on 18/03/03 14:40, Kris Dunn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, yesterday the system locked up when browsing the internet. The > pointer stopped moving and the keyboard would not respond either. I ended up > having to used the fn-ctrl-shift-power to shut it down. Upon startup there > was a significant pause of silence after the chime followed eventually by a > pulsing hard drive and flashing question mark. Booting with the 10.2 install > disk and using the disk utilities I was able to repair permissions, so it > could see and access the disk, but it still would not boot.
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