Can u translate what -v is saying

[grc2nyc]

I had an s10 running 10.5.6 retail DVD dellfi method. Today it's stuck on the grey apple screen. I've been searching google, and trouble shooting since 8am. Other than actually knowing what the problem is I covered all the advice I could find so far beside 1: getting the hd erased at a shop 2: buying an external DVD drive. I've tried to do a re install but the dellminiboot formatted USB drive I initially used come up disk error, and the initial mac os x formatted USB drive now comes no os found. So is anyone savy with the os on a command line level, I need to know what to fix and booting -v is Chinese to me. If ur in NYC or bergan, passiac county Nj or the surrounding area I would bring a bottle of belevedere and a cheeseburger to your front door for a fix!
For a detailed run thru on what happened, my last post was indepth. I didn't want to drag this one out too, just need to find someone who understands this.

[grc2nyc]

@ my wits end. Resources are tapped, I've spent more $ on this than buying a MacBook. I can take my crx with and acura motor to any mechanic and they'll know how to fix it, a few have even congratulated me. Trying to get this lenovo s10 with mac os x problem solved is worse than pulling teeth.
I give up!!! So I've now the following pain the @$$ things for sale. Best offer:
White lenovo s10 2gb ram 320 hd, still with plastic screen on. Mint condition (except it being stuck on the apple screen)
4gb USB drive
16gb USB drive
Mac box set 10.5.6 with iLife 09 iWork 09
Neoprene case logic sleeve with front pocket and handle

[Aydinz]

bro why dont you post all your hardware specs motherboard and all and we will try to help you get this working :) just tell me your hardware and what versions of the distro you have or is it just the retail that you have?

oh and if you could would you post the messages you get through -v and i will try to help you work out whats wrong :)

[grc2nyc]

thanks, I'm losing my head over this... I probably sound like a crazy person on this end, but after awhile and a few forums & a ton of replies that've had me running n circles... I'm tired out.
Lenovo s10 2gb ram 320gb hd. Used 2usb drives, the dellminiboot with dellefi, a retail copy from mac box set 10.5.6 I had iLife and iWork 09 installed on it. My install had a few bumps but worked very well, sleep, sound, wifi, track pad, 75sec or less boot time. Ok my last use I installed and used candybar to change the finder icon to the finder with pirate patch. Rebooted and everything was smooth. After spending the week get 200 gb of photos and iTunes organized I was happy to say I was complete, it was 1am and I wanted to do timemachine backup so I had a perfect starting point. I didn't want to wait the hour until it finished and it wouldve done hourly backups all night. I scheduled a shut down for 3am. Next morning it wouldn't pass the grey apple screen. Biggest prob is now, it is my only computer... With it shut down I've no access to the net other than my iPhone.
What I've tried:
- bought an external DVD drive, tried to boot to get to disk utility. It mustve skipped the USB DVD drive and went to boot from the mac os x hd- stuck on grey apple screen.
-tried to use the dellminiboot etc again for a reinstall, it said no OS found
-I took the hd out tried to boot from the external DVD. It said something about pxe and to check wires
- Booted with -v gave a 2page list. How would I post it all or is there a particular I'm looking for

[LawlessPPC]

Please take a photo with the iphone and post what you get from -v (verbose mode), the last that it displays is the info we need.

Also have you tried booting with -v -f or even -v -f -s?

[grc2nyc]

Here are the pictures of booting with -v, -s
Http:/s660.photobucket.com/albums/uu321/Grc2nyc/?albumview=grid
As far as booted from the USB DVD drive, it doesn't seem to. After f12 I select it, before the timer ends I hit spacebar, it says to use ip & down arrows to select where I'd like to boot from but only offers my hard drive. The first install I couldve hit escape to choose 81,82. Also tried booted 9f, -x, -f, /sbin/fsck/ -fy

[nfoav8or]

what kind of output are you getting from a safe-mode boot (-x)? I didn't see any pictures depicting that so I'm curious... I see you have a lot of failed matching in your system (notably the graphics/display area)... but this shouldn't mess up your system with a safe-mode boot as it would bypass some of the hardware. I'll keep looking at the pics but I need to see the finished output for each of the different boot methods.

EDIT: also, when you take the pictures, can you attempt a landscape mode so I can see the whole line (or include multiple pictures so the whole line can be read. Thnx.

[grc2nyc]

I'm at microcenter using a mac to do dellmini boot. I've put it on USB tried to boot from it... I only get a blinking - top left corner. May it be a prob that I can't redo syslinx. I'm now going to add booting -x pics. Btw at the end it just stays at whatever screen I'm on, no options to type

[grc2nyc]

-x gets me to grey apple. I'll try -x -v

[grc2nyc]

Note: everything was perfect untill I used candybar, timemachine then scheduled a shut down for 1/2hr after timemachine wouldve finished. Other than I haven't a clue what I couldve done to get it this way. I've also tried a re install from the beginning, booting from my USB with dellminiboot only gives blinking dash, no option to escape and boot from hd or USB with mac DVD image.
I'm also willing to travel a 20 mile radius of zip code 07011 if anyone can check it in person. $50 is what I have left between a s10 running mac os x and having bought the white mb. If $50 more is what it takes I'll spend it...I've put a lot of pics, Feel free to email bbstockboy@yahoo for anything else

[nfoav8or]

Note: everything was perfect untill I used candybar, timemachine then scheduled a shut down for 1/2hr after timemachine wouldve finished. Other than I haven't a clue what I couldve done to get it this way. I've also tried a re install from the beginning, booting from my USB with dellminiboot only gives blinking dash, no option to escape and boot from hd or USB with mac DVD image.

The blinking dash in the upper left corner (after reinstalling to the same hard drive) usually means that the bootloader isn't marking the disk to allow it to be booted.

This is separate from your other problem which I think you could boot up using single user mode (-s) and then after the booting is done, enter the following code:
/sbin/mount -uw /
/sbin/fsck -fy
cd /Library/
mv Preferences/ Preferences.old/
reboot
This will cause your system to recreate the Preferences folder upon rebooting and should give you back the system (except that you'll need to redo some of your Preferences in the System Preferences)

[grc2nyc]

It doesn't allow me to enter text. After I boot - s it gets stuck at :/root# AppleintelCPUPowerManagement : intialization complete, I haven't waited more than 3minutes for it to continue, if it's supposed to take longer than that let me know. I'll send the pictures now (to the same photobucket link from before). It also has some option states above it. Which ends up stuck at kernel overflows available space. The hd had 120 or so gb last I used it.
I tried to put the code as is above. Exactly as typed, using the space bar to get to the next line... Kernel overflows available space,

[grc2nyc]

Could it be possible to put this hitachi hd into an enclosure and connect it via USB to a mac and run disk utility on it, an enclosure would be cheap... And I could just use a mac on display somewhere. A computer shop I call said they'd run a diagnostic on it for $70, even after mentioning it was a hackintosh he said bring it in. I'm thinking that maybe what they'd do for $70, which I could do for cost of enclosure.

[Dies]

Running disk utility on this hdd is unlikely to solve anything.

Do yourself a favor, grab the normal iso available at

http://partedmagic.com/

burn it to a cd then boot from it.

Now using the file manager ( or terminal ), mount the drive/partition containing your Leopard install and after making a backup/archive of your "Extensions" folder, delete AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext also delete any caches and .mkext, reboot and see what happens.
Do you get the same errors?

[grc2nyc]

Running disk utility on this hdd is unlikely to solve anything.

Do yourself a favor, grab the normal iso available at

http://partedmagic.com/

burn it to a cd then boot from it.

Now using the file manager ( or terminal ), mount the drive/partition containing your Leopard install and after making a backup/archive of your "Extensions" folder, delete AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext also delete any caches and .mkext, reboot and see what happens.
Do you get the same errors?
Would it be the same to put this on either a 4 or 16gb USB drive, I returned the superdrive I bought for the install.
-please note that this was to be my primary computer, itunes/iPhoto/pages & Internet use. My prehistoric hp pavillion ze4200 is all I have access to now, other than the few trips to the apple store to sneak disk utility/formatting & downloading the dellminiboot. This has basically screwed my intentions over... To have an inexpensive portable device for light work.

[Dies]

Would it be the same to put this on either a 4 or 16gb USB drive, I returned the superdrive I bought for the install.


Not sure what you mean?

If the question is whether you can run Parted Magic from a USB drive instead of a CD, then the answer is yes, as long as the machine you intend to use it on can boot from usb devices.

You can find a "usb" version in the downloads.

Though I've never used it so can't be of much help there, but their website or the download itself should have any info you might need.

[grc2nyc]

I'm trying to get around the legality of the hackintosh and taking it to a shop. My personal resources aren't sufficient enough it seems.
Can I:
-Install mac os onto this laptop's hd from it being in an external enclosure. then I run the dell efi on it as well, then simply install it back into the s10?
-do a reinstall from a completely wiped hd in the s10
I'm trying to know the ins and outs of this from a real perspective not just a I followed a how to, not knowing how it worked. I'm taking this failure quite personally, when one doesn't know why one failed... Upsetting.
As far as the dellminiboot not working... Why isn't it? It should be able to boot straight from the USB without a hd init & it doesnt. It would be as simple as put a blank hd in run dellminiboot, reinstall the mac DVD... Fixed right? I'm assuming a prob would be the 1st of running the syslinux download, can this be installed onto a blank hd without an os

[grc2nyc]

Thanks for all the input. I believe this fight is over, the brilliant tech guy... Came up with the plan of simple erasing the hd, calling lenovo for the install disks, reinstall from a USB cd rom drive. Lenovo doesn't give install disks for this, and I have now picked up my erased hd from the shop. Supposedly I could send it to lenovo and they'd install the os with the original hd in, but I bought this s10 with an hd upgrade, don't have the original.
- my only saving grace is to get the hd into an enclosure, get syslinux to run on it so the dellminiboot can let me re install the os

[grc2nyc]

os x is currently installing, 9 minutes left. I had to dig deep in the common sense bin to get syslinux on my dellminiboot USB. For the sake of anyone else whom may come across this prob
- the directions are to unzip syslinux-3.63 to c:
- then cmd prompt
- cd c:\syslinux-3.63\win32
-syslinux.exe -ma (ur USB letter)
None of that work properly for me so I
-so unzipped it to desk top
-dragged the file into the cmd prompt, enter
-dragged the next need file into cmd prompt and added to that Line -ma (USB letter)
For some reason my hp didn't find the file by ask with text but dragging them in did, weird, even typing them exactly as it wouldve appeared had I dragged them in it wouldn't work.
2 minutes left until I've osx running again, my next concern is should I use the last tinemachine back up I did which has all my stuff... Afraid of a re occurance of whatever just happened

[grc2nyc]

Took the hd out, erased it. Reinstalled 10.5.6, this install wasn't at smooth as the 1st, the beginning after the disk utility it actually gave an error that osx couldn't install, restart. When I did it came up as the mulit language welcome greeting. Everything but the battery meter is working, which didn't happen on the 1st install. Battery meter is alway at 0% or not charging, the time left is correct but the battery display is dead red