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 > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
