I7 iMac won't boot, kernel panic after migration
I received my imac yesterday, booted it, created a profile, played around, and since everything seemed to be working ok, today I decided to migrate my data from my macbook pro, which is running 10.5.8.
The migration seemingly went fine. Once it was finished, I logged into the immigrant profile. All looked well, but the bluetooth mouse wasn't recognized. Turning it off and on didn't help so I opted to reboot the machine.
After about ten seconds of the apple logo and loading symbol, I received a kernel panic. I performed a hard restart and the same thing happened. I inserted my OS dvd and performed the hardware test first. Everything checked out fine. Next I verified permissions. I was alerted to a modification of the apple remote desktop agent that couldn't be repaired. In the apple support section I discovered this message was nothing to sweat about. Next I verified the disk and it reported everything was fine. I reset the pram and booted into safe mode successfully. I wasn't sure what to do next since I'd already run disk utility from the dvd, so I tried rebooting once more to see if the machine could do it on its own now, but no luck. Instead of a panic, it now runs through the apple logo, loading symbol, and then sticks on a blank white screen.
I'm now in the process of erasing the hard drive and reinstalling the OS as there was obviously a problem caused by the migration. My question is, what caused it? I made sure the macbook pro was up to date in software update before I started. It only copies user data, applications and their settings, and system preferences, correct? What in the world could have copied over that caused such a severe problem?
I'm certainly scared off of running the migration assistant again, but even if I have to copy my data over piecemeal I'm worried that I may inadvertently copy something the new mac doesn't like.
If anyone has an idea about what's going on, please advise.
After proofreading my post, it just occurred to me, could the system preference for the start up disc have caused a problem? That doesn't seem likely though or migration assistant would never work. And I was able to boot into safe mode. Could it have been a start-up item (these are disabled in safe mode)? I have snaps pro and some color management software in my login items, but since that's specific to the account, these should only play a role once I log into that user profile, correct?
For reference, here is the apple doc on safe mode. Since the machine booted into safe mode successfully, then I must assume the problem was caused by one of the items safe mode disables which comes into play during whatever the computer loads at the apple logo.
The migration seemingly went fine. Once it was finished, I logged into the immigrant profile. All looked well, but the bluetooth mouse wasn't recognized. Turning it off and on didn't help so I opted to reboot the machine.
After about ten seconds of the apple logo and loading symbol, I received a kernel panic. I performed a hard restart and the same thing happened. I inserted my OS dvd and performed the hardware test first. Everything checked out fine. Next I verified permissions. I was alerted to a modification of the apple remote desktop agent that couldn't be repaired. In the apple support section I discovered this message was nothing to sweat about. Next I verified the disk and it reported everything was fine. I reset the pram and booted into safe mode successfully. I wasn't sure what to do next since I'd already run disk utility from the dvd, so I tried rebooting once more to see if the machine could do it on its own now, but no luck. Instead of a panic, it now runs through the apple logo, loading symbol, and then sticks on a blank white screen.
I'm now in the process of erasing the hard drive and reinstalling the OS as there was obviously a problem caused by the migration. My question is, what caused it? I made sure the macbook pro was up to date in software update before I started. It only copies user data, applications and their settings, and system preferences, correct? What in the world could have copied over that caused such a severe problem?
I'm certainly scared off of running the migration assistant again, but even if I have to copy my data over piecemeal I'm worried that I may inadvertently copy something the new mac doesn't like.
If anyone has an idea about what's going on, please advise.
After proofreading my post, it just occurred to me, could the system preference for the start up disc have caused a problem? That doesn't seem likely though or migration assistant would never work. And I was able to boot into safe mode. Could it have been a start-up item (these are disabled in safe mode)? I have snaps pro and some color management software in my login items, but since that's specific to the account, these should only play a role once I log into that user profile, correct?
For reference, here is the apple doc on safe mode. Since the machine booted into safe mode successfully, then I must assume the problem was caused by one of the items safe mode disables which comes into play during whatever the computer loads at the apple logo.
macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
