mrfrisky330 Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Recently upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. All went well, installed correctly ran lovely, then the software update screen pops up saying there is a 1.7GB update for the OS, downloaded it, installed ok it then rebooted the system and promptly crashed after the white screen and the music with what looked like a list of register values and a an error message. Hmmm... Restored the computer from a TimeMachine backup, went through the same process, installed fine, message about the 1.7GB update, installed ok reboots computer crashes. Questions are: What causes this? How can I skip past the corrupting update and get any later ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 hello post ur hardware specifications .. good idea .. update in ur profile.. signature .. something like me and the majority users have it in the end answers.. it help u and help the others want to help and give all info about the problem .. photo .. logs good hack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfrisky330 Posted October 31, 2014 Author Share Posted October 31, 2014 Updated signature, logs? If it won't boot I can't get em!! As for a picture.... not exactly excited about spending nearly 3 hours to reinstall Mountain Lion then spend another hour downloading the "update" then watching it die finding a camera and then spending 2 hours restoring it to Snow Leopard... But in the interest of science I might do it tomorrow...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 hello that is ur call .. to know .. we are good .. but not magicians .. and with that kind of info .. u can only guess .. anyway good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfrisky330 Posted October 31, 2014 Author Share Posted October 31, 2014 and these was me hoping this was a common issue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfrisky330 Posted October 31, 2014 Author Share Posted October 31, 2014 Ran a snazzy program called etrecheck which lists everything to do with the iMac. Have attached it in case something rings a bell as to why this mysterious issues keep occuring, interestingly after the first time it committed suicide I restored the iMac back to Snow Leopard from timemachine reinstalled Mountain Lion and ran it for 1 week without updating at it was fine, download and install the first update for it: KABOOOOMMMMM! mrfriskys_imac.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfrisky330 Posted November 1, 2014 Author Share Posted November 1, 2014 Reinstalled Mountain Lion, everything went well, update came up for the 10.8.5 combo update, knowing what will happen (for science) I downloaded and installed it. As predicted KABBOOOOOOMMM!! Have attached a screen shot of the crash on boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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