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psychonautuk 03-10-2008 07:48 PM
Hi,

Well I got it installed to an extent, I had everything ticked bar the laguages and fonts. I have an Nforce board so all relevant boxes were ticked.

I did have to fix the EFI though but it is loading to an extent in that I see a grey background load, the colour wheel spin, it goes to a pointer and then the screen goes black.

Then the grey background and the pointer comes back and it just this over and over.

does anyone have any ideas, I've looked through the forum but not seen anything like my prob..

Any helps appreciated.

kisho 03-10-2008 08:22 PM
hey i have the same problem

rfuilrez 03-10-2008 08:27 PM
http://osx86.wikidot.com/how-to-s#toc5

It's a known issue. The installer doesn't install the GUID bootloader correctly.

psychonautuk 03-10-2008 08:55 PM
Isnt that the blinking cursor error though? Thats different, to mine, I actually see the OS load, if I use -v it runs through and passes the verbose mode to get to the above mentioned problem. I notice at the bottom of the wiki on how to fix the GUID it says "GUID bootloader must be now installed correctly."

Is this bad english and means it is now installed correctly, or it now needs to be installed correctly?

zephyroth 03-10-2008 09:02 PM
"GUID bootloader is now installed correctly"

WinLinMac01 03-10-2008 09:47 PM
yes it is, especially with the PPF patch that was made available according to someone inquired about it on another discussion.

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[cite] zephyroth:[/cite]"GUID bootloader is now installed correctly"

psychonautuk 03-10-2008 09:57 PM
Ah, well I fixed that problem.. it gets past that now it just does that flashing screen thing!

WinLinMac01 03-10-2008 10:18 PM
I had that problem as well once with the initial 10.5.2 Rev. 1 release, wait for the next release tonight and give it another try. If you don't prefer that method, consider MBR.
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[cite] psychonautuk:[/cite]Ah, well I fixed that problem.. it gets past that now it just does that flashing screen thing!

kisho 03-10-2008 10:38 PM
hey i get the same problem but i installed it by formatting it MBR
my computer http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/5876/5876sp3.shtml
my video card is Nvida 6100.

Can anyone help me with this

psychonautuk 03-10-2008 10:56 PM
my boot help thing is corrucpted and I saw someone mention using -x on boot...

Well that worked, and depite having the drivers selected at install I have none is seems so will have to fix that :)

What does -x do anyway? can anyone point me in the direction of learning how to write/assembling my own drivers, I have an unusual soundcard

thanks