jfn Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 I'm installing onto another Thinkpad T30, with Linux. The first partition is for OS X, and second has a running Linux installation with GRUB. The installation went smoothly, and GRUB boots into OS X fine, which runs the welcome movie. However, after the second screen ("Do you want to transfer settings from another mac"), pressing continue goes back into the welcome video again - infinite loop. I've tried the following things: Booting OS X using the DVD instead of GRUB (same problem) Repairing permissions (same problem) Booting with -x -v (doesn't even boot) Now, the only thing that seems strange on this machine that could be causing a problem is that the partition table is strange, or something - PartitionMagic won't read it. However, since OS X starts booting fine, I doubt that's actually causing a problem here. Any ideas? This is *so* close to working, so it's really aggravating! At least Linux still runs fine so I can mess around with stuff. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12502-welcome-video-repeats-two-screens-into-getting-started/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainecrab Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Try it with just -v so you can see where it errors out. That way you can have some idea of the problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12502-welcome-video-repeats-two-screens-into-getting-started/#findComment-79321 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishkorp Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 when i had this problem with 10.4.3 i booted with mach_kernel.nonx and it worked. the default kernel should be NONX but for some reason i had to type that at the boot prompt to make it work. didn't have that problem with 10.4.4 or 10.4.5 though. give it a try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12502-welcome-video-repeats-two-screens-into-getting-started/#findComment-79373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfn Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 Thanks for the help guys. -v showed that a crash log was being printed to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Setup Assistant.crash.log, which I looked at - it was very long, didn't bother to try to make sense of it because I first tried to reinstall, which worked. Yeah, sort of anticlimatic. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12502-welcome-video-repeats-two-screens-into-getting-started/#findComment-79592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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