Blue Screen upon update

[nealt]

I updated an e-mac from 10.1 to 10.4 using a purchased Tiger disk. It boots up fine except ends up with a Blue Screen. The computer boots up fine from an external HD with 10.4. I repaired permissions. I did a disk repair with no repairs needed. I can read fine from the internal disk. everything looks like it is there. Any ideas?

[barhar]

'Any ideas?' - ...

Consider using 'SuperDuper' (freeware / shareware [more features]) to copy the bootable external hard disk drives', hdd, installation onto the internal hdd.

01. Boot from the external hdd.
02. Download 'SuperDuper' (onto the external hdd).
03. Perform a 'Copy' from the external hdd onto the internal hdd.
04. From the 'using' popup menu, select 'Backup - all files'.
05. Click on the 'Options...' button
06. From the 'During copy' popup menu, select 'Erase <internal hdd name>, then copy files from <external hdd name>'.
07. From the 'On successful completion' popup menu, select 'Restart from <internal hdd name>'.
08. Click on the 'OK' button.
09. Click on the 'Copy Now' button.

'Carbon Copy Cloner' (freeware) is also a possibility.

If you do perform the above steps, or similar, please post your results.

[nealt]

I was hoping to preserve the documents, applications, and prefeerences that are on the internal drive.

[Giaguara]

Blue empty screen? Or the 'starting mac os x' screen?
Have you tried reseting pram? (at startup hold apple-alt-p-r until you hear the startup chime the second time, then release keys and let boot up)
Does safe boot make any difference? (hold down shift while booting.. it will take a bit longer to boot but should not take more than 2-3 minutes still).
If you hold alt down when booting, can you see any hard drives show up?
How much RAM do you have?

[nealt]

In safe mode it gets to the login screen. Then freezes with the desktop pattern in the background. Any user. Ram and resetting PRAM should not be an issue as the computer boots up fine with an external 10.4 HD.

[Giaguara]

How about verbose mode?
Command-v at startup.

Or try these :

Use safe boot until you come to the login screen.
1. shift (after login screen) - That gives you a safe login. Does that work?
2. option+escape, then click on a user - Will present name/password login dialog instead of list of users. If you can get to name/password login,
type
>console

(including > in hte beginning)
and you should get to console login .. can you log in even then?

[nealt]

I just decided to do an archive and install. It worked fine.
Thanks