soaringthor Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 This is a weird one.... I'm booting off of a USB drive. But let's forget that, because right now it's working like a normal defunct installation would. I had an almost perfect installation of iAtkos on my hard drive, which was patched (rather improperly using software update) to 10.5.2. I recently upgraded my hard drive, going from a 160 GB to a 250 GB (yay!!). So I'm trying to get my mac installation from my old hard drive to my new one. Right now, I am using an external hard drive and a donationware tool called Carbon Copy Cloner. CCC makes a bootable clone of the installation, so that you can boot from that clone and run Mac OSX. I had to fix darwin... whatever. So now I have a different situation. The clone will boot, and get through all of its startup routines, and get to the dreaded blue screen, with just a movable cursor. My research shows that this just means the login window isn't starting. But my research doesn't give a clear solution. I've done a chown 1775 /, chmod 1775 / in single user mode on the installation and repaired permissions from the iAtkos DVD. Still, the login screen won't pop up. I'm on a Dell Inspiron 1520, the external drive is just a seagate POS in a maxtor enclosure. Alternatively, does anyone have any ideas on how to get my OS from my old drive to the new, but with no connection directly between the two? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Did you bless it? see here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=30322 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soaringthor Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 I did, but it just said "Dummy bless executed!" So i'm guessing that didn't work. I blessed it from the iAtkos disk, because blessing was part of the Darwin repair process. But just that dummy bless.... Should I try blessing the drive from single user mode? Can I bless the drive from single user mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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