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OK, funny thing. I rebooted again with my finger on the keyboard eject key to get the DVD out. After it popped out I switched over to the TiVO 'cause C wanted to watch something. An hour or two later, when the TV was free, I switched it back over to the Mac and lo and behold, there was the login screen! Sure enough, 10.6 had been installed and was working!
All was well, I installed some other updates, everything's groovy. Then I took a look at the display resolution options. "Oooooh -- there's 1080p. I don't remember seeing that before. Let me try switching to that one."
Screen goes blank.
How do I change it back? I tried rebooting to no avail. I assume there's some sort of "safe mode" where I can change the display back to where it was?
You might also zap PRAM:
power on, -> immediately press and hold down the Option+Command+P+R keys until three or four startup tones are heard.
OK, thanks. I'll try those in the morning.
Booting in safe mode worked and everything is hunky dory. Thanks, all!
Funny postscript, though:
I bought Snow Leopard almost as an afterthought. I was getting Final Cut Studio via a healthy academic discount and 10.6 was available for $29, so I figured "why not?"
Well, since 10.6 was finally all set, I started to install FCS. Turns out my Mini (a 2006 model) doesn't meet the minimum VRAM requirements. The install won't run. And you can't increase VRAM on the Mini either. Some frantic googling has confirmed that my only option is to get a better Mac.
As it turns out, I can get a decent academic discount on a new Mini that has more than enough VRAM, so I'm going to use this as an excuse to get one.
I think I'll put the current one up on eBay to offset the cost. I wonder what it's worth?
I just picked up two of the new Mac Minis, they seem to be quite nice. I did immediately bump the system ram up to the full 4 GB and may eventually replace the hard drives, but for the moment they seem quite good.
Yeah, I waited for over a year for them to upgrade the Mini hardware before I got one.
I'm finally buying them again now that they have dual video outputs on them. That's a huge selling point for me.
The academic deal gets me a Mac mini 2.0GHz 4GB/320GB SuperDrive model for $749. Wooo! (basically, the standard $50 academic discount, but with an extra 2GB of RAM thrown in).
I upgraded both my Mac and my PC to Opera 10, and I really like it. It's nothing like the beta. It's fast, and it lets you have image tabs of all your windows, which is good for me, because I have 22 open now, and seeing images of them is easier identification than reading the first one or two letters of the window titles.
