At 7:16 AM -0400 9/6/2009, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
>I recently upgraded my iMac 450 mhz G3 to Tiger.  After running
>Software Update and installing a variety of Apple updates, the G3
>will not complete the boot process.  It loads OSX....but never mounts
>my hard drive.  I don't know what happened during the Software
>Update, but my iMac is useless at the moment....
>
>Disk Warrior is finding issues to fix, so right now, I am running DW
>over and over again until it comes up clean.  Any other suggestions?

(Your possible HD issues aside) The "hang" at the spinning gear, 
after an Apple update, is usually because their installer farks the 
cache clearing task.  This is a looooong outstanding standing bug 
that Apple just seems to ignore....  Booting into Safe Mode (by 
holding down the Shift key), clears the system and kernel caches then 
rebuilds them.  After that just reboot normally.

- Dan.
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- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.

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