Cutwolf Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Just installed Leopard. Went through the entire install process. However, when I try to restart into Leopard, it does nothing. It shows the Apple logo, the little loading swirly, then goes to a blue screen and just sits there. I can move the mouse, make the mouse dance around, make the mouse do whatever...but it just stays there, no matter how long I wait. There have been other threads about this but no help. People instead chose to debate whether it was proper to call it the blue screen of death or not, which was completely frustrating since people are really looking for answers about this. So lets ignore the color of the screen and what we call it:How do I fix this or at least what can I try? Anything would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Oh, FWIW, I'm on a Macbook pro 2.4 ghz intel core 2 duo 2 gb ram 120 gb hard drive 8600M 256 mb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AceBR Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 I have the same problem using the final release. Any ideas? Macbook 2.16Ghz 2GB 160GB upgrading from 10.4.10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveLydiatt Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Same here in upgrade from 10.4.10 20" iMac, Intel Core 2 Duo 2GB RAM, blah blah blah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocksJa Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 I'm gonna just throw out a guess here, but did you guys burn a copy, or buy it, if burned maybe something went wrong, and didn't install 100%? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveLydiatt Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Same here in upgrade from 10.4.10 20" iMac, Intel Core 2 Duo 2GB RAM, blah blah blah. Found the answer here... Seems to be an APE issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSin Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 I had this issue on my iBook G4. After what appeared to be an successful install (upgrade), upon re-boot, got blue screen with black cursor. Read some tips on Apple Discussions http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?t...31&tstart=0 to try Archive and Install with "Preserve user and network settings" option checked, and she finally came up. You can also see Apple's Support on this here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306857 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onetrack Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 1. Reboot into single-user mode (hold Cmd-S while booting machine) 2. Follow the directions OSX gives you when you get to the prompt (I think these were them - just type the two commands it tells you to): fsck -fy / /sbin/mount -uw / 3. Remove the following files: rm -rf /Library/Preference Panes/Application Enhancer.prefpane rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Application Enhancer.framework rm -rf /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Application Enhancer.bundle rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.unsanity.ape.plist 4. Exit, to continue booting normally exit Alternatively - you can do an archive & install - simply hold c down to boot from the dvd - follow the prompts. It will leave your system fully intact - then just boot from the dvd again to change the root password from the utilities menu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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