stuck at blue screen on restart |
August, 26, 2002 10:56 AM |
ebolean |
Hi, I have a powermac 7500 with 256 mb ram, powerlogix G3 400 accelerator card, and 2 hard drives (10mb and 2mb). I have OS 9.1 installed on the 10mb drive and am attempting to install OS 10.1 on the 2mb drive with expostfacto 2.2. After several unsuccessful attempts where the installer hung up at installing the additional print drivers, i cut the install back to just the required elements (i.e., no BSD, no print drivers, no foreign language components). With this approach, OSX appeared to install. However, on reboot, OSX goes through some network blah blah blah and then I get a blue screen with a moveable arrow cursor and things stop. I have OSX on an a supported ibook and imac and i think this is the point where i should see a login dialog box. I never had the opportunity to set up an account, which I think should have happened during the install. I tried reloading extensions and x-boot - but that didn't change things. Any suggestions/ideas? Thanks. Bob |
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RE: stuck at blue screen on restart |
August, 26, 2002 2:17 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Generally, problems with the Installer either involve a problematic CD or problems with memory (and the latter seems more common). In particular, it seems that memory with 4K refresh can be problematic (2K refresh is better) [I hope I've got that right :-)]. The other thing you could check for is messages in the log, which would be active by that point. In Mac OS 9, you can find it at this path on the Mac OS X drive: /private/var/log/system.log But the directory "private" is probably invisible, so you may need to use a utility that can deal with that (like BBEdit), or use ResEdit or something else to make it visible. |
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