On Feb 25, 2013, at 8:03 PM, ben kernan wrote: > This evening I was trying to setup a new folder for Escape Velocity Nova on > my external hd & noticed that I had the option of booting from the partition > which contains the CCC backup for my wife's laptop, which contains 10.7... > Since my 24"iMac has 10.5.8, I thought this would be an easy way to be able > to use Lion without paying it upgrade. So I restarted from the external... > things seemed to be going well, got to the apple screen, then grey screen > with a lot of garbage on it with a message telling me to restart in 4 > different languages. After trying to restart 3 times with the same result, I > am at a loss as to how to get back to 10.5 0n the internal drive. any > thoughts on this perplexing & possibly dumb action on my part. > iMac is 10.5.8, 2.4 cd2, 750gb internal 2tb external 4gb ram. > > Sent from my iPad First thing to do on the iMac with a kernel panic for me is to reseat the RAM . Also reset SMU see if you can boot from the optical drive.
John Carmonne Yorba Linda CA 92886 USA MacBook Pro i7 -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
