startup

The title says it all. I need help, because when I start up my iMac (running 10.2.8) it goes to the screen with an apple and a spinning thing, but then stops and gives me a unix shell. I'm currently forced to use my (gasp) Dell laptop. Obviously, I want to get this fixed. Anyone know why this...

I have a script that I would like to run when the machine starts up. I would like to do this by adding the code inthe script instead of having to go to the Preferences Pane. Can somebody tell me if this is correct or not and how I can go about making sure it's set to startup upon login? I went...

I recently upgraded a dual G4 machine from 10.2.8 to 10.3.4. Attached to the machine I had a 330 GByte LaCie firewire drive part of which was shared via nfs and samba so other machines could access the data. I'd been using the machine as a data server in this way for over a year. Before...

Hello, I did an upgrade install of panther 10.3 the other day, from 10.2 Jaguar. Installation went without error. However, now every time I start up the computer, it shows a grey screen, with a messagebox in the middle, shown in 4 languages, saying that I need to restart the computer by...

Running Panther 10.3 on a G5 Classic wont start for me anymore, it almost loads completely and then freezes and then goes to the full system freeze (screen darkens and says you must restart you computer) I have reinstalled 10.3 and reinstalled classic I have tried deleting classic system...

Hello all. I just upgraded to Panther tonight from x.2. Everything went as planned and I was able to connect to my airport network and tweak some stuff. One of the things that I tweaked was enabling fast user switching. In the midst of doing that, I was downloading the software updates that I...

This is my first pass at the two files needed to get postgres to start at boot time. I'm just going to past them into here since they are pretty small. To use this, create a directory /Library/StartupItems/postmaster In that directory, put these two files. The postmaster file needs to be...

I'm running OS9.2.2 and OSX Every time i start up classic (wether its boot off the volume or just classic environment) It starts up fine, the control plugins load up and right after the OS 9.2.2 loading screen i get a fatel error: Error 127 I have tried restarting with extensions off...

I know where the apple startup logo is in the bootx file, however I do not know where the image data is for the thing that spins under the apple logo. If the quartz graphics drivers are loaded then it would probably be a tiff file like the trash animation however I am not sure if this is the...

After zapping the P-RAM om my Powerbook G4 DVI it wont start anymore. I just get the apple to show up in the begining, then nothing happends.. no loadingcircle, no nothing.. although, when i restart holding down ALT, I can choose system and then, its starts... I dont wanna do this all the...

I got a 800 G4 desktop, I was running 10.2.5 and it's running OK with Startup items, starting up Eudora, HotApp and Ittec, but after upgrading to 10.2.6, it doesn't work any more then 10.2.8 and now 10.3.2 still doesn't work. Any one knows how to get it back? Thanks.

Hey everyone, My Umax J700 is searching for it's startup disc. It's running OS 9.1. I have discs for 8.5, 9.1, X.1.3 and Jag. I used the 9.1 disc and tried holding down "c", "Apple c", "Option c"...I couldn't remember which is was. Anyway, nothing is happening. It keeps ignoring any...

Hi everyone, I have a bit of a strange problem at the moment. When I open up microsoft word, as the programme is loading, I get the little spinning colour wheel, then a dialogue box appears containing this: Microsoft word has unexpectadly quit. The system and other applications have not...

Don't Use iPod As A Startup Disk (Here's why) From Applelinks; Apple actually told why the iPod shouldn't be used as a startup disk way back when the first iPods came out: you'll fry the disk. The iPod micro-disk isn't designed to take the heavy-duty use that a startup disk gets, and will...

I haven't touched my iPod in a few days and when I turned it on, it came up from a completely cold boot....it showed the Apple logo for a few seconds and then came up to the main menu, not with the last song I had listened to. It has done this almost every time I have turned it on in the past...

Hi there I just got my 40gb iPod today, and amidst all the excitement I seem to have wrecked my main startup disk. I transferred my entire 18gb iTunes library to my iPod via firewire and the dock. All went ok. I left the iPod charging for about half an hour on the dock while I was away...

I have a beige G3 in the house which acts as a web server as well as an iTunes server serving music for the rest of the house. I noticed that there is less load on the server when no-one is actually logged in. Not having someone logged in is fine for the web server (apache still runs in the...

I had to reboot when Word wouldn't force quit and my startup chimes seem to have vanished. I've since run DiskWarrior, because Word and Safari both started hanging – everything seems OK but when I rebooted afterwards, still no chimes. I repaired permissions, then once again the document I was...

Has anyone been following up the post at apple.com regarding the startup time after installing 10.3.2? http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?14@113.8uJcaHJ9tw2.0@.599dfee8 There's a recent post of a fix and wondering if anyone has tried it and does this line in Terminal actually do any harm...

I helped my Dad purchase and setup his new Dual 1.8 G5. I decided to run it through the loops and make sure that everything was working as it was suppose to. Everything seemed to be working fine until I noticed that I couldn't use the "Option" key to get to the boot screen where I could choose...