won't boot from the lion disk now...harumph...

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:46 AM, richardsan <[email protected]> wrote:

> not sure what started this, but after viewing a PDF attachment from some
> shipper[i did check online to see if it was a real company] the 2 page doc
> was blank on page 1 and had a ghostly "PDF" icon on page two...tried saving
> it and got the same view from preview.app.
> crinkly aluminium hat off/
> the latest security update 'forced' a reboot and the computer started up
> in the SL land, previously from lion. so after a couple days, that
> environment turned in to the sluggish, tired old thing that it is already
> and i wanted to get back to 10.6.x ...so i get to the cosmos splash screen,
> then a blank screen, then the outer space scene time and again...never
> getting to the desktop. so i did the single user check disk, did the pram
> reset...no solution. i've started dragging things off that partition to
> erase,  and came to a locked folder: system=>library=>user
> templates...unlock it and it contains the foreign languages templates...is
> this folder supposed to be locked to everyone except the system? i'm
> guessing it's something there at the first initiating startup for all
> users, and after selecting the language preferences this is locked up...?
> also there is, in the get info pallet, a user called "wheel"...with a few
> checks it only has read access to some folders...?
> i'm going to wipe this partition and re install lion on it.
> i wonder why SL "is not the OS i'm looking for"? memory goblin....
>
> machine is the 2.8 GHz. i7 27" iMac w/4gigs ram.
>
> --
> knowledge and wisdom come from knowing a ""republican conservative"" is an
> oxymoron.
>



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