface WiFi: EDIMAX EW-7128G PCI By the way, I am currently running the Kalyway 10.5.1 iso Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84585-got-stuck-on-gray-apple/#findComment-601673 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuxcayc Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 Sorry, i posted this quickly before going to bed So, here are the most important things i copied from Everest Ultimate: CPU Mobile Intel Celeron M 420, 1600 MHz (12 x 133) Yonah-1M x86, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 1MB cache L2 MOTHERBOARD Uniwill X20IA DDR2 SDRAM Chipset Bus: Intel Direct Media Interface Main bus: Intel AGTL+ RAM 503 MB (8MB to video) CHIPSET North bridge: Mobile Intel Calistoga-GML i940GML/i943GML Graphic controller: Intel GMA 950 (8mb video buffer) South Bridge: Intel 82801GBM ICH7-M High definition audio: Audio controller: Intel ICH7 Codec name: Realtek ALC861 PCI-E port no. 1: @ x1 (Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller) BIOS BIOS type: AMI System BIOS date: 01/31/07 Video BIOS date: 03/20/06 *The BIOS is veeery limited. Very few options. Well, that's it, hope it helps. A little note: in Tiger i couldn't make the sound to work, the other things worked fine, just some issues of usb-replug with the wireless usb device. Thanks! tuxcayc. PS: I know it's a cheap and low quality notebook "for the masses". But i think its interesting dealing with this challenge. PS2: I tried verbose mode, and it just got stuck at the black/white screen with this message: EFI enhanced bootloader build: ToH Using SMBIOS table found at 0x000f8a20 Using ACPI RSDP revision 0 found at 0x000f8a20 Hey we are going backwards! -> , restarting timing Hey we are going backwards! -> , restarting timing calibation failed with 2 attempts Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84585-got-stuck-on-gray-apple/#findComment-601750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dullestbulb Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 I browsed the net for a few more hours and tried a few different ideas, all of which with no result. I tried using the -v, -s, -x, -f, cpus = 1 commands with very little effect. The most recent test involved the -s and cpus=1 command which shows the usual result of the disc stopping a few minutes into the installation and a ebios error popping up, "Ebios read Error: Device Timeout, Block 25880 Sectors 64". And I know of how long the installation should take and gave my computer well over a few hours to accomplish what it should have. Could my dvd or dvd drive be bad, or is this a problem with something on my computers end, bios, processor, w/e? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84585-got-stuck-on-gray-apple/#findComment-602812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dullestbulb Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Am I the only one watching this thread now? Anyways I tinkered around a few more hours with my bios and different commands and for some reason ill either get the ebios error stated above, or I will tinker around a little more with commands and get a "Disk2s2: device is write locked" error. Any ideas on how to fix this? I can only get to that part disk2s2 error when it asks if i would like to use "/sbin/fsck -fy" or "/sbin/mount -uw /" or if i want to continue boot by entering "exit", which does nothing. By the way when it asks if i want to use the "exit", "/sbin/fsck -fy", or "/sbin/mount -uw /" it will go to the next line for me to type with the command "-sh-3.2#" at the beginning of the line. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84585-got-stuck-on-gray-apple/#findComment-604082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dullestbulb Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 well this blows... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84585-got-stuck-on-gray-apple/#findComment-607698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewritten Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 Little late here, but did you try plugging in a Mouse and Keyboard to the PS/2 Port? I have no idea why but that fixed a similar problem for me Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84585-got-stuck-on-gray-apple/#findComment-739856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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