[jes]

yeah i was fooled by the "improved coreaudio capabilities" advertised in 10.2.8, plus the fact that it had been released, then pulled, then rereleased so i thought it would be fine. -- and it WAS with PT/digi coreaudio 6.1.1. It was only when digi suggested that all 6.1.1 user should update that to 6.1.2 that it wouldn't boot on restart.
i'm very unhappy.
it's a weird problem, right afetr drawing the apple on the screen BootX fails to hand of booting to the kernel and make s ablack bar above the apple. game over. it seems like it's some problem within the bootX init that is improperly caching which extenstions to load into the kernel, but that's as far as i can deduce. it's happening to several people, according to apple's discussion boards, no answers yet.