On Jan 31, 10:24 pm, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote:

> When it begins to restart, hold the Cmd-v keys and see what the  
> verbose dialog says when it tries to boot from the DVD?
>
> The final line of the dialog, or a repeating line should give you a  
> clue as to what the problem is hopefully.

the final line reads: "checking disk: hanging up....<a bunch of
numbers>....Initializing startup."

After the desktop appears, the optical drive slows to a stop. Don't
know what that means, but I'm guessing that it's not what i want.
haha.

Anna

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