my update installed fine - tourette

no problems here. iMac Core Duo 2GHz 20"

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Tuesday, March 13 2007 @ 03:40 PM PDT

Can't startup now!! - dib_dotmac

I had this happen once. Do you have another mac? You can boot your probematic in target disk mode, and connect it to your other mac via firewire, and you can install the update from the other mac. I think it would have to be an intel mac, though, but not sure on that. When I had this problem, that fixed it for me. I guess if you have an external drive you can boot form, you can redo the install on your internal drive, also.

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Tuesday, March 13 2007 @ 04:43 PM PDT

Can't startup now!! - rjdbfree

Hosed my system just the way you described it. Not sure what to do.

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Tuesday, March 13 2007 @ 06:49 PM PDT

Can't startup now!! - russgr1

Same thing happened to me on a MacBook Pro with this update. I walked away when it was installing only to return to an unresponsive machine. After a forced restart I got the eternal spinning cursor and the fan began to run because something was causing the processor to heat up. Luckily I have a "safe" partition that I started up from and installed the Combo update from there. Now everything is back to normal after a nice scare and a few lost hours. Hope yours will return to normal after installing from target mode.

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Tuesday, March 13 2007 @ 07:05 PM PDT

Can't startup now!! - reverence

Well I fixed it. set up the macbook as a firewire drive and connected it to my iMac. Ran the installer from the iMac and selected the macbook as the target volume. All went well and is now up and running. Updated the imac from software update and that went without a hitch.

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Tuesday, March 13 2007 @ 09:29 PM PDT