orrinfacey01: Startup freeze after migrating to new i7 iMac

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Startup freeze after migrating to new i7 iMac

Hopefully this will same someone out there some time and hair pulling. I was migrating from a 2x2 Xeon @ 3ghz to a new i7 iMac. After Migration and restarting the iMac started freezing before getting to the blue screen. Since Apple couldn't get a support call to me right away I decided to do some poking around. Using Safe Mode booting and removing start up items I found the problem.

Since my understanding of the OSX system is very limited, this took me a long time to work out. Anyone with a sense of how OSX works probably would have known what to do immediately.

The system was hanging right after the Apple logo appeared and the spinner finished its spinning long after the start up chime. Instead of going blue, then to the desktop the screen stayed white. The first time I got the curtain of gray with a 'I need to restart my computer' message in several languages every time at this point. [crarko adds: We call this a Kernel Panic in Mac land.]

The co ...