Black Screen of Death?!
Hello, Well, it looks like my roommates iBook has officially died. Unless anyone here knows what happened to it. Now it won't boot all way. It will get to just before the login window comes up, then the screen goes to black, with white text saying, Darwin BSD: loginwindow failed to execute. Does the Mac now have a Black Screen of Death reminiscent of the old PC days of the Blue Screen of Death? For those who want to help, this is from the original thread titled, Strange sounds of the iBook. . . iBook info: 600 MHZ G3, dual USB 14 (Son of Pismo) Thanks for any info, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Black Screen of Death?!
on 29/01/05 19:44, Zoltan Batiz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Well, it looks like my roommates iBook has officially died. Unless anyone here knows what happened to it. Now it won't boot all way. It will get to just before the login window comes up, then the screen goes to black, with white text saying, Darwin BSD: loginwindow failed to execute. Does the Mac now have a Black Screen of Death reminiscent of the old PC days of the Blue Screen of Death? For those who want to help, this is from the original thread titled, Strange sounds of the iBook. . . iBook info: 600 MHZ G3, dual USB 14 (Son of Pismo) Thanks for any info, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER Corrupted installation, I guess. Have you tried to boot from the OS X install CD? -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] casting the runes n.: What a guru does when you ask him or her to run a particular program and type at it because it never works for anyone else; esp. used when nobody can ever see what the guru is doing different from what J. Random Luser does. Compare incantation, runes, examining the entrails; also see the AI koan about Tom Knight in Some AI Koans (Appendix A). -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Black Screen of Death?!
On Jan 29, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 29/01/05 19:44, Zoltan Batiz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Well, it looks like my roommates iBook has officially died. Unless anyone here knows what happened to it. Now it won't boot all way. It will get to just before the login window comes up, then the screen goes to black, with white text saying, Darwin BSD: loginwindow failed to execute. Does the Mac now have a Black Screen of Death reminiscent of the old PC days of the Blue Screen of Death? For those who want to help, this is from the original thread titled, Strange sounds of the iBook. . . iBook info: 600 MHZ G3, dual USB 14 (Son of Pismo) Thanks for any info, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER Corrupted installation, I guess. Have you tried to boot from the OS X install CD? -Laurent. Not yet. . .sometimes the CD-ROM won't work at all. Not sure what is going on, but there are times when the CD-ROM drive doesn't do anything, not even when it booted fine. There's a slight pause when OS X boots, when it looks for all connected drives, internal or otherwise. When this normal pause occurred on the iBook, the drive did nothing. After it booted, when you press eject on the keyboard, nothing. I'll try to boot it up with the CD-ROM, as sometimes the drive works. If it doesn't, I guess there's the Target Disk Mode option with my Pismo. Thanks for your input Laurent. Z -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Black Screen of Death?!
On Jan 29, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 29/01/05 19:44, Zoltan Batiz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Well, it looks like my roommates iBook has officially died. Unless anyone here knows what happened to it. Now it won't boot all way. It will get to just before the login window comes up, then the screen goes to black, with white text saying, Darwin BSD: loginwindow failed to execute. Does the Mac now have a Black Screen of Death reminiscent of the old PC days of the Blue Screen of Death? For those who want to help, this is from the original thread titled, Strange sounds of the iBook. . . iBook info: 600 MHZ G3, dual USB 14 (Son of Pismo) Thanks for any info, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER Corrupted installation, I guess. Have you tried to boot from the OS X install CD? -Laurent. Not yet. . .sometimes the CD-ROM won't work at all. Not sure what is going on, but there are times when the CD-ROM drive doesn't do anything, not even when it booted fine. There's a slight pause when OS X boots, when it looks for all connected drives, internal or otherwise. When this normal pause occurred on the iBook, the drive did nothing. After it booted, when you press eject on the keyboard, nothing. I'll try to boot it up with the CD-ROM, as sometimes the drive works. If it doesn't, I guess there's the Target Disk Mode option with my Pismo. Thanks for your input Laurent. Z Try rebooting and running fsck. Repeat until fsck reports no errors. Details can be found at: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214 John -- DOS Computers, manufactured by millions of companies, are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form. -New York Times -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
