guice Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Okay, so I was just about to run the post install script to copy the files back over per the 10.4.9 forum I saw when my desktop just vanished -- it's like the installer rebooted itself (damn) and now I'm stuck. I don't have my original 10.4.8 disk as I let a co-worker use it (like 2 months ago). Now my system is stuck in a never ending reboot because "?" (the boot help) page doesn't work for me on the boot screen. Is there a way to boot into single user mode? I've tried -s (most logical) but that didn't work. I just need to get to a command line on this box. What are the options possible? I need to get to a command line.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48574-fix-a-borked-1049-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtreme571 Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 have you tried booting with -v -s? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48574-fix-a-borked-1049-install/#findComment-348158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guice Posted April 17, 2007 Author Share Posted April 17, 2007 have you tried booting with -v -s? Nothing worked. However, I did manage to find an old burn that did boot but didn't properly finish install (thus bad) which I managed to boot off of. Then, I ran into so many other problems. ha. Trying to resolve each one of them one at a time was extremely painful. Main reason was this other boot disk didn't always boot properly (sometimes it would boot and I would have no keyboard) coupled by the fact it literally took 30 minutes to boot to the "Choose Language" page and another 10 minutes before you can even do anything on the next page. I tried using the Ubuntu LiveCD, but that can only mount HFS+ drives as Read-Only, which was no help to me. Anyway. Now it's stuck to a point of no recovery that I can find; I get so many errors scrolling by so fast (configd, diskarbitrationd and one other segfaulting and loginwindow.app segfaulting on something), none appear to be properly logged. With getting to a useable commandline being so painful, I just reverted back to my Windows boot drive so I can investigating fully, and still have a working PC. First thing is first, I need to figure out how to "boot" the OSX disk in VMWare. Then I can start debugging from there. I hear MacDrive will allow me to mount the HFS+ Disk with write access. I'll figure it out as I start playing with things. I won't bug the forum with redunant questions as I'm sure most of the answers are here with a simple search -- I plan on doing that once I pass my first two hurdles. Thanks again for the reply. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48574-fix-a-borked-1049-install/#findComment-348914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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