On Apr 6, 2005, at 17:31, Thomas Baker wrote:
At 2:31 PM -0600 4/06/2005, Mary Russell wrote:
When your machine freezes like that, shut down by pushing and holding
the start button on your machine until the computer shuts down.
Put your OS10 install disk in and reboot holding down c.
Go to disk utility from the menu at the top of the screen.
When DU opens go to repair, select your hard drive.
Check/repair your drive for any problems and then repair permissions.
Reboot again the regular way, and repair the permissions again
from your machine's disk utility app. This should take care of it
unless there is something seriously wrong with your computer.
Mary
Thank you Mary, but when I try to boot from the OS-X install CD, one
of two
things happens: it either hangs frozen after the Apple symbol shows up
and
little gear under it spins for a minute, or else it pops to a green
screen
that says "you must restart your computer" in about five different
languages. Restarting just causes the same thing to happen all over
again.
So, it appears that booting from the install CD is out.
Man, if this wasn't a dual-boot machine, so that I could drop back to
OS-9,
where I am now, this computer would be dead meat.
Who around here was saying that OS-X doesn't break? This G4 733 DA ran
X
just fine for 7 months, and all of a sudden, today, the OS explodes,
without warning. And there doesn't seem to be any way to get it back,
either. Nothing is working.
I appreciate the attempts to help, though. Anybody else got any ideas?
Did you try the idea I suggested - booting into verbose mode?
Did you try zapping PRAM?
Eagle
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