Drunlade Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 This may have been covered but I've not found much on it... After installing, the boot stops with the Apple Logo and Spining Cog. Just sits there spinning. I've left it 20 minutes or more and no change. The machine is : G4 QS 800Mhz, 768mb RAM. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27810-spinning-cog/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 when you turn it on, hold the "appe" key and "v" until the screen goes black and you see letters on it. Doing this says what it is doing while the cog is spinning. If it is not turning on, something is repeating. Please tell me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27810-spinning-cog/#findComment-189902 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunlade Posted September 16, 2006 Author Share Posted September 16, 2006 Loads of text goes past, I paused it now and then using ctrl-s and wrote bits down, but mainly the same stuff all the way : launchd[1]: 16/com.apple.diskarbitrationd exited with code: 69 - exiting this instance with error 1102 check-in of Mach service failed. PID 1211 is not privileged and eventually says too many errors, and stops doing anything at all. I know this is Alpha so I didn't expect much more still, it'd be nice if the problem is fixable. The system is installed on one of three HDs - not the one I usually boot off, I dont want to lose the old system of course Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27810-spinning-cog/#findComment-190143 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunlade Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 No one got any clues on this? Sorry to bump... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27810-spinning-cog/#findComment-192645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Try booting it in single user mode ( command + s I believe) and repairing permissions with "diskutil repairPermissions /", without the quotes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27810-spinning-cog/#findComment-192648 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunlade Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 I got an error saying 'setuid-tool' couldn't be used/loaded when running "diskUtils repairPermissions /". Meh, maybe its complaining about which drive its on. No idea really. Seems to be not able to load a whole load of stuff (in verbose/single user mode a fair few "cant do this" type errors go past). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27810-spinning-cog/#findComment-192852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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