I installed 10.5 without a hitch, and during the initial user setup after answering the question regarding the migration of user information from a previous mac, the machine will stall for 2 minutes then automatically repeat the welcome video and back to square one.
I found a previous post where it was determined this is being caused by an unsupported or finicky network interface. Most notably the Marvell NICs.
I also found a way to bypass the initial user setup therefore prevented the OS from trying to do whatever it is trying to do with the NIC.I was able to bypass the initual user setup by creating my own /var/db/.AppleSetupDone file. This will take me directly to the login screen upon reboot. Only a user account was never created since I bypassed initial user setp so I cannot login.
Normally I would think, no problem i'll just create the account from a terminal/console. Except I cannot for the life of me figure out the command to add a user account from the terminal, if it's even possible. I found references to a command "niutil" and "nireport for listing users" but these posts came from forums related to the genuine MacOS on a Mac not a PC.
I am a veteran linux user so don't hold back on me with suggestions. I tried all the typical linux commands to no avail. I have considered making a manual entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow but I have no password hash to copy since no account has a password associate with it to begin with.
Any suggestions? Either how to create the account, or solve the repeating setup wizard?
Full Version: Welcome video repeats after migration wizard.
You can boot with a very low resolution which will bypass the user setup by using a boot flag such as
"GraphicsMode"="640x480x32"
(May or may not be space between Graphics Mode, I cannot remember. You'll know if it doesn't work. Make sure to include quotes)
You can then log in as administrator (no password) and setup an account.
Hope that helps
"GraphicsMode"="640x480x32"
(May or may not be space between Graphics Mode, I cannot remember. You'll know if it doesn't work. Make sure to include quotes)
You can then log in as administrator (no password) and setup an account.
Hope that helps
QUOTE(Orion Sune @ Nov 4 2008, 03:20 PM) 
I installed 10.5 without a hitch, and during the initial user setup after answering the question regarding the migration of user information from a previous mac, the machine will stall for 2 minutes then automatically repeat the welcome video and back to square one.
I found a previous post where it was determined this is being caused by an unsupported or finicky network interface. Most notably the Marvell NICs.
I also found a way to bypass the initial user setup therefore prevented the OS from trying to do whatever it is trying to do with the NIC.I was able to bypass the initual user setup by creating my own /var/db/.AppleSetupDone file. This will take me directly to the login screen upon reboot. Only a user account was never created since I bypassed initial user setp so I cannot login.
Normally I would think, no problem i'll just create the account from a terminal/console. Except I cannot for the life of me figure out the command to add a user account from the terminal, if it's even possible. I found references to a command "niutil" and "nireport for listing users" but these posts came from forums related to the genuine MacOS on a Mac not a PC.
I am a veteran linux user so don't hold back on me with suggestions. I tried all the typical linux commands to no avail. I have considered making a manual entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow but I have no password hash to copy since no account has a password associate with it to begin with.
Any suggestions? Either how to create the account, or solve the repeating setup wizard?
I found a previous post where it was determined this is being caused by an unsupported or finicky network interface. Most notably the Marvell NICs.
I also found a way to bypass the initial user setup therefore prevented the OS from trying to do whatever it is trying to do with the NIC.I was able to bypass the initual user setup by creating my own /var/db/.AppleSetupDone file. This will take me directly to the login screen upon reboot. Only a user account was never created since I bypassed initial user setp so I cannot login.
Normally I would think, no problem i'll just create the account from a terminal/console. Except I cannot for the life of me figure out the command to add a user account from the terminal, if it's even possible. I found references to a command "niutil" and "nireport for listing users" but these posts came from forums related to the genuine MacOS on a Mac not a PC.
I am a veteran linux user so don't hold back on me with suggestions. I tried all the typical linux commands to no avail. I have considered making a manual entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow but I have no password hash to copy since no account has a password associate with it to begin with.
Any suggestions? Either how to create the account, or solve the repeating setup wizard?
Here you are(post from "Caleb Gray
"):
http://www.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t84556.html
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Yes, I also experienced this. The fix was to do this:
1) Boot up, and hit a key (or F8, depending on your Darwin Bootloader).
2) Type in "-s" (NO quotes!) and press enter.
3) Once booted it will tell you to do two things, do them. (You can put them on a single line by using &&: fck && mount [use what they say, I can't recall from memory.])
4) When those commands finish you will (should?) have access to your HDD under /Volumes, so navigate there now: cd "/Volumes/NAME-OF-YOUR-VOLUME-HERE/var/db/" (WITH quotes!)
5) Execute the command: touch .AppleSetupDone
6) Then run: passwd
7) It will ask you for the new password for the user "root." If it doesn't then try "passwd root" instead.
8) The passwords in *nix* OSs are not repeated back to you with asterisks for security purposes. Do not be afraid to type a password, I will assume you use the password: "password."
9) Confirm that OS X is telling you that the password was changed.
10) Keep executing "exit" until it boots into Leopard.
11) Login using the following: username: root password: password
Enjoy! biggrin.gif
1) Boot up, and hit a key (or F8, depending on your Darwin Bootloader).
2) Type in "-s" (NO quotes!) and press enter.
3) Once booted it will tell you to do two things, do them. (You can put them on a single line by using &&: fck && mount [use what they say, I can't recall from memory.])
4) When those commands finish you will (should?) have access to your HDD under /Volumes, so navigate there now: cd "/Volumes/NAME-OF-YOUR-VOLUME-HERE/var/db/" (WITH quotes!)
5) Execute the command: touch .AppleSetupDone
6) Then run: passwd
7) It will ask you for the new password for the user "root." If it doesn't then try "passwd root" instead.
8) The passwords in *nix* OSs are not repeated back to you with asterisks for security purposes. Do not be afraid to type a password, I will assume you use the password: "password."
9) Confirm that OS X is telling you that the password was changed.
10) Keep executing "exit" until it boots into Leopard.
11) Login using the following: username: root password: password
Enjoy! biggrin.gif
Well holy crap, for some reason I did not even think to assign a password to root and using that to login. Thanks to both of you guys, i'm sure between your two suggestion that i'll be up and running no problem.
I'll give a courtesy post when I get home and get it running...
I'll give a courtesy post when I get home and get it running...
both methods work, thanks guys...
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