20 minutes into the installation of Snow Leopard, my computer made a noise. Then it started back up and now its on a black screen. I just bought this macbook pro too.
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MacBook won't boot after installing Snow Leopard...
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I think I fixed it. Do this and see it it works.
Do all of this stuff without ac plug in.
1. Shut down the computer.
2. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
3. Turn on the computer.
4. Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
5. Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
6. Release the keys.
7. Hit "C" key
8. Click on Mac OS icon (Snow Leopard)
Do all of this stuff without ac plug in.
1. Shut down the computer.
2. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
3. Turn on the computer.
4. Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
5. Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
6. Release the keys.
7. Hit "C" key
8. Click on Mac OS icon (Snow Leopard)
Stuck on reboot
@morgothaod: I tried what you suggested, but I just get a message on boot-up that says I need to restart my computer by holding down the power button. But when I do this it just boots up to the same message. Any ideas? This is driving me crazy.
@morgothaod: I tried what you suggested, but I just get a message on boot-up that says I need to restart my computer by holding down the power button. But when I do this it just boots up to the same message. Any ideas? This is driving me crazy.
My first posting ever. I have a MacbookAir, and am using the DVD-CD in my iMac (connected by ethernet cable; it couldn't even figure out the wireless connection).
I have exactly same situation as Philly-GUI-Dude of September 6th. It seems like too much of a coincidence to me.
I ended up i) remote installing from the SL DVD (power button holding option key on the MacbookAir; Remote Install from utilities menu of the iMac with the drive), ii) going then to Utilities on the MBA instead of install, trying to Verify and then Repair the disk -- I got an error message saying I needed to erase everything, so iii) erased the disk. Fortunately, my data was backed up.
Pretty annoying.
The second time I've heard about a SL install crashing an MBA.
If anybody knows more about this, I'm curious.
I have exactly same situation as Philly-GUI-Dude of September 6th. It seems like too much of a coincidence to me.
I ended up i) remote installing from the SL DVD (power button holding option key on the MacbookAir; Remote Install from utilities menu of the iMac with the drive), ii) going then to Utilities on the MBA instead of install, trying to Verify and then Repair the disk -- I got an error message saying I needed to erase everything, so iii) erased the disk. Fortunately, my data was backed up.
Pretty annoying.
The second time I've heard about a SL install crashing an MBA.
If anybody knows more about this, I'm curious.
Remember the Video killed the Radio Star? The same happened with my 17" Mac Book Pro. Snow Leopard killed it!
Here is what I had done
1. Updated 10.5.6 to 10.5.8,
2. Checked permissions before installing SL, no errors.
3. Inserted the SL DVD
4. Installed fine
5. Started the first time
6. Put username and password
7. Dock is visible but top bar is not there. Relaunched Finder a million times
8. Spinning wheel of death aka SWOD wont go away
9. Tried all the above suggestions about boot from CD, reset PRAM, NVRAM. Nada. Niente. Zero.
Even contacted the very useful NOOOOT *with my Borat voice* people at Apple and got nowhere...
So... logged on in Safe mode (that is the only thing that would allow finder to launch), saved all my stuff into my Time Capsule (thank God for that) and.... Erased my hard disk. I prayed a bit to the IT gods and re-installed from scratch. Now am moving my photos and iTunes library back into my newly installed Snow Leopard Macbook Pro.
Was it worth all the aggro? Hell yeah!
Here is what I had done
1. Updated 10.5.6 to 10.5.8,
2. Checked permissions before installing SL, no errors.
3. Inserted the SL DVD
4. Installed fine
5. Started the first time
6. Put username and password
7. Dock is visible but top bar is not there. Relaunched Finder a million times
8. Spinning wheel of death aka SWOD wont go away
9. Tried all the above suggestions about boot from CD, reset PRAM, NVRAM. Nada. Niente. Zero.
Even contacted the very useful NOOOOT *with my Borat voice* people at Apple and got nowhere...
So... logged on in Safe mode (that is the only thing that would allow finder to launch), saved all my stuff into my Time Capsule (thank God for that) and.... Erased my hard disk. I prayed a bit to the IT gods and re-installed from scratch. Now am moving my photos and iTunes library back into my newly installed Snow Leopard Macbook Pro.
Was it worth all the aggro? Hell yeah!
Repair Permissions Worked
I also had the problem of a stall on the white apple page with the racing worm. Inserting the SL install disk and using repair permissions resulted in a repair of one permission. After the repair permissions was complete, I re-installed SL and it booted up fine.
As I repaired permissions immediately prior to installing SL the first time, the permissions problem must have occurred during the first install.
I also had the problem of a stall on the white apple page with the racing worm. Inserting the SL install disk and using repair permissions resulted in a repair of one permission. After the repair permissions was complete, I re-installed SL and it booted up fine.
As I repaired permissions immediately prior to installing SL the first time, the permissions problem must have occurred during the first install.
i have no solutions for you but i can help u get ur dvd out.
when u press the power on button and after hearing the booting sound quickly press the eject button and keep on pressing till dvd is out!
i have a macbook with the snowleopard osx 10.6 and my macbook wont boot past the apple logo!
i've tried pratically everything
cmd+option+p+r
snowleopard dvd+c after the booting sound
cmd+v
taking of battery
taking of adpter
evry single thing but it wont just past that hateful apple logo!!
the last operation i did was to cancel from my avast antivirus for mac "log system file" that was "according to the antivirus" a decompression bomb so i eliminated it directly from the source in finder and after that pages won't just open and so i tried rebooting the system hoping it'll solve the problem but then it just keeps remaining stuck at the apple logo!!
i can't take it to repair without an applecare it'll just be a hell of money!
can anyone pls help me??
i'm despirate!!
i've tried pratically everything
cmd+option+p+r
snowleopard dvd+c after the booting sound
cmd+v
taking of battery
taking of adpter
evry single thing but it wont just past that hateful apple logo!!
the last operation i did was to cancel from my avast antivirus for mac "log system file" that was "according to the antivirus" a decompression bomb so i eliminated it directly from the source in finder and after that pages won't just open and so i tried rebooting the system hoping it'll solve the problem but then it just keeps remaining stuck at the apple logo!!
i can't take it to repair without an applecare it'll just be a hell of money!
can anyone pls help me??
i'm despirate!!
hateful apple logo?
Sounds like you broke the system by removing essential system files. Contact avast for support.
Hold Option after hearing startup sound, insert SL disk, and reinstall
For my Macbook 2,1 with a faulty dvd drive, the only solution was to build an usb stick drive with snow leopard on it. At first, I had the appeyukon2 problem that won't let me install the operating system. It only worked after rebuilding the usb stick another time with the Disk Utility. I don't know what was wrong the first time, always did it with GUID partition scheme.