About an hour ago my mom was loading her music onto our new mac-mini. It gave her the "pinwheel of death/doom/destruction", causing her to instinctively hit ctrl-command-delete until the beach ball disappeared. Unfortunatly, nothing responded to any input; the whole thing was completely frozen.
There was nothing we could do but force reboot it. We came back later to find it at a text-mode login. We assumed the cat had stepped on "S" while booting, so we rebooted again.
Now, it boots and theres just a plain sky-blue screen with a mouse. No icons, menubar or dock to be found.
Looks like the BSOD is coming back to haunt us.
I have a fairly decent knowledge of *nix, but I find myself helpless without ctrl-alt-f1.
There was nothing we could do but force reboot it. We came back later to find it at a text-mode login. We assumed the cat had stepped on "S" while booting, so we rebooted again.
Now, it boots and theres just a plain sky-blue screen with a mouse. No icons, menubar or dock to be found.
Looks like the BSOD is coming back to haunt us.
I have a fairly decent knowledge of *nix, but I find myself helpless without ctrl-alt-f1.
