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SteveinSpain
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Hello to all:
I've got a problem. I've just done an upgrade to Tiger from Panther (10.3.x) and now my MAC won't boot. All I get is the international "NO!" symbol in the centre of my screen (the circle with the diagonal bar).
This MAC was fully functional and absolutely stable before I did the upgrade. I used the install DVD straight out of the box. The installation went perfectly smoothly and at the end it restarted itself. Then on restart the familiar Apple logo came up with the spinning deal below (NOT the beachball of death), after about a minute the logo changed to above mentioned "NO!" symbol and the spinner kept spinning until I did a safe shutdown.
This has repeated after each restart.
I booted off of the install DVD and tried Disk Utilities, ran a Repair Disk and it found no problems. On restart, same problem.
I called a buddy who suggested I "Repair Permissions".
Anybody know what the "NO!" symbol signifies? Anybody have any suggestions before I spend my whole Sunday erasing, reloading and reinstalling a ton of Applications?
BTW. As I am the only user of the machine, and I trust my staff, I do not use any passwords, multiuser logins or administration security, as I find them a nuisance.
Save my Sunday snooze time, please!
Steve
I've got a problem. I've just done an upgrade to Tiger from Panther (10.3.x) and now my MAC won't boot. All I get is the international "NO!" symbol in the centre of my screen (the circle with the diagonal bar).
This MAC was fully functional and absolutely stable before I did the upgrade. I used the install DVD straight out of the box. The installation went perfectly smoothly and at the end it restarted itself. Then on restart the familiar Apple logo came up with the spinning deal below (NOT the beachball of death), after about a minute the logo changed to above mentioned "NO!" symbol and the spinner kept spinning until I did a safe shutdown.
This has repeated after each restart.
I booted off of the install DVD and tried Disk Utilities, ran a Repair Disk and it found no problems. On restart, same problem.
I called a buddy who suggested I "Repair Permissions".
Anybody know what the "NO!" symbol signifies? Anybody have any suggestions before I spend my whole Sunday erasing, reloading and reinstalling a ton of Applications?
BTW. As I am the only user of the machine, and I trust my staff, I do not use any passwords, multiuser logins or administration security, as I find them a nuisance.
Save my Sunday snooze time, please!
Steve