[Uisce]

Okay, I have been searching the forums, but I have not found anything about this.

I am reinstalling 10.2 on my reformatted HD, so I am doing a completely clean reinstall. I stuck in my OSX CD, repartitioned to one from two, and then reinstalled OSX. On reboot, the computer would get past the grey screen, past the blue screen, and to the Welcome to OSX screen.

It seems to load everything ("loading core services" is the last thing I see), and then my speakers make a noise like something got reset (power surge) and I get a darker blue screen, that tells me I need to restart my computer.

After several attempts at restarting and ending up at the same screen, I booted back onto the CD & verified and repaired my permissions ('group set to 1, should be 0' was the only issue), only to get the same result on boot up.

So now I just reinstalled again, this time choosing to erase and reinstall from the installer menu. Everything insatalled, rebooted, and I got past the OSX screen again, only to run into the same issue.

This is on a G4 450, 768MB RAM, that was working fine before this.

So, what should I do here?

[Uisce]

Also, when I option-boot, I can see all my volumes - 9, 10, and the CD. When I booted into OS9, after startup, OS9 opened a window named 'OSX' (the name of my OSX HD) and automatically started to "rebuild the desktop file..."

[Spheric Harlot]

A possibility is a hardware problem on your machine.

Switch on the machine and immediately hold down Cmd (Apple) V. This will boot the computer normally, except that it will throw the boot protocol and error messages onto the screen.

Follow the text closely: The last couple of lines before the panic screen will likely tell you just what part of the boot is causing your problem.


Alternate possibility - dumb question: is your install CD scratched?

What you're seeing is a kernel panic, the UNIX equivalent of a system crash.

There is obviously something seriously amiss, and if you've just erased the hard drive and reinstalled OS X, it is conceivable that the install CD might be damaged, resulting in a corrupted install...

-s*

[mikemako]

are there any external peripherals attached when it's booting up?

have you installed any soundcard, video card, new RAM recently?

have you tried using the "Apple Hardware Test" CD that is included with the software you got when you bought the Mac?

it seems to me that it could only be a hardware issue since there is no software except the base OS installed and it's KP'ing..

[Uisce]

"There is obviously something seriously amiss,"

Indeed, when I was unl=plugging all my peripherals, I neglected to unplug my keyspan adapter. i pulled it out, and now I am running fine.

Its always the little things that get you...

[Spheric Harlot]

Damn. Glad you found the problem.