kevin1 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 hi, I had a problem booting into mac os x using darwin 8.0.1, I installed darwin 8.0.1. After it installed I booted from the hard drive. When it was counting down to boot from the hard drive I typed -F (which ignores the boot file) so it would look like a dark gray apple logo with a light gray backround and a circle loading thing but not with all the code. So it started loading. But once it had been loading for a wile it turned into a black backround with white text and it said: Darwin/BSD (osxbox.local) (console) Login: root Passwod: Last login: Sun Jun 25 07:17:24 on console Jun 25 09:01:12 osxbox login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON console Welcome to Darwin! osxbox:~ root# █ I logged in and now it expects me to enter a command where the thing is that looks like this: █. So I entered startx & but then I don't know what to do next. So can someone please tell me what to enter to keep booting up Mac os x so I can use it? Thanks Kevin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20838-help-with-startx/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 why did you ignore the boot file? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20838-help-with-startx/#findComment-137885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddicus Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 just curious why you installed darwin? Why not use one of the OS X install DVDs out there? I've never heard of someone installing Darwin and then OSX over it, not completely sure that'd work. Sorry if I'm not getting the point of the question, just not sure you're going about it the right way. -Good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20838-help-with-startx/#findComment-137903 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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