syphilis Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 I installed the other night from the Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD. All went smoothly until reboot when I got stuck in an endless Setup Assistant Loop. After speaking to someone on IRC about it, I managed to get it to progress to the final page telling me to enjoy my new Apple Computer. But when I click Done I get a spinning pinwheel cursor for a few seconds, then Setup Assistant restarts from the beginning again. The advice I recieved from IRC was to edit "/System/Library/CoreServices/Setup Assistant.app/Contents/Info.plist" and remove some of the <strings> which got me further into the setup process, than I had been getting, but still does not allow it to complete properly. If it makes any difference, I am installing it onto a logical partition rather than a primary one. I could remove one of the Linux installs to free up a primary if that is needed, but considering I can boot into Single User Mode with no problem, I do not believe the issue is with partition type. I am familiar with bash and unix in general, but not familiar with OS X and it's file system. I imagine the setup assistant function simply writes some text files, but I do not know what files I will need to manually edit. And what files I will need to remove to stop Setup Assistant from running again. Any advice on this issue would be much appreciated. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/156021-endless-setup-assistant-loop/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberGreg Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 I'm not familiar with the boot manager for Kalaway but if you can get to a boot prompt, this works great on our retail Leopard installs to skip the loop. Type this a your Boot: prompt "Graphics Mode"="640x480x32" Do include the quotes and it should boot up and give you a welcome dialog box. If it does, just reboot because the 640x480 is too small to do anything. Good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/156021-endless-setup-assistant-loop/#findComment-1097721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
syphilis Posted March 4, 2009 Author Share Posted March 4, 2009 I'm not familiar with the boot manager for Kalaway but if you can get to a boot prompt, this works great on our retail Leopard installs to skip the loop. Type this a your Boot: prompt "Graphics Mode"="640x480x32" Good luck Will give that a try thanks. I have been googling this and mostly coming across situations on retail Leopard installs on actual Macs, the solutions are to uprade, which I do not intend on doing on this. But I also just came across a post suggesting to ` touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone ` so i will try that too Can't do it now, as my laptop needs me to plug in an external keyboard, which i did not bring with me Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/156021-endless-setup-assistant-loop/#findComment-1097726 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberGreg Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Will give that a try thanks. I have been googling this and mostly coming across situations on retail Leopard installs on actual Macs, the solutions are to uprade, which I do not intend on doing on this. But I also just came across a post suggesting to ` touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone ` so i will try that too Can't do it now, as my laptop needs me to plug in an external keyboard, which i did not bring with me Yeah I've seen that one too but you have use that in combination with single user mode and a few other terminal commands. If that graphics mode works for you, it's a real time saver. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/156021-endless-setup-assistant-loop/#findComment-1097730 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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