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Q: My powerbook g4 wont boot

Hello today i need to ask some people why my powerbook g4 wont boot it goes all the way to the blue screen and then it has the spinning lines than it goes to the mouse cursur and just stays there. I trien reseting pmu, pram, nvram but nothing happens i have the mac disk but when i put it in and hold c when i start it just has a blank white screen and it pops the cd out. i tried open firmware way by typing boot cd:,
:bixs but it just sais open Atapi-diak cant read disk label cant open cd:,
:bixs. i tried startup manager but the disk isnt there and my mac hd is in the startup manager but has a little x in the picture what does that mean.  So anyone there can some one help me

 

 

 

    Xhevat.G

  just an ordinary mac user

PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.3.x), has mac os x panther

Posted on Apr 19, 2011 1:58 PM

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  • by old comm guy,

    old comm guy old comm guy Apr 19, 2011 4:12 PM in response to xhevat
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    Apr 19, 2011 4:12 PM in response to xhevat

    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?

  • by xhevat,

    xhevat xhevat Apr 19, 2011 6:17 PM in response to old comm guy
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    Apr 19, 2011 6:17 PM in response to old comm guy

    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?

  • by EpicSkillzMan,

    EpicSkillzMan EpicSkillzMan Apr 19, 2011 6:20 PM in response to xhevat
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    Apr 19, 2011 6:20 PM in response to xhevat

    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.

  • by old comm guy,

    old comm guy old comm guy Apr 19, 2011 6:55 PM in response to EpicSkillzMan
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    Apr 19, 2011 6:55 PM in response to EpicSkillzMan

    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

  • by xhevat,

    xhevat xhevat Apr 20, 2011 8:39 AM in response to xhevat
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    Apr 20, 2011 8:39 AM in response to 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

    0420111114.jpg0420111113.jpg

    so can anyone here please help

  • by old comm guy,

    old comm guy old comm guy Apr 20, 2011 9:41 AM in response to xhevat
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    Apr 20, 2011 9:41 AM in response to xhevat

    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.

  • by xhevat,

    xhevat xhevat Apr 20, 2011 10:12 AM in response to old comm guy
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    Apr 20, 2011 10:12 AM in response to old comm guy

    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