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Originally Posted by LudwigVan Is there a boot log of some sort MacHead05 can view? Perhaps that can point him in the right direction. (I don't know the Mac OX well enough to know if there is such a creature.)

You can start up in verbose (show messages) mode by holding down V at boot, and if it ever manages to boot, you can have a look at /var/log/console.log for system messages.

You'll get a nice list of stuff like this:
Jun 13 19:30:59 Irrumator shutdown: halt by stephen:
Jun 13 19:31:01 Irrumator SystemStarter[229]: authentication service (237) did not co
mplete successfully
Jun 13 19:31:06 Irrumator SystemStarter[229]: The following StartupItems failed to pr
operly start:
Jun 13 19:31:06 Irrumator SystemStarter[229]: /System/Library/StartupItems/AuthServer
Jun 13 19:31:06 Irrumator SystemStarter[229]: - execution of Startup script failed
Jun 13 19:37:26 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
Jun 13 19:37:26 localhost postfix/master[56]: fatal: file /etc/postfix/main.cf: param
eter default_privs: unknown user name value: nobody
Jun 13 19:37:26 localhost kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 189277 free pages
Jun 13 19:37:26 localhost kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 70
Jun 13 19:37:26 localhost mDNSResponder-107 (Mar 20 2005 20: 31:47)[52]: starting
Jun 13 19:37:26 localhost kernel[0]: 83 prelinked modules
Jun 13 19:37:26 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
Jun 13 19:37:26 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All
rights reserved.