> On Jan 5, 2015, at 4:25 AM, William Spencer wrote:
>
> Hi there: My parents bought themselves a Mac Mini for CHristmas, to replace
> their late-2006 iMac (just like mine—see below). When I went up to visit them
> last week to help get it set up, it turned out that the Migration Assistant
> process somehow froze up well before completion, and I had to force the Mini
> to shut off by holding the power button in for several seconds. What do I/we
> do next? Is there a way to reset the Mini so we can start the migration anew?
> In short, ¿que pasa?
My immediate impulse would be to just restart the Mini and see what happens. It
may just resume. The question is which side of the migration caused the
freeze...
If you hold down the option key when starting the mini, you should have the
option of booting from the recovery partition. Then you can run disk Utility to
see if the Mini's disk is ok. Also, if the backup or iMac is still connected
they can check those as well.
Were they doing the migration from a backup or directly from the iMac? (You can
connect the two computers with an ethernet cable for a network-based migration
directly from the iMac, or firewire-to-thunderbolt via a fw cable and adapter,
but an ethernet cable's a lot cheaper :-)
Worst case scenario, if the mini can boot from the recovery partition, they can
erase the regular volume with disk utility, and re-install OSX and try again.
--
Bruce Johnson
"Wherever you go, there you are." B. Banzai, PhD
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