At 5:58 AM -0400 10/6/2009, Lawrence David Eden wrote: >[400-MHz] iMac G3 with 1 GB RAM running 10.4.11
Nice iMac. >The Mac takes a long time to get rid of the spinning circle....then >appears to load the OS. The spinning gear is part of the OS load - first it sniffs up the machines configuration, then it loads Darwin (the Unix underbelly) and the kernel extensions. That splash screen and its progress bar is the rest of the OS loading, Aqua, and the service daemons starting - all the stuff that make OS X smell like OS X. >However, before the task is completed and I can see the desktop, the >Mac stops, leaving me with a blue screen. Do you have AppleJack installed? If you do, then boot into Single User Mode (cmd-S held down) and run it. Otherwise, as Kris suggested, boot into Safe Mode (shift key held down). >It won't finish booting....I fear that the HD is a little long in the >tooth as suggested by one of our colleagues on the List. >Interestingly, it was working fine until I updated JAVA via Software Update. Then it's doubtful your problem is hardware. Mostly likely the system caches are corrupted; typical after Software Update these days. Booting into Safe Mode will force a cache rebuild. Hopefully that will fix things. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
