Greg@AppleLink.Apple.Com (Greg Marriott) (03/17/91)
In article <1991Mar17.041307.23955@cs.ucla.edu>, lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes: > > Is there a way to get a "clean" boot of the system without inits or > cdevs? I.e. booting as if the only thing in the system folder were > the System and the Finder. This would be very helpful if the system > fails to boot because of problems with one of the inits (a problem > I am having now). Any keystroke to do this? Under 6.0.x systems you'll need some kind of INIT manager to do this. Most (all?) of them have a "disable everything" key. Many INITs watch the mouse button and/or the shift key and will not load if you hold either of these while booting. Some watch other keys (or don't offer a "don't load" feature), so holding the mouse button or the shift key won't stop them from loading. Under 7.0, hold the shift key when you boot and you'll get "Extensions Off." in the Welcome to Macintosh window. "Extensions" means all the extra things that normally get loaded when you boot, including: Macsbug, extensions (formerly known as INITs) in the Extensions folder, control panels (formerly known as cdevs) in the Control Panels folder, and any extensions/control panels in the System folder. Really useful if the last skanky thing you downloaded decides to crash your machine when you reboot. Good luck, Greg Marriott Blue Meanie Apple Computer, Inc.
ds4a@dalton.acc.Virginia.EDU (Dale Southard) (03/18/91)
In article <1991Mar17.041307.23955@cs.ucla.edu> lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes: >Is there a way to get a "clean" boot of the system without inits or >cdevs? I.e. booting as if the only thing in the system folder were >the System and the Finder. This would be very helpful if the system >fails to boot because of problems with one of the inits (a problem >I am having now). Any keystroke to do this? Well, the easiest way I know of is to throw the "INIT cdev" into the system folder. It will allow you to deactivate all INITS at startup by holding down the 0 key. It is available from the sumex-aim archives. --> --> Dale UVa (ds4a@virginia.edu)
ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Lanett) (03/18/91)
lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes: >Is there a way to get a "clean" boot of the system without inits or >cdevs? I.e. booting as if the only thing in the system folder were >the System and the Finder. This would be very helpful if the system >fails to boot because of problems with one of the inits (a problem >I am having now). Any keystroke to do this? No, but you can add yet _another_ init to do this. Try init-cdev (avail from sumex in cdev); you can activate it at startup (hold space) and shut off whatever you want. If you are having init-conflicts you might want to use init-tracker to get a report on what they are patching; it's also at sumex. >Thanks, >- Trent Lange >-- >************************************************************************** >* UCLA: 1990 NCAA Football Champions (yes, the other kind). * >* Oh yeah, 1990 Women's Volleyball Champions, too. * >* And even our cheerleaders are improving (they're all human now). * -- //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Lanett ml27192@uxa.cs.uiuc.edu