update to 10.6.3 failure

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Dell Mini 10v. I used software update to update mac os to 10.6.3 after running 
installer 0.8.4 rc1. 
This is on a fresh install of 10.6 with netbookmaker 0.8.4 as well. Upon 
restart, got message that 
something in the mac os update had failed. Upon reboot, computer would just 
cycle between blue 
screen and default screen saver background thing infinitely. Had to start all 
over and install 10.6 off 
of usb stick again and am now wondering whether I should bother trying to 
update to 10.6.3 at all.  

With 0.8.4 done, should I be able to run 10.6.3 on this dell mini 10v? Had no 
problems with 10.6.2 
for the last few months. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nodo...@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2010 at 12:46

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I had same issue but was able to resolve by doing the following:

Boot into safe mode by holding down the "shift" key after power on, then when 
you see the drive image, press 
the "tab" key and enter boot option "-x" with no quotes.  

After you get to the safe mode login screen enter your admin password for OS X. 
 On my unit there was a long 
period of latency before I was able to see my keystrokes and select "login" 
icon. 

Once at the OS X desktop go to "Finder", "Applications", and run 
"NetbookInstaller".  In NetbookInstaller I left 
the default options checked and just pressed the "Install" button.  Once 
complete I rebooted and the unit now 
correctly boots into OS X 10.6.3.  

Hope this helps.  Good Luck.

Original comment by Texas.Sh...@gmail.com on 10 Apr 2010 at 5:25

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-x did not fix this for me on my Dell Mini 10v.  I never see more than the login
desktop backgroud show up and then quickly disappear back to the solid blue
background.  My next step is to remove the drive and run NBI 0.8.4 RC1 on it 
from
another Dell Mini.

Original comment by sunwizar...@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2010 at 8:31

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I have a similar experience. Made a clean install of Snow Leopard 10.6 with
NetbookBootMaker 0.8.4 RC1. Installation took approx 1 hour and was very smooth.
Everything worked.

Tried to uppgrade to 10.6.3 via the automatic update. Installation failed. NBI 
Logo
showed up for 10 minutes. Now, when booting, I reach the OSX background and 
then it
seems to get stuck in an infinite loop. I see the shadow of the finders 
magnifying
glass up in the right corner. Then cursor becomes the colored one, the 
magnifying
glass disapears and the cursor becomes an arrow. Then this repeats over and 
over for
an hour before I shut the computer of, and of course boots into kernel panic.

I try to boot on USB stick, and install NBI, but still kernel panic so I 
reinstall
version 10.6 and dont know if I dare to uppgrade again? Many people have 
succeeded,
am I doing something wrong here...?

Dell Mini v10, 1GB Ram, 160GB HD, 1.6GHz, A06 bios version.

Original comment by mattias....@mensa.se on 1 May 2010 at 10:33

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I had the same issue, the kernel panic on boot.
It was strange though, because I could have sworn after I updated to 10.6.3 I 
ran 
NBI...

Anyways, the method Texas.Shields mentioned worked perfectly for me, thanks.

Original comment by Pandaman...@gmail.com on 1 May 2010 at 6:11

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Tried upgrading my other dell mini 10v to 10.6.3. No problem at all. This is 
an older
dell mini with bios version A00 and screen resolution 1024x576.

Original comment by mattias....@mensa.se on 9 May 2010 at 8:31

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Same problem as nodogma and mattias, same system configuration as mattias. 
10.6.4 and 10.6.3 updates fail the same. Stuck in a loop.

Original comment by marta.zi...@gmail.com on 19 Oct 2010 at 3:15

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You all are thinking to mutch just when chameleon bootloader arives type: 
recovery=y or recover=y  one of the 2 and it will run NBI again and hopla!! 
Running again.

Original comment by jackdonk...@gmail.com on 20 Jan 2011 at 10:20