[X-Newbies] Re: software updating

[Richard Ramsowr]

david

It sounds like your having a Òkernel panicÓ and that's
not good. The missing manual book has some information
on what to do but I would call apple soon.

When it hapen to me I had to take it to my apple store
- it cost me about $75 dollars or so - but my Mac is
working again and they were able to safe the hard
drive.

Good luck!

thefireguy
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--- david_elmo <david_elmo at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> I just used software update on my QS 933 to get
> latest on Tiger, just  
> the Mac OS update, about 28 MB. It said to restart
> or shut down  
> afterwards. I said ok restart. QS went off as usual
> and then on but  
> just froze screen with that Xish icon at the centre,
> no spinning  
> mouse curser or anything no matter moving the mouse.
> I had to switch  
> off at the power! (What else can one do ? On my old
> 7300 I had escape  
> keys and power buttons.). Anyway, restarting did not
> help. I held  
> option down and picked to start in 9 and it did but
> had to check/ 
> repair the 9 volume as it had noticed it had not
> been shut down  
> properly. At least the machine noticed something!
> 
> I simply chose my X vol in startup control panel and
> restarted and  
> this time it fired up in reasonably short order.
> There is no proper  
> message about "your new update has been loaded or is
> being... " then  
> or before.
> 
> Last time I updated Tiger (a whopping overnight
> download on dial up!)  
> it restarted fine allbeit taking its time. I take it
> that no cursor  
> and no sound from the tower for minutes on end (I
> reckon 10) meant it  
> was frozen? Iam talking after the download is all
> over and I am  
> trying to restart...
> 
> Anyone else experience trouble of this kind in
> online updates? Any  
> safer ways of doing it? Maybe i should have chosen
> "shut down" from  
> the two options given when the download was complete
> (from the  
> software update facility)? Why exactly is there not
> a third option  
> like "do this later"? Why can't one _not_ drop one's
> dialup and  
> continue working and next time one restarts, the
> software will do its  
> embedding? Why is the download in such a hurry? Will
> the machine  
> definitely forget to load the new if it does not
> hurry?
> 
> Excuse me. I now feel a bit better. But still
> puzzled.
> 
> David Elmo
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