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Re: New kernel not running.
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Re: New kernel not running.


  • Subject: Re: New kernel not running.
  • From: Terry Lambert <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:32:43 -0800

On Feb 21, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Markus Hitter wrote:
Am 21.02.2007 um 06:20 schrieb Romit Dasgupta:
Hi,
I did just that, it doesn not seem to go beyond the grey screen. Just
seems like its hung or something.

If you see a grey screen, you didn't (successfully) press Command-v.

Actually, you still see the grey screen with the Apple logo while the machine is POST-ing and loading BootX, but before it has loaded the rest of the kernel and called bsd_init().


If it can't load BootX or the kernel, depending on the firmware, the screen will stay grey, and will show either a broken folder icon or an international interdictory symbol, indicating a permissions/ownership/ link-count problem on one of the container directories, or the kernel or BootX itself.

Once bsd_init() is called, the VM and console code is hooked by BSD, and it will start printf'ing text to the screen, starting with the Copyright out of bsd_init() itself.

It sounds like he's not getting far enough to have the kernel loaded:


When it reboots I can see the grey screen. But, instead of the Apple
logo at the centre of the screen I can see some undecipherable image.
What am I missing?

At this point, he can:

(1)	Try what we've told him to try

(2) Take a digital picture of what he sees, and post it to a website somewhere (e.g. <http://www.flickr.com/>) so we can see it too, and try to help him further

(3) Go to Google or <http://developer.apple.com> and search for other people with his symptoms, and what they did to fix it.

-- Terry
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References: 
 >New kernel not running. (From: "Romit Dasgupta" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: New kernel not running. (From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>)
 >Re: New kernel not running. (From: "Romit Dasgupta" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: New kernel not running. (From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>)

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