Dos on My screen

has anyone ever experienced what looks to be DOS poping up on the monitor??
i was about to try to burn a cd out of dvdsp and when igot to 4% all of a sudden i was looking at DOS entries ( not moving or progressing) on my screen. Ya know the black screen with white writing and that blinking cursor

That is a Panic crash of UNIX.

Mac OS X is based on MS-DOS? Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!



Yeah that sounds almost like a "kernel panic." Is your system otherwise stable? I'd try some basic maintenance at this point to make it less likely to happen again.



- Justin Barham -

Mac OSX is based on UNIX...not DOS. The UNIX core just also happens to be text based, and have a similar look to DOS...

<<Mac OSX is based on UNIX...not DOS. The UNIX core just also happens to be text based, and have a similar look to DOS...>>

I know I was just kidding.





- Justin Barham -

The kernel panics that I have had and seen have normally been caused by Hardware like plugging in a USB disk or some thing so if they keep happening try unplugging things. One machine that I administer for our Mac user group had a keyboard cable that got crimped and every time we started the machine up the the machine had a kernel panic. If I started the machine up and then plugged the cable in it seemed to work OK.

WHEW AND THOUGHT THAT THIS IS A SIGN OF OVER USAGE AND I WAS ABOUT TO GET A NEW G5. THANKS

i was already shuffling the budget for petes sake