After last night?s storms I?m having problems with one of our G5s. When we finally had powered restored today, the user tried to turn on their machine and received the kernel panic error. When they tried to restart they received another message, but not sure what that was. I could get the computer to boot into safe mode but when I tried to run some commands from terminal I would get the kernel panic.
I decided to do an archive and install of the OS, but received the kernel panic shortly after the actual install began. I?ve tried booting with the option key and the original install CD so I could run Apple?s Hardware Test, but I never get the arrow to allow me to choose which drive I want to boot from, just a spinning stop watch. I booted into safe mode again and set my external fire wire drive (Has a bootable Mac OS installed) as the startup disk which worked fine, except that I still can?t run the Apple Hardware test from there. I was going to change back to the Mac hard drive for my startup disk and try to backup what data I could and try a complete reinstall. But now the Mac Hard drive is not showing up as an option in the startup disk control panel. I shut everything down and tried rebooting again with the external drive disconnected and now I?m getting a flashing square with a globe in it. Has anyone seen this before and what does it mean? -- Thanks, Beth -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060403/e3005e84/attachment.html
