Getting 'blue screen of death' and Darwin/bsd screen
I would be much appreciated if someone would willing to give their almighty wisdom and experience to help a amateur mac user like me with this problem.
The laptop had been working well until I booted it up couple days ago and it wouldn't get past the blue screen and it would be stuck on there if left alone.
Searching myself online I have tried the 'command + option + P + R' waiting there start-up chimes, then holding shift key, etc. ASWELL as just holding shift key when starting up.
Both got me to a black screen with white text that said 'Darwin/bsd' and login and password.
I entered in my usual login and password and it says login failed and it blue screens a minute until it comes back to that Darwin/bsd screen again.
The laptop was bought under my father's account for my college classes, so I tried his account names and passwords and got no where, asked him and he racked his brain and couldn't figure out other names and solutions...
I cannot get to safe mode, those methods get me to the Darwin/bsd
In short I either need to get past the Darwin/bsd screen... Is there a way to bypass that login? or extract my files from my laptop somehow while it's in this state (I have other macs, an OSX 10.9.5, and OS something, and an external hard drive).
I'm not sure how to do this with these resources. Like I said I'm an amateur and a lot of other sites I found I got lost and when they start talking about 'taking apart' and 'wires' and 'codes', it makes me nervous. I know the macs have ability to transfer files to one another but with this old laptop down is that possible? HELP! Irony was I was about to back up my laptop the day this started, cause I started shopping for a new computer and knew this one was getting too old. Maybe my laptop heard me and is revolting...
PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.0.x), not sure on operating, got it in 04