Arthur Pwnzerelli Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Hi I just installed leopard iAtkos release 1.5.7 which i think is the newest. The installation went fine but when i restart it goes to that grey apple startup screen and does nothing both keybaord and mouse don't work at this point. I tried going to utilities and installing chameleon and the only difference is now theres this cartoon lizard loading screen where it gives me the option to choose which disk i want to boot then it goes to a somewhat different apple startup screen where it freezes again. I have a pentium 4 2.5ghz with 1gig of ram and my motherboard is an msi 845E max (or MS-6566E as it says in dxdiag). Can anyone please help me out I want this to work so badly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174974-leopard-freezes-at-grey-apple-startup-screen-msi-845e-max-motherboard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
TylerPower Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 When at the Chameleon loader screen, push down, the select Boot Verbose - It'll show you far more detail of the loading process. Once it hangs and doesn't go any further, take a photo or write down what the last few lines are. Then post them in to this thread Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174974-leopard-freezes-at-grey-apple-startup-screen-msi-845e-max-motherboard/#findComment-1200559 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Pwnzerelli Posted July 15, 2009 Author Share Posted July 15, 2009 When at the Chameleon loader screen, push down, the select Boot Verbose - It'll show you far more detail of the loading process. Once it hangs and doesn't go any further, take a photo or write down what the last few lines are. Then post them in to this thread I dont see this option it just says push a button for boot settings and it shows me a pic of my mac os drive and my windows and lets me click which one i want to boot. When i click the mac os it goes to the grey screen and just freezes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174974-leopard-freezes-at-grey-apple-startup-screen-msi-845e-max-motherboard/#findComment-1200572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TylerPower Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 I dont see this option it just says push a button for boot settings and it shows me a pic of my mac os drive and my windows and lets me click which one i want to boot. When i click the mac os it goes to the grey screen and just freezes. Highlight the Mac OS drive with your keyboard then push the down arrow and the option should be revealed - That is if you're using Chameleon RC2. If not, then you need to figure out how to use boot arguments with your boot loader, what you need to do is boot off the Mac OS drive but use "-v" (Without the quotes). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174974-leopard-freezes-at-grey-apple-startup-screen-msi-845e-max-motherboard/#findComment-1200574 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Pwnzerelli Posted July 15, 2009 Author Share Posted July 15, 2009 Highlight the Mac OS drive with your keyboard then push the down arrow and the option should be revealed - That is if you're using Chameleon RC2. If not, then you need to figure out how to use boot arguments with your boot loader, what you need to do is boot off the Mac OS drive but use "-v" (Without the quotes). Ok I did the boot verbose option and a bunch of text scrolled by really fast until the screen went totally black and now is just frozen there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174974-leopard-freezes-at-grey-apple-startup-screen-msi-845e-max-motherboard/#findComment-1200591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Pwnzerelli Posted July 15, 2009 Author Share Posted July 15, 2009 Could I get some help please. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174974-leopard-freezes-at-grey-apple-startup-screen-msi-845e-max-motherboard/#findComment-1201080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahilton2002 Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 sorry i cant help but i have to same prob. it boots to the grey apple screen and hangs, if i -v the i get all the text on screen and its loads the kext, the just going black..... too fast to read. i've tried two distros both install fine... but fall flat on its arse when it tries to boot. i've also tried different graphics cards and hard drives... i'm stumped. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174974-leopard-freezes-at-grey-apple-startup-screen-msi-845e-max-motherboard/#findComment-1201162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Pwnzerelli Posted July 15, 2009 Author Share Posted July 15, 2009 sorry i cant help but i have to same prob. it boots to the grey apple screen and hangs, if i -v the i get all the text on screen and its loads the kext, the just going black..... too fast to read. i've tried two distros both install fine... but fall flat on its arse when it tries to boot. i've also tried different graphics cards and hard drives... i'm stumped. yea i've tried 3 distros and have that exact same black screen issue when i push -v, someone told me it might be vga issue in customization so ima try that if i can figure it out. Oh yea quick question are you on a pentium four? and what type of motherboard do you have? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174974-leopard-freezes-at-grey-apple-startup-screen-msi-845e-max-motherboard/#findComment-1201177 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahilton2002 Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 yea i've tried 3 distros and have that exact same black screen issue when i push -v, someone told me it might be vga issue in customization so ima try that if i can figure it out. Oh yea quick question are you on a pentium four? and what type of motherboard do you have? p4 3ghz my pc is a packard bell 5009 (worked with kalway) heres a link to my board my board Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174974-leopard-freezes-at-grey-apple-startup-screen-msi-845e-max-motherboard/#findComment-1201195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Pwnzerelli Posted July 15, 2009 Author Share Posted July 15, 2009 p4 3ghz my pc is a packard bell 5009 (worked with kalway) heres a link to my board my board Oh so you actually got the kalway version to work for you, I've only been trying iATKOS versions and none booted. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174974-leopard-freezes-at-grey-apple-startup-screen-msi-845e-max-motherboard/#findComment-1201200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahilton2002 Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Oh so you actually got the kalway version to work for you, I've only been trying iATKOS versions and none booted. yeah its an old one but i want to 10.5.7 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174974-leopard-freezes-at-grey-apple-startup-screen-msi-845e-max-motherboard/#findComment-1201201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Pwnzerelli Posted July 15, 2009 Author Share Posted July 15, 2009 yeah its an old one but i want to 10.5.7 couldn't you just use the normal mac update from your old osx? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174974-leopard-freezes-at-grey-apple-startup-screen-msi-845e-max-motherboard/#findComment-1201212 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahilton2002 Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 couldn't you just use the normal mac update from your old osx? it dies Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174974-leopard-freezes-at-grey-apple-startup-screen-msi-845e-max-motherboard/#findComment-1201232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Pwnzerelli Posted July 15, 2009 Author Share Posted July 15, 2009 it dies Could u give me the name of the one you got to work i wanna just try that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174974-leopard-freezes-at-grey-apple-startup-screen-msi-845e-max-motherboard/#findComment-1201239 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Pwnzerelli Posted July 16, 2009 Author Share Posted July 16, 2009 please help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/174974-leopard-freezes-at-grey-apple-startup-screen-msi-845e-max-motherboard/#findComment-1202234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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