Grey screen fix!!

[chris7418]

Hi all, this may be of some help to those who can get to the grey screen with a mouse cursor in the top left.


After sitting in desperation after adding every possible boot flag combination, and STILL getting the grey screen with a mouse in the top left corner, I just sat and stared, thinking of what I would do next....

After about 30 seconds of pondering, the screen changed to dark grey, and then the installer appeared. Just wait. Hope it works for you.

For the record, I'm on a x58a-ud3r, a 9800GT graphics card, and my bootflags were PCIRootUID=1, and GE=Yes.

 

[Big Hungry Geek]

I would also add: for those having trouble getting into the actual installer, boot with -v (verbose flag) and pay attention to where the text output either slows down and/or pauses indefinitely. This can give you clues as to what the problem might be, and what other boot flags you may need to set to load the installer.

In my case I saw that I needed to use USBBusFix=Yes in addition to GraphicsEnabler=No just to get into the installer.