Jaguar Problems.

[ambush]

Hi, I installed Jaguar from my WWDC cd.
After the install , i rebbot the imac g3 600.
It boots, ( you see the status win with things like initing network and stuff ) then it disappears. You see the new "waiting " cursor for a while. then you see the old one.. then you see the mouse... then the mouse cursor fades and the it's the same thing till I get tired of seeing the same **** and I reboot in 9...
Now I cant reinstall 10.1 "because the installer cant install older vers. on top of newer vers..." Is there a script that deletes osx files on the hard drive ( non partitioned , os9.1 and osx.2 )?? If so I want it!

thanks

anyone had the same prob???

[phillryu]

I had the same problem on my iBook, and spent 4 hours recovering. Then I installed Jaguar again. It happened again. I recovered. Then I found this handy hint at macosxhints.com:

"I had this weird problem after a log-out in a tight situation. What happened afterwards (and after rebooting) was that I only got a blue screen that flashed every minute or so. After a lot of tests and verbose booting, I noticed that the loginwindow.app was systematically crashing. What happened was that its prefs had a wrong user in the "previous user" field. The fix was:

1. Boot in single-user mode (hold cmd-s while booting)

2. Mount your disk as writable (it's explained in the last lines of the booting log).

3. Open /Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist in vi or pico

4. In the part that says:

<key>lastUser</key>
<string>loggedOut</string>
change loggedOut to your user name (I'm not exactly sure that it's loggedOut, but it's something close to that, I didn't write it down).

5. Save the changes and quit the editor.

6. Type "shutdown -r now"
And voila, the cycling login window problem should now be gone!"


Oh well. If I only knew But at this point, I don't want to go through installing Jaguar yet again. I had my fun

By the way, if you still want to erase 10.2, you have to go into classic and delete the system folder, and all those OS X invisible files to let you install OS 10.1 again. Hope that helps.

phillryu@mac.com