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| Problems after Lombard reset |
Posted by: quinterro on 2008-10-14 12:39:32
Today I had to press the reset button on the back of my Lombard. After doing so MacOS X attempts to boot and stops at a circle with a line through it on a gray background.
I know reinstalling will fix this - I have had to do it before but would rather not need to now since my CDs are at home.
Any ideas? It is running 10.3.9.
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Posted by: slimac55 on 2008-10-14 13:15:21
Try booting up in verbose mode (hold down command-v on boot) and see what message it gives you when it crashes.
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Posted by: quinterro on 2008-10-14 13:26:21
Try booting up in verbose mode (hold down command-v on boot) and see what message it gives you when it crashes. No response. It still does the same thing.
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Posted by: slimac55 on 2008-10-14 13:43:47
Are you holding the keys down as soon as you press the power button?
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Posted by: quinterro on 2008-10-14 14:04:04
Yes, before the bong sound.
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Posted by: paws on 2008-10-14 14:20:22
Doesn't sound good - cmd+v should be passed to the kernel, which would be the very first thing that gets loaded... if it's not even doing that...
Try boot hd: or mac-boot from the open firmware prompt.
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Posted by: quinterro on 2008-10-14 14:37:23
Doesn't sound good - cmd+v should be passed to the kernel, which would be the very first thing that gets loaded... if it's not even doing that...
Try boot hd: or mac-boot from the open firmware prompt. I managed to get into Open Firmware. Wheee! 🙂
With 'boot hd:' I get the following message:
"MAC-PARTS: LOAD (noninterposed) not supported-size=0 adler32=1
LOAD-SIZE is too small"
With 'mac-boot' it resumes the boot process with the same results as before.
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Posted by: quinterro on 2008-10-14 17:53:22
I'm home now and am in the process of a Archive and install of 10.3. It sucks but at least I won't have to reinstall my software.
Strangely enough, I did not have to remove one of the DIMMs to install Panther-at least so far. I forgot to do it before I started this time.
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Posted by: Franklinstein on 2008-10-15 12:40:25
My PowerBook G4 did the whole prohibitory-sign boot failure once or twice immediately before it refused to turn on ever again. Still not sure what died on it.
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Posted by: quinterro on 2008-10-15 13:14:24
It's back up for now, but it would be nice to figure out the cause. Thank goodness for being able to preserve users and applications, otherwise it would be considerably more painful.
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