[peekj]

Hoping someone could help me out....

The other day I was trying to get into safe mode so I could transition from DellEFI1.2a5 to NBI. I understand that -x is the way to get into safe mode but if I boot with -x, I get stuck at the grey screen with the apple logo and the spinner (just keeps spinning).

Impatient as I was, I installed NBI from regular mode and now the graphics drivers seem to be hooped as I get stuck at a blue screen on bootup. I tried the external monitor trick but it didn't work.

So, can anyone assist me in either fixing my video issue or getting me into safe mode?

Edit: If I leave the grey screen up long enough when booting with -x, I also get to the blue screen but am stuck there again. I can get to a console when booting with -s if that will help me...

[Max_Carnage]

Edit: If I leave the grey screen up long enough when booting with -x, I also get to the blue screen but am stuck there again.

Are you sure it's locking up? Because safe mode is hella-slow...

[peekj]

Originally Posted by Max_Carnage

Are you sure it's locking up? Because safe mode is hella-slow...

Pretty sure. I'm going to leave it sit here for about an hour now, just to confirm.

[bmcclure937]

You could always boot to a USB patched with NBM and run NBI from Utilities

that would be your best bet!

[meklort]

If you happen to have a usb drive that you prepared with NetbookBootMaker, I'd boot to it and run NetbookInstaller form the Utilities menu.

[peekj]

Well that is sort of where was I headed. I did this so I could upgrade to SL. So I will need to use NetbookBootMaker anyways, to patch a usb.

Problem is, I don't have another mac to patch a usb with. I was going to do it with the 10v before I busted it.

And also, I have a backup from before that I could restore but what would I do differently this time when running NBI so that it doesn't just cause the same problem again?

[peekj]

Somewhere I read how to remove the video drivers from the console, but I can't find out where anymore. Does anyone know? If I could get rid of the offending video driver, I could at least get back to 10.5.8 with DellEFI.

[meklort]

NetbookInstaller makes a backup when you run it, so try running this
mount -uw /
mv /Extra /Extra.old
mv /Extra.bak /Extra
It only keeps a backup from the previous run, so if you run it twice, it'll overwrite the backup.

[peekj]

Hmm, the Extra.bak files seem to be the DellEFI extensions but even after changing them back like you suggested... still stuck at the blue screen.

[peekj]

Guess I am installing from scratch tonight. Thanks for the suggestions though.