On Sep 26, 2008, at 11:10 PM, Marty Levine wrote:

>
> I have an iBook G4, 1.2 ghz with 768 mb RAM and a Superdrive.  This
> machine has been booting off an external firewire drive for almost a
> year and is running Leopard since the internal drive failed.

What do you get when holding the 'Opt.' (AKA 'Alt') key while booting?
>

Should be a screen with Icons for each bootable system.
WAIT for the cursor to return to normal, select the external drive  
Icon, and hit return.

HTH

Chuck D.


> After power on and the grey Apple logo the computer goes to a black
> screen with multiple languages and says you must either hold the Power
> key down for several seconds or press the reset key.  Is this the
> dreaded Kernel Panic?
>
> Not knowing where the reset key is on this machine (if it even has
> one) I have only been able to try the power key.   The iBook restarts,
> and just repeats the same failure mode over and over again.
>
> I need guidance in trouble shooting this machine.  I am guessing the
> hard drive has not totally failed because I am not getting a blinking
> folder to indicate that it can not find an operating system.  Is that
> logic correct?
>
> I hope to find my Leopard discs by tomorrow - they were moved from the
> normal storage place.    Then I can try booting from the DVD.
> Unfortunately I probably won't be able to work on this machine for a
> week.
>
> Thanks for your help - Marty
>

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