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OSX Leopard Install produces Apple BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH

discussions.apple.com — Apple BSOD. Numerous users reporting that after installing the latest Mac OSX Leopard they are faced with Apple's very own BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH. After about an hour of waiting for Leopard to Install when your Mac reboots you will be STUCK at a blue screen and you cannot proceed any further! Get those backups and recovery discs out!

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  • indiekiduk, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2This problem appears to be an unfortunate incompatibility with ShapeShifter software you might have installed.

    Do this and it fixes it (worked for me)

    1. Reboot into single-user mode (hold Cmd-S while booting machine)
    2. Follow the directions OSX gives you when you get to the prompt (I think these were them - just type the two commands it tells you to):
    fsck -fy /
    /sbin/mount -uw /
    3. Remove the following files:
    rm -rf /Library/Preference Panes/Application Enhancer.prefpane
    rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Application Enhancer.framework
    rm -rf /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Application Enhancer.bundle
    rm -f /Library/Preferences/com.unsanity.ape.plist
    4. Exit, to continue booting normally
    exit

  • Essefgy, on 10/26/2007, -1/+2Now on hour four of my install...
  • jmholloway, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Okay, I cant even get a menu bar. I didnt get an opening screen or anything. Just pure blue screen. Its been sitting for two hours... what should I do?
  • yeadude, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1dude this BSOD sucks! it happened to my Intel iMac!
  • WaterMedia, on 10/28/2007, -0/+1I'm having this right now. :(
  • cquinnd, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Were you able to get it working? Did any of the suggestions from that thread make sense, or did you have to resort to some other method?
  • Essefgy, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1No, make that Hour Six.
  • yasirwisdom, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1dude that menu bar is scary...
  • gr0k, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1This worked for me also. Wow, what a pain.
  • phoomp, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1Oh the irony ... especially in light of the BSOD easter-egg in Leopard!
    http://jakebillo.com/2007/06/29/oh-apple-you-card- ...
  • djk21108, on 10/28/2007, -0/+1Apple, it just works.
  • indiekiduk, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Uninstall shapeshifter its incompatible.
  • reni10, on 10/27/2007, -2/+0The solution to get past the Apple BSOD is posted here!
    http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageI ...

    Pity Apple themselves were NOT able to tell us this!!!

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