PLEASE HELP ME, URGENT REQUEST ---- On G4 running OS 10.4.11, doing nothing noteworthy, I shut down last night and this morning upon attempting to start up the following was experienced:
Normal start up chime normal screens including load THEN IMMEDIATELY GOSE TO BLACK SCREEN WITH THE FOLLOWING: Darwin/BSD (hprinter.local) (console) Login: (i enter known uid (mrbill)) password: (i enter known pwd) Welcome to Darwin! hprinter:~ mrbill$ (here I can enter, but none of your words work -- how do we get out of Darwin??? WHAT IS THIS AND HOW DO I GET RID OF IT???? Fooling with it I get the following to show: theBash Bourne-Again Shell Unix Shell C 1991-2002 Free Software Foundation WHAT IS THIS AND HOW DO I GET RID OF IT???? G4 has 3 hds 1 40g 10.5.8, 2 35g with two partitions: A 18g 10.4.11 (I am writing this to you via this system and browser) B 12g 10.4.11 has the above new problem. BTW: Disk test shows all ok. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
