[elmi4711]

Hello altogether,

I wonder if anyone ever tried this and has a hint as to what I should do.
I could not find anything to this in the archives...if I missed a text there,
please send a pointer ;-)

I had a nicely working OSX installation in a Mini 9 (2 GB RAM, 16 GiB STAC) and have moved both RAM and Harddisk to a second Mini 9 (the original one is red and should go to my girlfriend, running XP).

Safe boot (-x) works, normal boot ends on the apple logo grey screen, sometimes gets as far as the nice blue screen.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the EFI drivers and the dsdt.aml file, to no
avail. Single user boot works fine, so, if there's anything I should manually
screw around with, that's easily done.

I guess it has to do with one of three differences in the new chassis:

(1) different system serial tag
(2) has a WWAN MiniPCIe slot (still empty, but...)
(3) has a UK keyboard as opposed to the DE keyboard in the first one

BIOS is A05 on both, USB legacy support is disabled.

In verbose boot (-v) the system seems to run through everything (even
reports the login application to have started), and a while later drops me
to the nice blue screen again...no login...

So, experienced people - where should I look?

Thank you for any help,
elmi.

[Aaroneff]

I am also having the same problem with the boot screen hanging. Safe mode works okay but verbose and normal boot land me on a nice blue screen. Also, I am only using the factory default hardware. Any help would be much appreciated.

[elmi4711]

No takers? Honestly? Nobody has an idea?

Shitshitshitshitshit...

[spida505]

Have you tried booting from usb stick and running DellEFI from there?

[eugene]

Did anyone have any success on getting rid of the "Hanging screen on boot up"?