Hi Allen, I can't tell you that you did anything wrong. But casual observation of your reported occasional glitches makes me wonder if something is just not quite right. And maybe things are OK but it's apparent that some things just don't want to cooperate the way they should.
When you boot into single user mode, do whatever, and then exit - the stream of unix gibberish should have continued for a brief time until you come to the initial OS X splash screen with the blue Apple. If the "exit" command throws your Mac out of whack, don't use it. Ward On 11/15/02 1:20 PM, "Allan Atherton" <aatherton at insightbb.com> wrote: > Ward Oldham <woldham at insightbb.com> wrote: > "...Once you're finished, just type "exit" (without the quotes) and proceed > forward...>> > > After running fsch -y I have always just typed reboot, and the computer > boots into OSX. I tried typing exit as suggested, and got into trouble: > > After running fsck -y, I typed exit. To my horror the white-on-black screen > began to scroll more lines of Unix activity. I felt like was on a runaway > train. And then the screen went gray. The mouse or keyboard had no effect on > the screen, so I turned the computer off. I rebooted with Cmd-S and ran fsck > -y, as I always do after such a shutdown. The screen said problems had been > found and the file system had been modified (fixed). So I ran fsck -y again > until it said OK (no more modifications). > > Not wanting to use exit again, I used reboot and went into OSX as usual. > > What does exit do, and what did I do wrong? > > Allan Atherton > > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
