OSX hangs during boot or install

Hello all,
I'm writing this because I'm not really sure where else to post this at to get an indepth answer. Currently I have a dual G4 450mhz AGP PowerMac that I bought used. When I purchased it, it had 768mb of ram and the only thing it didn't have was a working hard drive. After putting in a new hard drive the system worked great when i intially installed OS9 and later OSX for fun.
However I had to remove the 768mb of RAM because a client PC needed it and that took priority over my dual G4 at the time. Just the other week I purchased 2 x 256mb of RAM from Omni Technologies (omnitechnologies.biz) which guarantees working ram for specified Apple systems.
Upon receiving that ram and installing it, I powered on the G4 only to find it would "hang" when booting OSX (10.3.9). The symptoms are as follows: When powering on I hear the normal chime and the white screen with gray apple logo appears. Seconds later the spinning progress indicator shows up spinning in circles as OSX is booting. However after about 5 minutes with no DVD/hdd activitity, the system then hangs. The gray apple logo changes to a gray 'prohibited' logo. It's the logo of the circle with the slash through it. Like the kind you see over no-smoking signs.
I figured the hard drive was messed up and I decided to reinstall OSX cleanly. However when I booted from the CD by pressing 'c', the EXACT SAME symptoms above happened. It was at this point I started getting really worried. So I decided to remove the hard drive temporarily and boot from the CD just to make sure it really was booting from the CD. Unfortunately the exact same symptoms happened.
Out of desperation to make sure that my hardware was OK, I decided to install OS 9.2.1 which installed and WORKED perfectly. I also installed UbuntuPPC and Slackintosh versions of linux which also installed and worked perfectly.
The issue appears to reside with OSX. I've borrowed friends cd's of 10.2-10.3 and all of them will NOT install. They start to boot from the CD, but never even make it to the first window.
Help!!
Brad

Actually trying one stick in each individual slot was one of the first things I did. Unfortunately that did not provide a resolution for me.
Thanks for the links regarding the broken folder/prohibitory sign. I read those and they made mention of resetting the nvram and pram. I just did that a bit earlier today but logging into the open firmware by pressing Option-Command-F-O and typing: reset-nvram; set-defaults; reset-all.
Upon the reboot and after I plugged the hdd with OSX on it back into the system, the resolution was a bit off as I figured. But this time there was no progress indicator. Instead only the gray apple logo showed and there was no response from the hdd or cdrom drive.
I also noticed that the USB mouses red light went out within the first 45 seconds of booting. I swapped out keyboards and mice and the new ones did the same thing as well. I also tested the memory in an imac I have and OSX that is installed ont heimac works gerat with that stick of memory. I'm leaning towards the fact that the memory I have is fine, being that it was ordered from a company that specifically guaranteed it to work on macs of all kinds.
Any other thoughts or ideas?

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Main Memory
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You can try nomodeset. Seems to be a failure in loading a driver for your hardware. To read more on similar issues, there's a few posts with more info and suggestions by googling it.
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Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.036766] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table at offset 0x85F3
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.129046] adt7475 1-002e: ADT7473 device, revision 1
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I have been trying to isolate the problem a little further. I re-installed (with just the base and sudo) and after upgrading pacman rebooted and it worked without fail. Then I installed libusb and libusb-compat which where required when I tried to upgrade just the kernel using
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ul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 5.120698] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Pointer to BIT loadval table invalid
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 5.360508] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: failed to load fuc409d
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 5.808016] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 5.809960] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 5.812116] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jul 26 16:28:35 O313 udevd[369]: error: runtime directory '/run/udev' not writable, for now falling back to '/dev/.udev'
The end of kernel.log is as follows:
Sat Jul 9 14:57:41 CEST 2011
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] Command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/e4733c60-3e54-4001-a83e-415b690dfcb0 ro
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000cfed0000 (usable)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000cfed0000 - 00000000cfed1000 (ACPI NVS)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000cfed1000 - 00000000cfee0000 (ACPI data)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000cfee0000 - 00000000cff00000 (reserved)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4000000 (reserved)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000630000000 (usable)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] DMI 2.4 present.
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] DMI: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X58A-UD5/X58A-UD5, BIOS FD 02/01/2011
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] e820 update range: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (usable) ==> (reserved)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] e820 remove range: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 (usable)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] last_pfn = 0x630000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
And this is the end of daemon.log
Jul 26 16:27:49 O313 init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Jul 26 16:27:50 O313 dhcpcd: received SIGTERM, stopping
Jul 26 16:27:50 O313 dhcpcd: eth0: removing interface
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 2.352592] udevd[87]: starting version 171
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 4.531007] udevd[370]: starting version 171
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 dhcpcd: version 5.2.2 starting
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 dhcpcd: eth0: waiting for carrier
Jul 26 16:28:35 O313 udevd[369]: error: runtime directory '/run/udev' not writable, for now falling back to '/dev/.udev'
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 init: Entering runlevel: 3
Please let me know if any further information would be useful in tracking down this problem. Also ignore any timings in my initial post they were incorrect.
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My ~3 year old Mac Mini keeps freezing during booting with the error message "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button...". This happens every time. Booting in safe mode works.
This happened with Mac OS X Tiger but keeps happening even after I have completely reformatted that hard disk and reinstalled Leopard from scratch. There are no external devices connected to the computer besides the monitor and a bluetooth mouse and keyboard.
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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
What you are suffering is a Kernel Panic, and given you have reformatted your drive and reinstalled MacOS, it would tend to suggest the issue is hardware related - most common culprit being RAM.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227 explains what kernel panics are, and http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html and http://www.index-site.com/kernelpanic.html may give some assistance in working through the problem to determine the cause.
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#10 logical WIN data , now large enough, still empty
#N logical several ext3 partitions
First I installed WS2008R2, installed role Hyper-V, applied all updates. Everything looks fine there.
Then I installed WS2012, system came up fine. Then the trouble started: first installed role Hyper-V, after several reboots during role installation the box is hanging with busy HDD LED. Not sure if there is actually disk activity. It booted up to the turquoise
squares which are initially shown. But those white spinning points are not shown. After one hour I did a hard reset, installed WS2012 again and applied all available updates before attempting to install the role Hyper-V. But unfortunately same result.
Then I figured this bug might be fixed with WS2012R2. So same procedure, install WS2012R2, apply all available updates, system comes up fine. Install role Hyper-V, several automatic reboots during role installation. Result: same hang with busy HDD LED.
I'm not familier with the Windows boot details.
So my question is: What debug data can I provide so that someone familiar with the boot sequence of a Windows host can see how far it got? Are there any logfiles written, and hopefully flushed to disk, to see how far in booting it got? I remember in the
startup properties there are knobs for serial ports. I will enabled them from the WS2008 partition, maybe some useful progress log is written to the serial port.
Over night I will let it run, maybe WS2012R2 recovers after a few hours.
Thanks for any help with tracking this windows bug down.
Olaf

Here is the actual, new partition layout which I still had in another window:
root@optiplex:~ # parted /dev/sda unit s print
Model: ATA WDC WD15EADS-00P (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 2930277168s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 2048s 2097151s 2095104s primary ext3 type=83
2 2097152s 4194303s 2097152s primary ntfs boot, type=07
3 4194304s 20971519s 16777216s primary linux-swap(v1) type=82
4 20971520s 2930276351s 2909304832s extended lba, type=0f
5 20973568s 73402367s 52428800s logical ntfs type=07
6 73404416s 125833215s 52428800s logical ntfs type=07
7 125835264s 178264063s 52428800s logical ntfs type=07
8 899624960s 1048561663s 148936704s logical ext3 type=83
9 1048576000s 1258289151s 209713152s logical ext3 type=83
10 1258291200s 1853884415s 595593216s logical ext3 type=83
11 1853886464s 2930276351s 1076389888s logical ext3 type=83
root@optiplex:~ # parted /dev/sda unit GiB print
Model: ATA WDC WD15EADS-00P (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1397GiB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 0,00GiB 1,00GiB 1,00GiB primary ext3 type=83
2 1,00GiB 2,00GiB 1,00GiB primary ntfs boot, type=07
3 2,00GiB 10,0GiB 8,00GiB primary linux-swap(v1) type=82
4 10,0GiB 1397GiB 1387GiB extended lba, type=0f
5 10,0GiB 35,0GiB 25,0GiB logical ntfs type=07
6 35,0GiB 60,0GiB 25,0GiB logical ntfs type=07
7 60,0GiB 85,0GiB 25,0GiB logical ntfs type=07
8 429GiB 500GiB 71,0GiB logical ext3 type=83
9 500GiB 600GiB 100GiB logical ext3 type=83
10 600GiB 884GiB 284GiB logical ext3 type=83
11 884GiB 1397GiB 513GiB logical ext3 type=83

My imac hangs during starup after installing update

I installed the new update for OSX lion this morning and after installation the mac rebooted and it hangs on the gray apple screen.

The system was working fine before the update.
I got severals errors with the restore disk permissions the first time I ran it. The second time it didn't return any errors. The disk utility din't return any errros.
After booting in safe mode and hhaving the system hang again I ran the repair disk permission utility again and keep getting the same errors that are being repaired even after running it 5 times is a row.
The Imac is 3 months old and came with Snow Lzapord installed whitch I upgraded to Lion after startup thru the up-to-date program Apple offered.
Thanks for all the help seeing this is my first Mac

Screen hangs while booting from Install disk

I'm trying to install 10.3.1 using my original disks onto an iBook G4 I bought from eBay that has 10.3.9 on it. The iBook works fine, but I don't have the administrator password and the seller has long along stopped answering my emails. I'm installing 10.3.1 simply to do a clean install and reset the admin passwords.
However, when I startup and press 'C' and insert the disk, the computer hangs on the initial Gray screen with the Apple. There's no whirling dial. It's just a frozen screen. In fact, the apple looks off center and I can see a thin strip of multi-color pixels. It doesn't do that when it boots up from the hard drive.
Any ideas about what's wrong?
iBook G4

Hi Kaushik!
If the Panther install CDs, look like THESE, they should work.
But, if you used those same CDs, to install Panther on another Mac, that is still using that OS, it is against the Software Liscense Agreement, to install it on the iBook.
"2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single computer at a time...."
ali b

Solaris 10 hang during boot

Don't know if this is a right place, if it's not, please direct me, thanks!
I had a SPARC Ultra 10 machine running under Solaris 10, it was
running for couple months. Recently when I reboot it, it was hang at
"Use is subject to license terms."
I press STOP+A to bring me to ok prompt, then type boot -v, the
following is the output:
ok boot -v
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0 File and args: -v
The boot filesystem is logging.
The ufs log is empty and will not be used.
Size: 0x704c8+0x1b8d2+0x2e1ba Bytes
module /platform/sun4u/kernel/sparcv9/unix: text at [0x1000000,
0x10704c7] data at 0x1800000
module misc/sparcv9/krtld: text at [0x10704c8, 0x10889e7] data at
0x1849a90
module /platform/sun4u/kernel/sparcv9/genunix: text at
[0x10889e8,0x11cd177] data at 0x184ee80
module /platform/SUNW,Ultra-1_10/kernel/misc/sparcv9/platmod: text at
[0x11cd178,0x11cd20f] data at 0x189ffc8
module /platform/sun4u/kernel/cpu/sparcv9/SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi: text at
[0x11cd240, 0x11d92af] data at 0x18a0700
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Ethernet address = 8:0:20:fd:88:8e
mem = 524288K (0x20000000)
avail mem = 515342336
root nexus = Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz)
pseudo0 at root
pseudo0 is /pseudo
scsi_vhci0 at root
scsi_vhci0 is /scsi_vhci
pcipsy0 at root: UPA 0x1f 0x0
pcipsy0 is /pci@1f,0
PCI-device: pci@1,1, simba0
simba0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1
It hung *******************
ok boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@2,0:f File and args:
Loading ufs-file-system package 1.4 04 Aug 1995 13:02:54.
FCode UFS Reader 1.12 00/07/17 15:48:16.
Redirected to slice: 1
Loading: /platform/SUNW,Ultra-5_10/ufsboot
Loading: /platform/sun4u/ufsboot
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
| ***** hung in here again.
Any suggestions!
Peter

Hi Michael,
Thank you for your email.
I did as what you suggested and still couldn't boot it up. Here are output:
ok printenv
Variable Name                    Value               Default Value
tpe-link-test?                    true               true
scsi-initiator-id               7               7
keyboard-click?                    false               false
keymap
ttyb-rts-dtr-off               false               false
ttyb-ignore-cd                    true               true
ttya-rts-dtr-off               false               false
ttya-ignore-cd                    true               true
ttyb-mode                    9600,8,n,1,-          9600,8,n,1,-
ttya-mode                    9600,8,n,1,-          9600,8,n,1,-
pcia-probe-list                    1,2,3,4               1,2,3,4
pcib-probe-list                    1,2,3               1,2,3
mfg-mode                    off               off
diag-level                    max               max
#power-cycles                    260
system-board-serial#
system-board-date
fcode-debug?                    false               false
output-device                    screen               screen
input-device                    keyboard          keyboard
load-base                    16384               16384
boot-command                    boot               boot
auto-boot?                    false               false
watchdog-reboot?               false               false
diag-file
diag-device                    net               net
boot-file
boot-device                    disk net          disk net
local-mac-address?               false               false
ansi-terminal?                    true               true
screen-#columns                    80               80
screen-#rows                    34               34
silent-mode?                    false               false
use-nvramrc?                    false               false
nvramrc
security-mode                    none
security-password
security-#badlogins               0
oem-logo
oem-logo?                    false               false
oem-banner
oem-banner?                    false               false
hardware-revision
last-hardware-update
diag-switch?                    true               false
ok
ok probe-scsi-all
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@1
ok
ok probe-ide
Device 0 ( Primary Master )
ATA Model: ST340016A
Device 1 ( Primary Slave )
Not Present
Device 2 ( Secondary Master )
Removable ATAPI Model: CRD-8483B
Device 3 ( Secondary Slave )
Not Present
ok
ok test-all
Testing /SUNW,ffb@1e,0
Testing /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@1
No targets found
Selftest failed. Return code = -1
Testing /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/SUNW,m64B@2
Display not installed
Test hardware registers - passed Ok
Test RamDAC - passed Ok
Test Frame buffer - passed Ok
Testing /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@1,1
Hme register test --- succeeded.
Internal loopback test -- succeeded.
Transceiver check -- Using Onboard Transceiver - Timeout waiting for AutoNegotiation Status to be updated.
Timeout reading Link status. Check cable and try again.
Timeout waiting for AutoNegotiation Status to be updated.
Timeout reading LInk status. Check cable and try again.
AutoNegotiation Timeout.
Check Cable or Contact your System Administrator.
Link Down.
failed.
Selftest failed. Return code = -1
Testing /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1fdthree@14,3023f0
Testing floppy disk system. A formatted disk should be in the drive.
Recalibrate failed. The floppy drive is either missing, improperly connected, or defective.
Selftest failed. Return code = -1
ok
ok boot cdrom -sv
Boot device:/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@2,0:f File and args: -sv
Size: 0x7a768+0x1c319+0x30443 Bytes
module /platform/sun4u/kernel/sparcv9/unix: text at [0x1000000,0x107a767] data at 0x1800000
module misc/sparcv9/krtld: text at [0x107a768,0x10933af] data at 0x184c760
module /platform/sun4u/kernel/sparcv9/genunix: text at [0x10933b0,0x11f0f17] data at 0x1852000
module /platform/SUNW,Ultra-5_10/kernel/misc/sparcv9/platmod: text at [0x11f0f18,0x11f0faf] data at 0x18a4558
module /platform/sun4u/kernel/cpu/sparcv9/SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi: text at [0x11f0fc0,0x11fd1c7] data at 0x18a4c80
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118833-33 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Ethernet address = 8:0:20:fd:88:8e
Using default device instance data
mem = 524288k (0x20000000)
avail mem = 5144596864
root nexus = Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz)
pseudo0 at root
pseudo0 is /pseudo
scsi_vhci0 at root
scsi_vhci0 is /scsi_vhci
pcipsy0 at root: UPA 0x1f 0x0
pcipsy0 is /pci@1f,0
PCI-device:pci@1,1, simba0
simba0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1
********stucked
The strange thing is that I replaced a hard disk yesterday and at one time I was able to boot it to single user mode, but when I tried to install OS on the new disk, it stopped at the place where I described as above again.
I have no totally no clues where the problem might be.
Appreciate your helps.
Peter

Plymouth causes tty1 to tty6 to hang during boot

Hello,
During the boot process of my Arch installation the screen is halted at terminal login and password, where I previously had configured Arch to automatically start X. Now, I've also noticed that tty2 to tty6 are not available in the beginning and then every 10 seconds one extra comes available. The cause, has something to do with Plymouth.
I installed Plymmouth, but failed to get it running. Then I inunstalled, removed the hooks from /etc/
mkinitcpio.conf. Also rebuilt initrd image, but somehow Plymouth still tries to start. I've added a bootlog in which the problem is very clearly reported (from line 163 or so). (I'm not sure how to post, so I just post the link to pastebin)
How can I solve this problem?
http://pastebin.com/FR6AW7Ak
Last edited by Archer22 (2014-09-23 07:52:57)

jasonwryan wrote:
Please read the Etiquette entry on how to post (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ow_to_Post): note the one topic per thread to make things manageable.
Are you sure that you removed plymouth from your initrd?
Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to NC...
I edited my post. Yes I think removed Plymouth from initrd through the following command:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
Is there anyway I can check? Also, I was thinking maybe the fallback image is used, where plymouth is still configured to start?

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