Not sure of your question. When you say "won't boot" are you talking about a system that is turned off, and now you are turning it on? One that is asleep and you are waking it? One where one user is logged in, you are trying to switch to a different user? Or one that is running, and you chose File Menu Restart?
If it is the later, I can say that since at least system 10.4.2 or so through system 10.6.2, on a variety of laptops and desktops, I very seldom get a clean system restart via menu selection. If I load system upgrades/patches that require a restart, managed by the patch software, they likewise do not restart produce a restart. Blue screen with spinning wheel. Since that is the one and only issue I can remember having with Mac system software, I just use the power button to do a hard startup, mutter a bit, and forget it until next time. I have never seen any indication that there is any hardware, software, or file corruption issues stemming from the use of the hard startup. stan On Feb 4, 2010, at 11:19 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Here at the college we have both Mac and Windows systems. The Mac in my > office won't ever boot for me on the first try. It always locks up just > before the Dock should appear and has to be re-booted via the front panel > power switch. Second try always works. Any suggestions? > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
