You can get to the log folder on a Mac OS system drive by using Finder's "Go" command.
Type in "/Volumes/<Name of drive>/private/var/log" and it will open the log folder, where you can then open the system log file in TextEdit. Chance On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 12:30 PM, John Martz <[email protected]> wrote: > Last night I booted my friends 800 MHz eMac in target disk mode, > connected it to my MacBook, and used Carbon Copy Cloner to backup her > hard drive to an external drive. This went OK albeit EXTREMELY slowly. > (Time elapsed: 01:52:45. Data copied: 8.43 GB i.e. ~1.25 MB/s (~1.19 MiB/s) > ???) > > When I then attached the external drive to the eMac and attempted to > boot from the clone of her eMac hard drive, the boot seemed to proceed > well enough. But ultimately it hung with the message "Login Window > Starting" displayed underneath a "not quite there yet" progress bar. > > I'd like to look at the system log, but I don't know how to navigate > to it and display it. All the tips on viewing the OS X log files that > Google turns up for me seems to assume that the log files are on the > partition you booted OS X from. In this the log files I need to open > are on a partition on an external drive, not on my MacBook. > > I believe the files are in /private/var/log but Finder does not > display those folders. Any suggestions? > > -irrational john > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
