I really hate reinstalling systems. But sometimes you must.
G4 with new OS 10.2 just installed. Auto restart goes to log in window. Me and the troubleshooting account. If I choose "me" startup ends with a black screen in "Console" with a login prompt. I login and get the standard Darwin prompt from Terminal. I just read where q! may be the command I need but I'll try that tomorrow.
If I choose the troubleshooter account the pinwheel/beachball reigns supreme. I let it run once 20 minutes trying to login.
What I really need is to reboot to my OS 9. Is there a way to change the startup disk via command prompt?
Oh, and opening in Safe mode changes nothing about logging in to either account.
Joy.
hayne
02-23-2006, 04:05 AM
Did you do "Repair Disk" when you were booted from the Install CD? You should.
avalon
02-23-2006, 12:40 PM
Did you do "Repair Disk" when you were booted from the Install CD? You should.
I have. And the permissions. The same symptoms persist. Full screen console on one monitor, stymied logon on the other. Somewhere in all this the full screen of the console jumped monitors and is now on the secondary one.
This computer has 2 hard drives. Mac OS X and OS 9. I decided to boot it into Target Disk Mode but I can only see the OS 9 drive. So I made a little space on it. I decided to see if the 10.2 install CD could still see the main drive with the installer or the Disk Utility. It could on both so I tried to repair the disk again but it failed because it could not be unmounted because it was in use.
Right now it's in T-Mode again and I can still only see the OS 9 disk.
Ideas?
avalon
02-23-2006, 01:08 PM
I've been doing the cd work on this problem with a 10.2 Install Disk because that's the most recent system installed on the screwy computer. It just occured to me that the 10.4 Install disk has a feature the 10.2 lacks: Startup Disk. So now I have successfully boot to OS 9, where I can really do some OS X damage!
At least OS 9 does see the OS X hard drive.
hayne
02-23-2006, 03:07 PM
I'd recommend backing up any files that are on that disk while you have the chance.
After that, it might be a good idea to erase the disk and start fresh.
But backup in any case as the disk might be about to fail.
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