Migration Assistant crashes on first boot

[shanokee]

Hey,

 

after solving some problems by looking up, I'm finally stuck installing MacOSX on my laptop.

 

My specs:

Thinkpad T61

Intel Core 2 Duo T7250

2GB Ram

Intel GMA 3100

 

My HDD setup:

One internal S-ATA Disk, where Win Vista installed

One IDE-Disk in my Ultraybay, where I installed Mac OS

 

I tried iDeneb v1.3, Leo4All v3, iATKOS 4.1i but none of them bootet: either "waiting for root device" or something else occured during first boot. Installation always went without errors.

 

So finally I installed JaS 10.5.4 and it worked. When booting, I have to plug in a USB-keyboard. So I did and continued the setup assistant. But when asked "Do You Already Own a Mac?" it gives me trouble. Half a minute nothing happens, then the cursor gets "waiting" and then the whole assistant restarts beginning with the 3D-fly-through-space-video. To clarify: I check the option that I don't want to use the assistant right now.

 

Any ideas how to get past this?

 

Thanks for your help, I highlighted the important parts for better understanding.

- shanokee

 

btw: I can boot in single user mode.

[Mastha-Hacker]

So finally I installed JaS 10.5.4 and it worked. When booting, I have to plug in a USB-keyboard. So I did and continued the setup assistant. But when asked "Do You Already Own a Mac?" it gives me trouble. Half a minute nothing happens, then the cursor gets "waiting" and then the whole assistant restarts beginning with the 3D-fly-through-space-video. To clarify: I check the option that I don't want to use the assistant right now.

 

Hi,

 

Don't click on the button Continue in the dialog "Do You Already Own a Mac?". Press the power button until your pc is shutdown. Then restart, and you can click "Continue"!

[Hagar]

Please, this is a very well-known issue, the solution must be posted at least ten times on the forum. If nothing else, just google "welcome loop".

 

The shortest version is to boot with "Graphics Mode"="640x480" which apparently stops the welcome video from trying to play & crashing. Another involves booting -s and running touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone and then setting up a root account with passwd root before rebooting. in my experience this may leave the system somewhat unstable, I have no good theory why this should be.

 

Above all: please search before posting.