kolonija Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 Okay, i downloaded a copy of Mac OS X Kalyway 10.5.2 and i used Alcohol 120 to burn it. I had and i still have installed Windows XP SP3 Pro. I installed a program called acronis OS selector to choose what to boot. Now .. I've got 3 discs (one IDE - 160, two SATA - one 160, second 500). I first tried installing Mac on a 160 gb IDE disc. I formatted it and created a new partition, then I installed Mac. It went OK, but when it rebooted, a silver screen with an apple showed up. It did not go past the screen. I also tried installing kalyway mac on a sata drive, didn't go past the screen either, neither did when i tried to format both discs' partitions with Mac utilities. I'm pissed off about this! I just cant get it to work! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109482-it-wont-go-past-apple-logo/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whalid Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 First of all: you are not giving enough information here. The only thing you are saying is 'doest work'. Second, if you search the board you will find a lot of information already posted that could help you. Dont complain that no one is trying to help you if you can bother to look at the information already posted. Dont download a lot of distros and try them all. It probably wont work. Well, after this little token of forum etiquette: try to see WHY the boot is not happening (try to boot in single user (-s at the darwin prompt) Then boot with -x -v and look at if something is going wrong with your files). Post your computer specs so anyone can give you a more specific tip. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109482-it-wont-go-past-apple-logo/#findComment-780730 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kolonija Posted June 18, 2008 Author Share Posted June 18, 2008 ok, so now i installed it again (5th time) and i tried typing -v and it didnt go past this screen. when i dont boot with -v this screen appears: (as you can see it says MAC framework successfully initialized) nothing else appears. i waited for about 20 minutes and nothing i also tried typing -s, i get the exact same picture as when i type -v and when i type -x -v some text scrolls fast and then i get the screen like i did when i typed -v. EDIT: OK, now im getting somewhere. If i boot with cpus=1 i get the screen like i dont type anything, except that now i get a working circle under the apple logo (i dont get the non-smoking sign without the cigarette). but it doesnt boot into the presentation or anything. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109482-it-wont-go-past-apple-logo/#findComment-788107 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Type the last line:" using 16 buffer headers insanelymac" on the search page in google! This is a known error and there are many resolves for it! like: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=76435 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109482-it-wont-go-past-apple-logo/#findComment-788127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kolonija Posted June 18, 2008 Author Share Posted June 18, 2008 oh yeah, my machine: Core 2 Quad 9300 (both sse2 and sse3) Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT 2GB RAM SLI DDR2 Motherboard Foxconn intel P35 SERIES Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109482-it-wont-go-past-apple-logo/#findComment-788144 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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