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Apr 19, 2011 4:12 PM in response to xhevatby old comm guy,If you are getting to the blue screen, you are well through the boot process, but it is hanging on loading MacOS.
Have you tried Safe Boot (holding the shift key down at boot) to see if you can get to your desktop or the login window? If you get that far, you can maybe check your system log in the Console utility for a clue or maybe do a permission repair in Disk Utility to see if you can clear things up.
Which specific PowerBook G4 are we talking about here?
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Apr 19, 2011 6:17 PM in response to old comm guyby xhevat,yeah i tried safe boot but it goes to the blues screen and stays like normal it doesnt come to loading screen it just stays and my model is
PowerBook G4 (15-inch 1.5/1.33 GHz and i need to fix it i tried disk warrior but it wont boot it goes to the blue screen but it has no box saying loading it only spins for a little than the mouse shows up and it stays like that for hours and hours do you think the startup files are dammaged?
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Apr 19, 2011 6:20 PM in response to xhevatby EpicSkillzMan,Disconnect all peripherals from your computer.
Press the Power Button and immediately press and hold down the Command and the S keys as the machine starts up. This boots you into Single-user mode and you should see white text appear on the screen.
When you see the # Command prompt, type /sbin/fsck-fy and hit the Return.
Now sit back & let your computer do its thing. This should take approximately 15 minutes or so. Depending on how messed up your computer is. Just be patient.
If and when you see the message File System was modified repeat the steps above again & again until you hopefully see the message "no problems were found." When that happens type reboot and hit Return again.
If these steps do not work then boot from your install disc to repair disk. To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc, and restart your computer while holding down the C key as it starts up.
Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select Disk Utility.
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click First Aid.
Click Repair Disk.
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Apr 19, 2011 6:55 PM in response to EpicSkillzManby old comm guy,On the single-user mode, you should first write-enable the root volume with the following command
/sbin/mount -uw / <cr>
then go ahead with running fsck.
/sbin/fsck -fy / <cr>
Space between commands and switches very important
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Apr 20, 2011 8:39 AM in response to xhevatby xhevat,i tried that method but when i put the fsck method it sais
/dev/rdisk0s3
Root file system
checking hfs plus volume
checking extents overflow file
invalid index key
repairing volume
rechecking volume
checking hfs plus volume
checking extends overflow file
invalid index
it sais that 3 times and then sais the volume macintosh hd could not be repaired after 3 attemps.
********File System Was Modified ********
localhost:/ root# Dec 31 19:02:37 launchd: chown ("/var/launchd/0"): Read only file system
i will even show you the pictures
so can anyone here please help
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Apr 20, 2011 9:41 AM in response to xhevatby old comm guy,OK, you did write-enable the root volume with
/sbin/mount -uw / <cr>
didn't you? That last forward slash is very important, as it means "the root volume."
That being said, if you did write-enable before running fsck, then you need something stronger than fsck, which would (among other things) be DiscWarrior from Alsoft which is much more aggressive in fixing boot directory problems.
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Apr 20, 2011 10:12 AM in response to old comm guyby xhevat,yeah i tried doing the enable method but this is what i get syntek error near unexpected token 'newline'
i have disk warrior but it wont boot any where on startup manager, open firmware, and holding c button with any disk i use it wont work

