A number of things are happening as follows:
1) When I boot up in single user mode I get a long string of dialog telling me that "Specific family matching failed". Can someone explain to me what this means? It may be related to a new Maxtor external HD that I have just installed but I am not sure (the drive seems to work O.K. though).
2.) When I boot up and watch the progress bar in the blue screen progress halts for about 4 minutes while "Waiting for local disks". What does this mean? Is this related to the "family matching" problem or what?
3) When I turn on Norton AutoProtect my whole screen goes grey and I get the message (in 4 languages) that "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button or press the restart button."
Other than this my apps seem to run O.K. when I finally get to the finder window.
I have run DiskWarrior 3 but the above anomalies/problems all persist.
Does anyone have an idea what this is all about, and what I can do about it. I would especially like to turn on AutoProtect since I had an unfortunate run in with a virus recently (though this was cleared up so I doubt it is the source of the problem).
Thanks
(I am running OS 10.2.6 on a slot-loading iMac (350 MHz).)
1) When I boot up in single user mode I get a long string of dialog telling me that "Specific family matching failed". Can someone explain to me what this means? It may be related to a new Maxtor external HD that I have just installed but I am not sure (the drive seems to work O.K. though).
2.) When I boot up and watch the progress bar in the blue screen progress halts for about 4 minutes while "Waiting for local disks". What does this mean? Is this related to the "family matching" problem or what?
3) When I turn on Norton AutoProtect my whole screen goes grey and I get the message (in 4 languages) that "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button or press the restart button."
Other than this my apps seem to run O.K. when I finally get to the finder window.
I have run DiskWarrior 3 but the above anomalies/problems all persist.
Does anyone have an idea what this is all about, and what I can do about it. I would especially like to turn on AutoProtect since I had an unfortunate run in with a virus recently (though this was cleared up so I doubt it is the source of the problem).
Thanks
(I am running OS 10.2.6 on a slot-loading iMac (350 MHz).)