Mac OSX 10.4.9 Update - Stuck at bootup

[tmoney468]

Yeah you're right! I guess I overreacted, I saw that it was installing all these programs during the system restore, so I just assumed it was erasing all my programs.

Well the repair install worked fine, booted up fine, and I ran and installed the update this time AFTER doing the repair permissions and it worked great! No more problems for me.

Any idea where this previous systems folder is located? Thanks for your help!

 

[mith]

same thing happened to me

i followed the steps, and have my system back, and now , 10.4.9 installed properly , can i delete the previous system folder now?

 

[Mac the knife]

For anyone with Appljack installed, it may get you up and running as well. My iBook was stuck. Booted into single user mode and typed "applejack auto restart" and let it do it's thing. Rebooted fine.

 

[gost8go]

Just completed the upgrade without incident. My PowerBook G4 17" seems to be running snappier. Gained ~200MB on my hard disc after restart. Is that possible?

The download was slow, about an hour on DSL. And the reboot was ~7 minutes. But everything seems fine and, as I mentioned, running better than before.

On previous OSX upgrades I've had to fsck or repair permissions. Hate that feeling.

 

[nl2134]

Mooney,

I'm running on a PPC and had problems with the installation.

When I tried going to create my previous system there was no option for that. I'm running a PPC iBook G4...

I did all the installation stuff till the end, did all the options and what not and it wasn't there.

Any help?

 

[Mooey]

Mooney,

I'm running on a PPC and had problems with the installation.

When I tried going to create my previous system there was no option for that. I'm running a PPC iBook G4...

I did all the installation stuff till the end, did all the options and what not and it wasn't there.

Any help?

I'm not really sure if I can help you. You said you did all the options, which options are you speaking of?

 

[Mooey]

And for those that are interested, it is safe to delete your previous systems folder.

Unless you want ~15GB of your memory gone

This takes about 5 minutes to delete (around 110,000 files)

 

[nl2134]

Well, I went to the installation screen. It asked about agreeing to terms of installation and all that jazz, but at no time did it ask me whether or not I wanted to create my previous system...

did i miss something in your instructions? i am really stuck

 

[Mooey]

Here are some pictures to help those who are still having problems:

What the install screen should sort of look like:

The three options:

 

[Mooey]

You should go through the agreement crap and get to installation type

there it will tell you what you want to do. See previous screenshot for answers - choose archive and install - sorry I wasn't clear. I couldn't really word what I wanted without finding out what option I chose.

I'll bump the info up to the top for people to see more clearly.

And be sure to click preserve user/network info

 

[nl2134]

Upgrade an earlier version = update from the 'previous systems folder'?

I thought if I had chosen that my entire hard drive would be erased and they'd do a fresh install of tiger...

If I could just get verification from you that that option works, I will try it in the morning...because I read that as 'Upgarde to another version of Tiger, aka the one I have running now because 10.4.9 messed up my computer...

Thanks for your help...

 

[Mooey]

No, choose Archive and Install.

And choose preserve user accounts/network info.

Second option, between upgrade Mac OS X and Erase and Install

 

[nl2134]

Hmmm....okay I already did that...I thought you had a way to install the previous systems folder to get back 10.4.8, the previous settings before the crash occured....that's what I am ultimately trying to do

 

[tivoboy]

same thing

same thing happend to me here, but I managed to get it to boot in SAFE MODE.

Now, I am booted in safe mode, but what should I do now? Repair permissions? Should I use ONYX or is there some other utility in the MAC that one should use?

 

[Mooey]

Hmmm....okay I already did that...I thought you had a way to install the previous systems folder to get back 10.4.8, the previous settings before the crash occured....that's what I am ultimately trying to do

That's what it does. It replaces your old systems folder (calling it Previous Systems), and creates a new one therefore converting everything back to 10.4.8 instead of having it at 10.4.9 with a corrupt file.

 

[Mooey]

same thing happend to me here, but I managed to get it to boot in SAFE MODE.

Now, I am booted in safe mode, but what should I do now? Repair permissions? Should I use ONYX or is there some other utility in the MAC that one should use?

I have no clue how to fix this. I didn't even know Mac had a safe mode - try reinstalling the update?

 

[BobbyDigital]

I don't have enough space on my hard drive for all 15GB... would it be safe to unselect the printer drivers, and garage band stuff etc? will i get all that stuff back when I install 10.4.9? I will have to free up some space of course.

Does anyone know if it is possible to free up space on my hard drive without being able to boot?

I really hope Apple fixes whatever caused this update to fail.

 

[Mr Skills]

I had this problem on a MacBook - the screen was dark and nothing was happening. After 10 minutes I pressed 'increase brightness' (F3 I think) and suddenly it sprang into life. Don't know if that was coincidence. Anyway, before resorting to re-installs try going away and having lunch and seeing if it eventually comes to life... and try pressing some random keys!

 

[Mooey]

I don't have enough space on my hard drive for all 15GB... would it be safe to unselect the printer drivers, and garage band stuff etc? will i get all that stuff back when I install 10.4.9? I will have to free up some space of course.

Does anyone know if it is possible to free up space on my hard drive without being able to boot?

I really hope Apple fixes whatever caused this update to fail.

I would go ahead and try - what's there to lose?

I think you can unselect many of the languages and it'll cut it down dramatically, but I heard that's unsafe when it comes to certain programs.

Anyways, last time I'm updating this thread - peace.

 

[monty77]

Same symptoms for me ... BlackBook C2D w/2Gb RAM - not impressed Apple, I'm getting my folks to go to Apple soon as I'm tired of having to sort out their windows issues but something like this makes me think twice

 

[gikku]

same thing happend to me here, but I managed to get it to boot in SAFE MODE.

Now, I am booted in safe mode, but what should I do now? Repair permissions? Should I use ONYX or is there some other utility in the MAC that one should use?

Repair permissions in Disk Utility, or probably better still run Automation in Onyx, that has Repair Permissions and Optimise and other scripts also. Then try a reboot. This worked for me.