Re: can't boot off disk?

[Frank P. Eigler]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, John Siple wrote:

> I would try booting into single user (hold command-s while starting
> up) and run through the file system check (sbin/fsck -y) and see if
> that fixes it. After it's run type "reboot" and it should restart.

[snip]

Just a note - re-run fsck until it reports that the file system appears
okay. I forget the technical reason, but if changes had to be made and you
just rebooot, they get lost.
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Re: can't boot off disk?

[John Siple]

I would try booting into single user (hold command-s while starting  
up) and run through the file system check (sbin/fsck -y) and see if  
that fixes it. After it's run type "reboot" and it should restart.


It's possible you have a bad CD drive and the hardware test routine  
didn't catch it.


J
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On Nov 25, 2005, at 6:25 AM, Matthew B. Dwyer wrote:

Greetings Listers,

My Wife's G3 iBook 800 (dual USB) has died (as I've told her it  
eventually would!), but I'm not sure how or why.


Booting it up slowly brings us to the question-mark folder-icon. I've  
run the hardware check disc that came with the iBook and everything  
checks out fine. When I attempt to start off a system CD I get the  
slash-circle icon, it does not see the system CD (I tried both the  
Tiger CD and an old Jaguar one, I no longer have the Panther CD). I  
also tried to start it in FW target mode from my PowerBook 1.25, but  
nothing happened- iBook whirred a bit, no screen, no disc showing up  
on the Powerbook finder.


I'd recently installed Tiger onto the iBook, on top of Panther. Tiger  
worked OK but slow (256 MB RAM) for a couple of days before this  
problem.


So I figure the HD is dead, buut why can't it boot off a system CD?!

Thanks!
Matthew of the BeerBook


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can't boot off disk?

[Matthew B. Dwyer]

Greetings Listers,

My Wife's G3 iBook 800 (dual USB) has died (as I've told her it  
eventually would!), but I'm not sure how or why.


Booting it up slowly brings us to the question-mark folder-icon. I've  
run the hardware check disc that came with the iBook and everything  
checks out fine. When I attempt to start off a system CD I get the  
slash-circle icon, it does not see the system CD (I tried both the  
Tiger CD and an old Jaguar one, I no longer have the Panther CD). I  
also tried to start it in FW target mode from my PowerBook 1.25, but  
nothing happened- iBook whirred a bit, no screen, no disc showing up  
on the Powerbook finder.


I'd recently installed Tiger onto the iBook, on top of Panther. Tiger  
worked OK but slow (256 MB RAM) for a couple of days before this  
problem.


So I figure the HD is dead, buut why can't it boot off a system CD?!

Thanks!
Matthew of the BeerBook

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