Greetings ( + )!( + )
On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:07 PM, David Dierlam wrote:
OK Here's the REAL problem: My cat stepped on the
power switch of my surge while I was online. When I
tried to reboot, the gray apple came up, the starting
OS X and the blue stripes came up, then just a blue
screen. I had to reboot with the CD, choose the drive
with OS X and restart. Still the blue screen. Then I
installed OS 10.4 on another hard drive and it works
EXCEPT I have to go thru the starting from the CD
routine, choose the right drive, and restart. If I
restart, I get the blinking question mark, forcing me
to go thru the start from CD routine again. I have
used disk utility, chose the start up disk in system
preferences and locked it. Basically the drive i
choose won't stay set, but will stay set when i choose
from the CD. Whew!!
David,
Give this a try,
1. Reboot from the 10.4 CD however during the boot reset the "PRAM" by
hold down the Command, Option, "P" and "R" keys during start-up and
keep holding them down until you hear the star-up "Bong" at least 3
times.
2. Once you have you platform up and running from the CD, start the
"Disk Utility" application that is located on the CD not one that is
located on one of your hard drives.
3. From within the disk utility application select the problem disk and
then run the "Repair Disk Permissions"
4. When that is completed repeat the same procedure for all of the
HDD's that are contained in the platform.
This is a recommend procedure that be done at least once a month if
your platform is in constance use. You can run the same procedure from
within the HDD when the HDD is the home disk, however it can not do a
complete job because the disk is in use. Therefor running "Repair Disk
Permissions" is recommended from the "CD"
Best Regards, /\*_*/\
Harry (*^_^*)
I know, when people see a cat's litter box, they always say, "Oh, have
you got a cat?"Ê Just once I want to say, "No, it's for company!"
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