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06/12/2008 11:37:53 AM · #1 |
I installed Leopard last night and it went fine except for the "Drivers and Printers" part. I used it for a few hours, cleaned up my drive, got Time Machine going on my external drive and then went for a re-unstall to get the Drivers since my sound was knocked out.
Now it loops at the opening white screen with the grey apple. That's all that happens and there's no controls that come on to navigate out of it.
I hope I didn't just ruin my life.
Anyone have this issue or know what my options are?
Message edited by author 2008-06-12 11:39:36. |
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06/12/2008 11:44:18 AM · #2 |
Did you do a clean install or an Archive and Install?
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06/12/2008 11:45:02 AM · #3 |
| Hold the shift key down when you startup to force it into Safe Boot. It'll run some disk routines that might clear the problem. If you know how to run FSCK, that would be your second option. Failing that, your best bet is Archive & Install. |
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06/12/2008 11:58:37 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Hold the shift key down when you startup to force it into Safe Boot. It'll run some disk routines that might clear the problem. If you know how to run FSCK, that would be your second option. Failing that, your best bet is Archive & Install. |
I'll try the "shift key" thing.
doctornick-I ran a straight install because my computer is full. I keep a lot sitting on my hardrive and backed up almost everything to an external HD. Once I installed (minus the drivers) I then cleared out a bunch on image folders (RAW).
Originally posted by scalvert:
Failing that, your best bet is Archive & Install. |
Hopefully I can clean/clear enough room in that Safe Boot Mode to make space for the archive although I'm concerned that my installation thus far has possibly killed the "archive" benefit.
Message edited by author 2008-06-12 12:03:12. |
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06/12/2008 12:06:01 PM · #5 |
| A full HD can do ugly things since it restricts UNIX caches. You should keep about 5% of your HD free. |
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06/12/2008 01:26:33 PM · #6 |
Did you get a full TIme Machine backup done? If so you can boot from the DVD and reinstall with that (takes forever though)
Booting from the DVD and running Disk FIrst ?Aid etc may helo....ie: repairing disk permissions
Message edited by author 2008-06-12 13:27:10.
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06/12/2008 02:42:53 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by dacrazyrn:
Did you get a full TIme Machine backup done? If so you can boot from the DVD and reinstall with that (takes forever though)
Booting from the DVD and running Disk FIrst ?Aid etc may helo....ie: repairing disk permissions |
I think I ran Leopard for an hour or two and it looked like Time Machine kicked in twice. When I tried to do a Search I got a message that the computer was indexing my files and that lasted a minute or two.
I have no idea how long it would take for Time Machine to do the full job but I'm not sure if I had too many folders/files to back-up at that point. It may have done a full backup.
I cannot run the DVD or do anything as I only have a white screen (pre-Blue Screen) appearing. No functions work and nothing is on the screen except the Grey Start-Up Apple icon (dead center) and the circular time thing (not the color wheel). I'm stuck at the white screen.
Message edited by author 2008-06-12 14:43:38. |
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06/12/2008 02:46:29 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by pawdrix:
I'm stuck at the white screen. |
Hold down the power button until it turns off and go from there. |
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06/12/2008 03:11:50 PM · #9 |
| there is something about people taking their computers to the zoo and handing it to a leopard and expecting it to work afterwards... :P |
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06/12/2008 03:31:02 PM · #10 |
| I was under the impression that software issues did not exist on Macs... :-p |
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06/12/2008 03:33:02 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by JimiRose:
I was under the impression that software issues did not exist on Macs... :-p |
You're probably confusing viruses/malware. Any computer can get screwed up. |
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06/16/2008 10:22:39 PM · #12 |
Leopard has been a bit of a challenge for a lot of people. You get different results depending on the hardware you install it on (I run it on my own Mac Pro, MacBook and unsupported PPCs, as well as managing computer labs).
There are minor bugaboos (Finder stuff), annoyances (it seems to have killed internal modems and messed up external ones) and also the occasional serious freeze and kernel panic (at least on the PPC).
I understand Apple redid the guts of the OS for Leopard. And Tiger itself had 11 updates! Leopard has had 3 thus far.
I recommend keeping a clone of your system (use Carbon Copy Cloner, free) on an external drive for alternate booting and utilities.
For now, try connecting the dead Mac to another working one with a FireWire cable and reboot your dead Mac while holding the T key. This will boot it in Target modeĆ¢it will appear as a hard drive icon on the desktop of the good Mac. Run utilities from the good Mac, clone it over, etc.
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06/16/2008 10:33:35 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Originally posted by JimiRose:
I was under the impression that software issues did not exist on Macs... :-p |
You're probably confusing viruses/malware. Any computer can get screwed up. |
On the other hand, we run FreeBSD, the kernel used by OSX. We have typical continuous server uptime of greater than 600 days. And when something loses that kind of uptime, it's usually because the machine was shut down for a hardware swap or some such. |
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