Hang at Blue screen!

[inedible]

Hi there!

I've tried searching the forums here, at insanelymac, and at osx86scene, but I haven't been able to find anyone with my problem...

I downloaded the iso from the newsgroup, used quickpar to patch the missing pieces, extracted the iso with the correct md5sum, burned it at 4x..

When I try to boot off the dvd in my Toshiba u300 it hangs at a blue screen with no mouse cursor. No amount of boot options seems to help.

I know the dvd is fine, since I put it in my desktop and it gets through the installer with no problems... so I put my laptop harddrive in my desktop and used that to install it, but when I put it back in the laptop and try to boot into the os, I'm stuck at the same f**ing blue screen!

I'm able to boot into single user mode, and I've tried looking through the logs, though it seems by the time it hits the blue screen it's no longer logging anything.

Has anyone had this problem before??

Thanks!

[gipo]

Why don't you post something about your laptop's hardware? maybe someone can understand...

[WinLinMac01]

There's a blue-screen-of-death in a mac? But how? Just kidding. This is a odd problem, never had that.

[inedible]

Sure, My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite u300 psu34c-ns108c.

The video/chipset is an intel 945gml (i think) which has always been detected as a gma900 and worked qe/ci out of the box in prev versions. it's got a core duo 1.73ghz processor, the dvd and harddrive are both sata, the realtek 8136 lan and the atheros 5006x wifi are on the pci-e bus (which is apparently nonfunctional, based on my experiences with other versions of osx).. keyboard and trackpad are both ps2, which was flaky on 10.5.1 and nonfunctional after update to 10.5.2.

I've tried disabling everything I can in the bios, including lan, trackpad, 2nd core, execute disable bit, usb legacy mode.. to no avail.

Funny thing is it seems when I'm stuck at this blue screen it's not completely frozen... if I press space, enter, or esc, or the power button it spins up the drive and acts like it's doing something for a few seconds then stops again.

I'm stumped.

[inedible]

Let me know if you need specifics on any parts, I have windows installed as well and I can find deviceids and stuff.

Seriously though, has no one had this problem before?
Normally it blinks past this blue screen in a second, then paints the desktop wallpaper and a mouse cursor appears... but I'm stuck at the point before that happens, and I can't find anything in the logs that gives any indication what's going on at this point or why it won't go any further.

[Cromwell]

I had same issue. Try to remove sound & ethernet kexts.

[inedible]

[cite] Cromwell:[/cite]I had same issue. Try to remove sound & ethernet kexts.

remove them from the dvd?

how?

[zephyroth]

There's a link to the Wiki on this Forum ! Use it, please !

[Cromwell]

[cite] inedible:[/cite] remove them from the dvd? how?

Try to remove its from installed system (System\Library\Extensions\) using TransMac with Windows.

[inedible]

Thanks zephyroth, for what I'm told is a great release... but your solution is a bit vague... there is no link to the wiki here, and what's on the wiki involves *adding* kexts... not mysterious blue screens.

Anyways, I used MacDrive (couldn't figure out how to do it with transmac) to delete some kexts from the installation on my hard drive... With 250 kexts to choose from, I deleted IONetworkingFamily.kext, AppleHDASomethingOrOther.kext, IOAudioFamily.kext, and IO80211Family.kext, as well as Extentions.mkext.

Still stuck at the blue screen.