Jaguar boot problems

[loik]

Hi all

My iMac with Jaguar doesn't boot at all in normal mode. If I go into "verbose mode" with Command-V, the first error message appears right after init starting up. It says:

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(ipc/send) invalid destination port: initCGDisplayState: cannot map display interlocks
kCGErrorFailure: CGSNewConnection cannot connect to server
INIT_Processeses(), could not establish the default connection the the WindowServer./etc/rc.boot: line 1: 11 Abort trap
open
key:
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Line 1 of /etc/rc.boot consists of #!/bin/sh like it probably should be.

Then if i press return the boot process goes on. Later on similar messages pop up, some with the same "key:" kind of prompt, and if I press return it goes on and eventually boots up like it used to. At some point it also says "remove: command not found" though there's no "remove" command in the script mentioned.

Oh and I recently installed XDarwin.

Already cleared the PRAM and checked the disk.

Thanks for any ideas

loik

 

[Zammy-Sam]

Hi Loik and welcome to the forum.
Does "checked the disk" also include repairing permissions? If not, I would give it a try

 

[loik]

Repaired the permissions now. It doesn't help

thx
loik

 

[Cheryl]

I suggest you use Disk Warrior or Drive 10, boot from the CD and have it repair the drive. It will automatically check all files and repair them.

 

[loik]

umm... are you suggesting that i should buy software (disk warrior, disk 10) just to fix problems with other software i bought?

any other tips? ...

loik

 

[Cheryl]

Have you contacted the developer of XDarwin? Did you check their forums?

http://www.xdarwin.org/forum/

There has been times, that I have run a third party utility to get a newly installed program to work.