[Solved] Black screen after boot process

[danielmole]

Hello

I updated to 10.5.8 from 10.5.2. In order to correct the DMG mounting issues I ripped the seatbelt.kext from 10.5.5 (which worked last time), but now on reboot I get the boot process and then a black screen for about 5 minutes and THEN I get into OS X.

I tried seatbelt from 10.5.2 and same issue. I updated my kernel to 9.8.0 (from 9.2.0 :S) and *think* I got the correct seatbelt.kext and System.kext. I used the ones that came from my PowerBook G4 running 10.5.8. Is this the issue and should I be using other kexts?

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[lanceomni]

As far as Seatbelt.kext and System.kext if you pulled them from 10.5.8 on your G4 they should be fine. You can double check though.
mach_kernel 9.8.0
System.kext 9.8.0
Seatbelt.kext from 10.5.8 (Build 78) You can check this by following the directions below. http://www.infinitemac.com/f5/updated-08-09-dmg-mounting-issues-seatbelt-kext-t1992/

[danielmole]

All seems to be corrected now after removing some nvidia kexts that I no longer used.

Thanks anyway :)

[lanceomni]

Excellent. I was going to mention your graphics injectors but I figured we would tackle one problem at a time. Most of the time extra files like that completely prevent booting into OSX from what I have seen. It is interesting that after an extended period you were able to get into OSX. You do you use an EFI string for your graphics or something else?

[danielmole]

I use an EFI string. All my issues are gone now apart from the fact that USB drives will not work in 10.5.8 but they did in 10.5.2. Last time I fixed this by turning ON legacy device support, but now this just halts the boot completely at 'USBEHCI'.

Any idea what to do about that?