On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Charles Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sep 26, 2008, at 11:10 PM, Marty Levine wrote: > >> >> I have an iBook G4, 1.2 ghz with 768 mb RAM and a Superdrive. This >> machine has been booting off an external firewire drive for almost a >> year and is running Leopard since the internal drive failed. > > What do you get when holding the 'Opt.' (AKA 'Alt') key while booting? >> > > Should be a screen with Icons for each bootable system. > WAIT for the cursor to return to normal, select the external drive > Icon, and hit return. > > HTH >
When I boot with the Option key held down I get the following a button with a curved arrow (clockwise) an icon for the external hard drive a button with an arrow pointed to the right So far nothing seems to cause a response other than clicking on the arrow pointing to the right. After that I get the same black screen. I have never used this feature of booting with the Option key before. Is this the normal behavior if there is only one bootable drive available? > Chuck D. > > >> After power on and the grey Apple logo the computer goes to a black >> screen with multiple languages and says you must either hold the Power >> key down for several seconds or press the reset key. Is this the >> dreaded Kernel Panic? >> >> Not knowing where the reset key is on this machine (if it even has >> one) I have only been able to try the power key. The iBook restarts, >> and just repeats the same failure mode over and over again. >> >> I need guidance in trouble shooting this machine. I am guessing the >> hard drive has not totally failed because I am not getting a blinking >> folder to indicate that it can not find an operating system. Is that >> logic correct? >> >> I hope to find my Leopard discs by tomorrow - they were moved from the >> normal storage place. Then I can try booting from the DVD. >> Unfortunately I probably won't be able to work on this machine for a >> week. >> >> Thanks for your help - Marty >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
