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Dell Studio 17 iAtkos

Hi, I recently just installed iAtkos on my Dell Studio 17 laptop successfully but when i run boot up i choose the Mac Os to boot up from and it goes to the grey screen with the apple logo, it gets past this but just goes to a blank grey…

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@Killermud Published 2010-04-23
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Leopard 10.5
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8,320 historical reads · 2 curated field notes (from 4 dispatches) · 2010-04-23 – 2010-04-25
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@Killermud (2)@osmarbcn@Imkantus

Hi, I recently just installed iAtkos on my Dell Studio 17 laptop successfully but when i run boot up i choose the Mac Os to boot up from and it goes to the grey screen with the apple logo, it gets past this but just goes to a blank grey screen with some werid lines, I also hear some music but nothing else happens. When i choose verbose mode it goes through various procedures but ultimately just panics and the text goes crazy, ive attacted a photo to explain. (Yes that is the Verbose mode)

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Author Update #1 @Killermud 2010-04-24

How do i do that? Im using Chameleon v2.0 and i cant find any startup options when it boots. It shows me which OS i want to boot from and below there is a few options of how you want to boot, only -v -f -s are available, so what should i do?

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2 technical responses curated from 4 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @osmarbcn 2010-04-24

Display grey screen

Hi, kit all kexts of Video, ATI, NV, GForce, INTELGMA.Kexts, boot -x and remove this kexts.

Good Luck

Field Note #2 @Imkantus 2010-04-25

Boot using -s bootflag & use the following Syntax on the command prompt:

mount -uw /
rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX2000.kext
rm -r /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
reboot

Then try to boot normal again.

Sources & Contributor Provenance (3 credited usernames · Thread #6025)
UsernameDossier ContributionDispatchesActive Window
@KillermudPrimary Author22010-04-23 → 2010-04-24
@osmarbcnContributor12010-04-24
@ImkantusContributor12010-04-25