@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…

“I came to same conclusion, I got a white s10 put in 2gb ram and 320 hd, bought a mac box set 10.5.6 with iLife & iWork. I used the dellminiboot dellefi with 2 USB drives method. It was all too beautiful... 200gb iphoto & itunes organizing, …”

“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…”

“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: - t…”

“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…”

“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 de…”

“Running disk utility on this hdd is unlikely to solve anything. Do yourself a favor, grab the normal iso available at parte dmagic.com/ burn it to a cd then boot from it. Now using the file manager ( or terminal ), mount the drive/partition…”

“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…”

“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 kno…”

“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 …”

“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 jus…”

“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 t…”

“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,…”

“@ 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 wit…”

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