gray screen hang up following 10.6.8 update - a little help?

[theerikjohnson]

i'm pretty new to this and getting frustrated. for a couple days now i've been trying this and reading a buttload of these forum threads. i still managed to get stuck.

ASUS P8Z68-V LE board
i5-2500
ATI Radeon HD 5450

Here's what i did:
-iBoot CD
-retail DVD 10.6 install
-reboot

-multibeast
-easybeast
-system utilites
-reboot

-update helper
-reboot

-MultiBeast
-easybeast
-System Utilities
-Reboot

-update 10.6.8
-multibeast
-easybeast
-system utilities

-reboot

I get a hang up on the grey mac logo screen, sometimes it has the ticking circle, other times nothing. i tried using the disk utility app on the install disk to repair the disk permissions. still the same.

when i attempted a boot with "-v" i get this business:
photo(1).JPG

Thanks in advance,

 

[renjithis]

[PCI configuration begins] stuck is a common problem, but could be because of different causes.

Try adding one or combinations of the below boot parameters

PCIRootUID=0
PCIRootUID=1
npci=0x2000
GraphicsEnabler=yes
GraphicsEnabler=no

try google and you'll get a lot of results for your problem

If you have no specific reason to use SnowLeopard, I would suggest using Lion

PS : Try not to post photos upside down

 

[hackpaul]

I'm stuck at the same point, but with a lion boot.
I tried all of those boot commands, and I'm still getting stuck at the same spot. Help!

 

[renjithis]

Try removing the ATI graphics card and boot with HD3000. That should get you to desktop, but without hardware accelleration

 

[theerikjohnson]

thanks for your help.

npci-0x2000 and GraphicsEnabler=no got me back into the desktop. but now it won't recognize my USB flash drive, which has multibeast on it.

i also tried to remove the ATI graphics card but then the two boot flags above don't work to get me back to the desktop.

I suppose i could start over and save multibeast to the desktop before i run the 10.6.8 update. any other suggestions to get USB flash drive back?

 

[renjithis]

You may have replace a few kexts, namely
IOUSBFamily
IOUSBMassStorage

I think there is an option for that in multibeast - IOUSB rollback or something.
You should have backed up those kexts before the update.
Try searching for them in the net, you'll find a lot (only some of them will work for you, u have to find which), try them one by one, reboot and if that doesnt work, download another.

 

[mlpsencik]

Having same issue here - successfully installed multibeast and combo update. However, when I restart everything halts at the gray apple screen. Tried every bootup option above as well as anything I could found searching through the forums. No luck. I've formatted and reinstalled probably a dozen times now trying different things.

 

[Unwesen]

I changed 2 SLE kext modified by netkas to override
PCI Configuration halt.

Google -> dell 1330 netkas kexts

to find them.

Backup yours before you try them.

 

[renjithis]

Having same issue here - successfully installed multibeast and combo update. However, when I restart everything halts at the gray apple screen. Tried every bootup option above as well as anything I could found searching through the forums. No luck. I've formatted and reinstalled probably a dozen times now trying different things.

Always boot with -v until you have completed seting up the hackintosh. There is not much info to be got from "halts at the gray apple screen"

 

[totenkopf4]

theericjohnson

did you run the update helper program before you installed 10.6.8 then multibeast

see this url

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/07/ ... -1068.html