I have no idea if this will help and it's an abstract concept that helped me with a different problem I had a few days ago. I was trying to demonstrate how XPostFacto worked. This was after I had a perfectly healthy 10.2 system installed. To make a long story short, I booted up in 9 and ran XPostFacto and immediately saw it writing a bunch of files to my newly created and just fine system.
What was weird was that when I went to boot back in X, I no longer had the new Apple logo, but had the old Mac face from the old X. When the spinning blocks started, they were messed up too. Everything eventually booted up fine, but I was quite annoyed that I no longer had the real NEW Apple logo for my X startup. I decided to go back and reboot my Jag install disk using XPostFacto. When the installer came up I choose to do a very custom UPGRADE install of only the base system files. It had the option of upgrade because it detected my newly installed X. I wasn't really upgrading, but basically my theory was that if it just over wrote those files and left everything else alone, then I might get my new Apple startup icon back. Well, it worked and it took quite a long time to do the update. If you are way stuck, perhaps you can do this trick to get your X back to booting like it was before. Do an update of your system, a custom install of only the base system software, and update it with the same OS as you've been running. Who knows. Please let me know if this is a crazy idea, way dangerous or whatever. My theory is that since you've installed new drivers and they are not working, that may be the only way to overwrite then and get it back to where it was before when it was working. Thinking outside the X. Larry >Ok I am running the latest version of 10.1 (10.5.whatever) with software >update ran daily.. I installed the radeon drivers and then booted up to >a black screen... It sounds like the machine is booting in the back >ground. I did a apple ctrl P R and I think the machine is now booting >to OS9.1 but I still have a blank screen. I did put the old video card >back in at the same time that is the only way to see what the machine is >doing.. Should I take out the old video card? I let the machine run >for about 20 min and it didn't boot up originally.. any ideas? -- -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
