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Where to start. How about I had OSX lion and downgraded to snow leopard. Just last night I was on chrome and I was waiting for a page to load. Chrome game me an error saying that it needed to kill a page. Fine! So that was the problem. It would not kill the page so I tried to open the task killer and kill chrome. Negative. That didn't work. Basically my computer was frozen. Ok! So I forced shut down. At that time I had my external hdd connected which had some files of lion and the OSX lion copy on it. I went to restart my computer and I began getting the broken folder flashing with Apple icon during startup. It booted into safemood with lion as the OSX. I canceled all that out so I can select the installer which said 10.6.8. I clicked that and once again it booted into lion safemode. I ran the disk utility and did verify disk and repair disk and repair permissions. All separate times. All of which still made the computer boot into lion safemode. I put in the snow leopard install disk and tried to boot from disk and reinstall to repair the permissions. To my amazement my laptop is full and has only 400mb of free space so now I can't reinstall.
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2465 
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