[NewtoDellMini]

After install during reboot, the computer has kernal crashes before booting up. Tried several times to restart and same result each time. Anyone know if I have to do a clean install of is there a way to save the data? I still have the install USB drive, but I'd rather not to have to resort to it. Thanks.

[dinku]

I recently updated to 0.8.4 RC1 NBI and got stuck at the apple logo screen with a spinning wheel and a STOP symbol superimposed on it.

I had to reinstall my OS using my old bootable usb which has a OS X 10.6 only on it.

I reinstalled it without erasing my hard drive and when every thing was done my system was back to prior to installing 0.8.4 RC1 NBI i.e 10.6.2 NBI 0.8.3 with all my apps, emails, documents, songs, movies etc intact.

Dont ask me how but thats what happened.

Maybe the senior/experienced members can shed some light on this?

[tvguy]

Same thing happened to me. I thought I had everything ready to update then ... POW... dead in the water. Couldn't boot or anything.

I ended up booting off of the original 8gig USB drive I made and reinstalled 10.6. It didn't touch the loaded programs I had, it just dropped the OS from 10.6.2 back to 10.6... I and running Netbook Boot Maker 0.8.4RC1 and upgrading to 10.6.3 with the combo updater... Pray for no problems!!!

[Felixz]

yeah just because your OS can't reboot doesn't mean the OS user files are effected, so what you've done is known in the Mac world as an 'archive and restore' installation..

so the headless chickens shouting back up back up are a bit over the top, as you get everything back just back to OSX6.0 or what ever your disc is..

[holmes4]

See How to recover from failed 10.6.3 update

[serhito]

Originally Posted by tvguy

Same thing happened to me. I thought I had everything ready to update then ... POW... dead in the water. Couldn't boot or anything.

I ended up booting off of the original 8gig USB drive I made and reinstalled 10.6. It didn't touch the loaded programs I had, it just dropped the OS from 10.6.2 back to 10.6... I and running Netbook Boot Maker 0.8.4RC1 and upgrading to 10.6.3 with the combo updater... Pray for no problems!!!

I have a dualboot with Snow Leopard and Windows 7. I did an update for Snow Leopard and now it won't boot. If I reinstall Snow Leopard, will it mess up my Windows 7 partition ?