Q: My Power Mac G4 won't boot beyond the grey screen circle with a line through it. I have tried all sorts of key commands to no avail. It was running OS X 10.6
My Power Mac G4 Sawtooth won't boot up beyond the grey screen. It stops with a circle with a line through it. I have tried all sorts of key combinations to get it to booth from CD/DVD, external drives, recovery and nothing happens. I do have the original disk set that came with it. On start up I do hear the chime. If I hold down Option Key, it shows me OS X. I select that and get this death circle. I have even removed the hard drive and put it into an external enclosure and connected it to my MacBook Pro. Immediately a message says that the disk needs to be repaired but my Disk Repair utility (El Capitan) cannot fix it. I cannot even make a new disk image to clone it. Help!
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2008), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Posted on Jun 15, 2016 7:05 AM