Last night I installed two updates, one was a security update, the other iTunes. After which, the computer rebooted just fine into OS X.

Today I tried to boot into OS X and it gets to a point between the apple screen and before it shows you the login prompt, and keeps looping where it shows that little round icon that animates and a bright blue screen. It never gets to the login prompt. I've tried resetting my password, resetting ACL's. Nothing fixed it. Looks like I gotta re-install leopard.

My question to you guys: Have any of you guys re-installed leopard while keeping your Windows partition intact? I don't want to have to reinstall XP again. I've heard it works, just want to see if any of you have done it because I don't know if the windows partition will show up in the boot camp utility in OS X after I reinstall.

 

I've never tried it but it should.

Try holding alt on start up, and selecting the OSX partician, maybe something got messed up with your permissions during the update.

 

if that doesn't work, with the osx cd boot into disk utility and try repairing your permissions.

 

Thanks for the tip, but I already tried that, didn't do anything.

 

you try the previous one?

 

my dad had a similar problem this weekend. His macbook wouldn't boot after installing an update. It bonged and then got to the grey apple logo and spinning circle and then it just sat there for a minute and then the screen went black and it turned off. He took it to the Apple store and they did something and it's supposedly fixed at least temporarily they say. he couldn't explain to me very well what they did but it works. He also showed me some iTunes icons today that were all corrupt looking but after a restart they were fine but he's kinda freaked out now. I told him it was just a graphical glitch and not much to worry about but IDK these may be signs of a bigger problem.

 

Hitting alt and booting into OS X instead of XP? Yup, tried that multiple times. Let it run for quite a while thinking that it was updating something, but never stopped looping. Booted to a command prompt and checked out some of the system logs and there are some crash reports that are generated but I can't make sense of any of them since I don't have a familiarity with OS X at the system level even though it's similar to linux.

 

Anyways the Windows partition is a separate GPT partition so when you insert the install disc it should see it as NTFS and that you can't install OS X on it. I think.

 

From everything I've seen on the interwebs, when you install OS X it'll ask you which partition you want to install it to at which time I can just format the current partition for OS X and then do a clean install.

I'll just backup all my data to be safe.

I'm just pissed because I don't have time for this shit to be happening now. Between working 50+ hrs/wk, getting my MBA and teaching I'm already stressed enough as it is.

 

new mackbooks ftw

 

your fucking useless

 

hahaha

 

are you running time machine? you could do a restore from that? Only thing I don't like about that is that you can't do a from the most recent one. For example, the first Time Machine backup is a Full backup but then the ones that are done every hour are just the changes from the previous hours. You can't do a full system restore to what your drive was like an hour ago you have to go back to the most recent full backup.

 

Um, my MBP is less than a year old and is a desktop replacement. I usually use it on it's own, but the rest of the time it's paired to a 30" Dell LCD with a 6' x 8' wacom intuos3 tablet. I don't need a "new" macbook to do all that.

 

Nope, no time machine, I let is300 borrow my flux capacitor.