r00ter Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Everything was going very well on my wicked 10.5.1 system, and I decided to upgrade to 10.5.2 with Kalyway's update. I thought hell, I used his disk, why not his update. All went well. I went to reboot my system, and then the first time - It loaded the gray apple screen and then my monitor lost signal. Definitely a graphics problem, so I said okay, and changed stuff so it used my onboard video. Success! Not really. It now loads to a blank blue screen. My USB devices active, keyboard functioning - but nothing loads. It's been sitting here for 20 minutes now at that screen. Why did this have to happen to me? Can you guys help me devise a solution to fix this? Booted up normal, but oddly it ended with mResponder doing a DNS thing and I don't remember seeing a LoginWindow Starting... but okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laddie Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Everything was going very well on my wicked 10.5.1 system, and I decided to upgrade to 10.5.2 with Kalyway's update. I thought hell, I used his disk, why not his update. All went well. I went to reboot my system, and then the first time - It loaded the gray apple screen and then my monitor lost signal. Definitely a graphics problem, so I said okay, and changed stuff so it used my onboard video. Success! Not really. It now loads to a blank blue screen. My USB devices active, keyboard functioning - but nothing loads. It's been sitting here for 20 minutes now at that screen. Why did this have to happen to me? Can you guys help me devise a solution to fix this? Booted up normal, but oddly it ended with mResponder doing a DNS thing and I don't remember seeing a LoginWindow Starting... but okay. Sorta the same thing here, I installed the Kalyway 10.5.2 combo update, It worked and everything was fine till I accepted the video driver update from Apple. Now all I get is a blank blue screen as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burninator04 Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 I did the same thing rooter. Mine booted if I left it alone for about 5 minutes. when I finally got it to boot, I had to do the kernel update from Kaly. That fixed the boot problem, but I had sleep issues after that. I'd recommend just going with a reinstall if you can afford it. I tried the 10.5.2 update 3 times before I finally realized that I would be alot better off just staying with 10.5.1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r00ter Posted February 24, 2008 Author Share Posted February 24, 2008 Hey, I totally forgot about this thread. I reinstalled right after I posted it. Now, I have all my apps and games on a data partition so I can reinstall effortlessly. I did the same as you, bricked my install twice, and now I'm on 10.5.1 forever Or until it gets fixed that is! Also, I read that the blank blue screen is typically caused by an AppleSMBIOS.kext problem. I've already tried replacing the SMBIOS.kext to no avail, and it still didn't work - hopefully someone can shed some light on THAT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny_Bravo Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 hey guys, i have the same problem. I´ve installed the kalyway update, but now, i cant boot, i´m stuck at the grey screen with the apple logo and that rotating circle. how can i boot back in OS X? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlayingKarrde Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Johnny, boot with -v so that you can track down what the problem is exactly. I personally installed Kalys update and that went fine. I then installed the kernels and I thought it all went fine. Then it crashed at sleep and I couldn't boot back into OSX at all (just kept rebooting at darwin). Full reset. 10.5.1 for me. Or until I get LAN/internet working so I can update via Apple's updater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilem Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 If you installed the Graphics Update then you may have to reconfigure the kexts for your video cards. I did the graphics update after the 10.5.2 update and it would panic. I removed my NVinject file and it would boot but at 1024x768. I added my device id back into the files and moved the NVinject file back over and everything worked again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrone Shoe Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 I started with Kalyway 10.5.1 but I used Netkas' upgrade method. It worked flawlessly for me. It sounds like the Kalyway 10.5.2 updater is more trouble than it's worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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