Comp won't boot after installing Safari 4

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Comp won't boot after installing Safari 4

After installing the new safari 4 on my Powermac G5, you have to restart the comp. Help... now I only get a grey screen! safe mode didn't work... what to do?

Message was edited by: MarcoKoolen

PowerMac G5 2Ghz, 4GB ram, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Jun 8, 2009 1:29 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 8, 2009 7:22 PM in response to MarcoKoolen

My MacBook Pro (original model) would not boot either - just a gray screen and no shell mode via cmd-s. This happened after the restart due to installing Safari 4.

Try holding down the option key while restarting. You should be able to select your hard drive and then boot as usual. After reboot, go into System Preferences->Startup Disk and select your Hard Drive again.

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Jun 8, 2009 10:03 PM in response to Micah Johnson

i'll give it a try... keep you posted, thx for input!

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MarcoKoolen Author

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Jun 8, 2009 10:11 PM in response to Micah Johnson

even holding the command key doesn't work... I just get a gray screen with spinning thing and fans starting up after 1 minute...

If i start up with advanced save mofe i get a message :
error mapping module file com.apple.driver.apple.cpupowermanagement

and

BCD root: Disk0s3, major 14, minor 2

I already reset the PMU ans SMU but didn't work

does anyone know what these "codes" mean?

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dfwryan

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Jun 8, 2009 11:08 PM in response to MarcoKoolen

I update all of my macs today and 2 of the 4 will not start up after the Safari 4.0 update. The MacBook pro gave me a warning that it could not install Safari 4 because it could not verify it (or something to that effect) and forced me to reboot. After reboot all I get is grey screen. Can't boot in safe mode.
My old 1ghz Titanium did not give me the warning, but will also not start giving me only a grey screen with Apple logo. What is going on???!!!

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Jun 9, 2009 12:34 AM in response to MarcoKoolen

I have also installed the updates - safari 4, itunes 8.2 and quicktime 7.6.2, and my iMac G5 will not boot up anymore. Just hangs when it gets to end of startup screen(blue). Have tried all the things I can think of - pram, smc, and booting into safe mode.

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DJ (UK)

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Jun 9, 2009 2:10 AM in response to MarcoKoolen

I have the same problem too on my MacBook Air.

Can't find anyway around and suppose that I will have to revert to restoring from Time Machine unless anyone else has found a way around?

Rather annoying and hoping someone will have some idea??

It worked fine on my iMac (latest version)

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Answer 7

Jun 9, 2009 3:14 AM in response to MarcoKoolen

Hope you've figured it out by now, but my advice was to hold down "option" not command. The option key allows you to select a boot drive at startup.

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Jun 9, 2009 4:33 AM in response to DJ (UK)

I also had this problem when I installed Safari 4 update this morning. After reboot system startup freezed just before showing login window.
After some research I discovered that the problem was a missing file:
/System/Library/Frameworks/QuartzCore.framework/Versions/A/QuartzCore

What I did was creating a soft link to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Safari.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Quartz Core.framework/Versions/A/QuartzCore

The command was:
ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Safari.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Quartz Core.framework/Versions/A/QuartzCore /System/Library/Frameworks/QuartzCore.framework/Versions/A/

Maybe this will help someone.

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Jun 9, 2009 5:04 AM in response to MarcoKoolen

wow.

+Apple has really lost its edge in the past few so-called Updates/Upgrades-!+ my Safari 3-something has its own probs, as do certain QT functions - not likely I will ever update to iTunes 8-whatever with all the probs going on there - but nothing like what you all describe here!! *+I'm too afraid to update anything now-!!+*

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Jun 9, 2009 5:47 AM in response to MarcoKoolen

I don't know if this is related to the new Safari install, but I seem to have lost my desktop access. No icons show up, no servers... just my background image. I already checked my Finder prefs to make sure that icons would show on the desktop and they should be there. Repaired a ton of permissions and SafeBooted once. Still the same thing.

Anyone else had this happen?

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funtoosh

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Jun 9, 2009 6:54 AM in response to ʞəʇɹɐq

my olde G3 iMac with 10.4.11 won't re-boot either ,-(
what system did you try the above solution on? seems like i don't have the directories mentioned, so i guess the tip was meant for leopard? did it help anyone else at all?

cheers, -f

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Jun 9, 2009 7:35 AM in response to funtoosh

Hmm, it was on tiger 10.4.11.

I managed to boot into console and noticed that loginwindow application was failing to start. When I tried to run it from console it was complaining about this missing file.
As I found this file in another location and linked it all went fine.

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funtoosh

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Jun 9, 2009 8:13 AM in response to ʞəʇɹɐq

bartek, sorry for the confusion, of course it works, thanx loads!!
i just found that i had different visibility prefs on my emergency-boot-system, hence the confusion.

so i managed to boot into single user mode (apple+s) on my crashed OS X 10.4 and entered the prompt above (which is a pain BTW when you don't have an english/international keyboard layout ...) and when i EXITed the machine started as usual.

well this took half of my work time today ... but, solved for me now.

did i say thanx loads? ;-}

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MarcoKoolen Author

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Jun 9, 2009 11:42 AM in response to Daniel Clark

I just tried to start-up from a system disk/DVD. Even this doesn't work. It won't boot up from DVD. After a while the spinning of the DVD stops and the fans of my G5 start speeding up. Other tips or tricks?

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Jun 9, 2009 11:59 AM in response to ʞəʇɹɐq

I also had this problem when I installed Safari 4 update this morning. After reboot system startup freezed just before showing login window.
After some research I discovered that the problem was a missing file:
/System/Library/Frameworks/QuartzCore.framework/Versions/A/QuartzCore

What I did was creating a soft link to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Safari.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Quartz Core.framework/Versions/A/QuartzCore

The command was:
ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Safari.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Quartz Core.framework/Versions/A/QuartzCore /System/Library/Frameworks/QuartzCore.framework/Versions/A/

Maybe this will help someone."

-> Bartek, i'm not a real technical guy... can you explain this to me in a simple way or in easy steps how to do this?

thx

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