Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bbn.com!nic!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!chaos!aland From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: What's going on after reboot? Message-ID: Date: 27 Nov 90 17:43:50 GMT References: <1990Nov26.164508.19238@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: @chaos.cs.brandeis.edu Organization: Brandeis University Computer Science Dept Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: dcw@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu's message of 26 Nov 90 16:45:08 GMT In article <1990Nov26.164508.19238@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> dcw@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (David C. Worenklein) writes: After I hit the little reboot switch on the side of my Mac, or upon turning on the computer after not having issued a "shutdown", it takes a long time for the Finder to come up. It seems like the desktop on my hard drive is being rebuilt after having been corrupted by the last session, but this even happens if I turn off the computer before it has finished booting! When you reboot the Mac without it being 'properly shut down' it does some error-checking upon the reboot. It does this because it 'thinks' that it crashed, no matter what the actual cause of the shut-off was. It does this because (I think) the last thing the 'shutdown manager' does is set a bit which tells the mac whether that it was properly shut down. Otherwise, the Mac thinks it was crashed, and does its check. -- ---=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--- Alan D. Danziger, | 753 South St,Waltham MA 02154 | "Licensed aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu | MB 3130 / Brandeis University | to (617) 894-6859 | PO Box 9110 Waltham MA 02254 | Program" ---=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=---