Hello, I've run into a bit of a problem and am hoping for some suggestions.
I recently installed, as an experiment, Tiger on my 233Mhz Bondi iMac (Rev A.) The only upgrades I had done on this unit are RAM (320Mb) and a new hard drive. (The Tiger install was done by moving the HD to another machine with a DVD Drive.) I have used, thus far, a total of 7 Gigs on the 100 Gb HD. Since then, I've been working in both OS 9.2.1 and Tiger without a hitch. Until today, that is, when I installed the 10.4.3 update. Upon restarting in OS X I got nothing but the white screen with a gray apple, no other activity. The restart button was no help. I restarted using an OS 9 install disk and, using the startup disk control panel changed the startup system to OS 9.2.1. After restarting I got nothing but a flashing question mark. So I once again started up using the CD and trashed the system preferences file. This worked, and I am now able to boot into 9.2.1. However I still cannot boot into OS X. I tried to repair permissions using a Tiger install disk. It went through the process, but did not log any repairs. A restart yielded the same white screen. I trashed several preference files but that has not helped (and, to be honest, I wasn't quite sure which ones to trash.) I did notice that there were quite a number of files listed as modified at 5PM today, several hours AFTER I did the update, so I reset the date to tomorrow to see if that would help but it did not. I'm about to give up on this so would appreciate any suggestions before I throw in the towel. Thanks! -Michael -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
