Hi,

running 10.4.9 (uphuck) and while everything works as it should and on my rig (Dell GX280) getting decent boot time (14 sec), there is this one issue I still did not solve.

Blinking cursor after reboot. Not every reboot but still quite often. Well, I found a workaround: Ranish Partition Manager tells that MBR is "Unknown IPL" so I change it to "Standart IPL" or "Bootloader", save over it, reboot and there we go, same good old Tiger.

I am suspicious of few apps that might tap the MBR and stay away from them; I have even stopped using apps like VMWare or similar system heavy stuff, because thats when I got those blinking cursor misadventures earlier. Still, even if I only run word processing, web browser and media players, after reboot it just happens again.

I mean, I know I should be lucky I can bring the Tiger back to life, but honestly: this just sucks.

Any thoughts?

May somewhat educated guess would be that it has to do with improper shutdown in the restart like a process is not getting completely done before the PC tries to start back up. Or option 2 could be your HardDrive. I had an issue with my setup and I noticed that I would have to shut down completely and wait then turn the system back on. but mine was like that on every reboot.