[G4] Strange startup after installations

[Mel]

Hard to say. Try typing command-V (verbose mode) when starting up. That 
will give you the ugly Unix terminal startup screen that will help you 
diagnose what might be going on. My guess is that it is doing a disk 
check (fsck -y) each time you start up, but why I'm not sure.
HTH,
Mel

On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 03:31  PM, lavode at comcast.net wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> After I upgraded my Yikes! 400 to OS 10.2.5, I installed the Logitech 
> Control
> Center for my Logitech optical mouse and restarted.  When the computer
> restarted, it chimed, started the video, and put the gray Apple logo 
> on the
> screen.  There it stayed for about 10 minutes, doing nothing.  After 
> that
> lengthy wait, it finally started the little clock running and continued
> starting up.  The didn't happen again when I restarted later, so I 
> assumed
> everything was fine.
>
> Then, after I installed Norton System Works 3.0 last night, I had to 
> restart,
> and again I had the 10 minute wait.
>
> The thing that makes me wonder why is that my wife's iMac Rev B didn't 
> have
> that pause after installing the Logitech Control Center, nor Norton 
> System
> Works.
>
> Any ideas on why my machine sees to need to "be alone for a while?"
>
> TIA,
> Lavode
>
>
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