RE: [info-tech] Apple Weirdness
I might recommend re-imaging the eMac again. If the machine is stuck booting into verbose or single user mode, put this into Terminal and hit [enter]: sudo nvram boot-args= You'll need to put in an Administrator password on the machine, but then it should boot normally. Not sure what would have gotten it there in the first place, but hope that helps. Brendan Brendan Porter Network Engineer Microsoft Certified Professional VMware Certified Professional R&D Industries 810 12th St Milford, IA e: bpor...@rdi1.com p: (712) 338-2999 x231 -Original Message- From: Lance Lennon [mailto:llen...@eagle-grove.k12.ia.us] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 1:19 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] Apple Weirdness Okay apple gurus and not so gurus. Here is a fun little situation I got myself into (not bad, not good, just different). I was using my deploy studio to re-image a machine. I chose the wrong image (Intel iMac on a PPC eMac). NOw when I boot the machine it looks like it is going into single user mode (command line). Not a bad thing, just different. Then I get a plain blue screen, then my log in. The system works fine (both under the intel image and the correct PPC image) it just boots and shutdowns in command line. ANyone ever done this before and know of a way to make it act "normal" again. I do not care, but I know the teacher is going to freak the first time they see the command line stuff and I would rather not deal with that. Thanks in advance. -- "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." ~ Dennis Ritchie -- Lance L. Lennon District Technology Director Eagle Grove Community School District 515-448-4749 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ - --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
Re: [info-tech] Apple Weirdness
Is it the "Verbose" boot mode? http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1253535 Try zapping the PRAM and see if that might turn it off. Karl H. Hehr Technology/Curriculum Director South Hamilton CSD www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 515.827.5418 (W) 515.209.9767 (C) 515.827.5368 (F) Luddite by Degrees 1) Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2) Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3) Anything invented after you're 35 is again the natural order of things --- Douglas Adams On Apr 1, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Lance Lennon wrote: Okay apple gurus and not so gurus. Here is a fun little situation I got myself into (not bad, not good, just different). I was using my deploy studio to re-image a machine. I chose the wrong image (Intel iMac on a PPC eMac). NOw when I boot the machine it looks like it is going into single user mode (command line). Not a bad thing, just different. Then I get a plain blue screen, then my log in. The system works fine (both under the intel image and the correct PPC image) it just boots and shutdowns in command line. ANyone ever done this before and know of a way to make it act "normal" again. I do not care, but I know the teacher is going to freak the first time they see the command line stuff and I would rather not deal with that. Thanks in advance. -- "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." ~ Dennis Ritchie -- Lance L. Lennon District Technology Director Eagle Grove Community School District 515-448-4749 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ - --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
[info-tech] Apple Weirdness
Okay apple gurus and not so gurus. Here is a fun little situation I got myself into (not bad, not good, just different). I was using my deploy studio to re-image a machine. I chose the wrong image (Intel iMac on a PPC eMac). NOw when I boot the machine it looks like it is going into single user mode (command line). Not a bad thing, just different. Then I get a plain blue screen, then my log in. The system works fine (both under the intel image and the correct PPC image) it just boots and shutdowns in command line. ANyone ever done this before and know of a way to make it act "normal" again. I do not care, but I know the teacher is going to freak the first time they see the command line stuff and I would rather not deal with that. Thanks in advance. -- "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." ~ Dennis Ritchie -- Lance L. Lennon District Technology Director Eagle Grove Community School District 515-448-4749 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
