Hardware or software?

[steeleclipse]

I don't know which forum this should be in, so I will post here, and offer sincere apologies if it is a software issue.

Anyways, last night I was running an os x security update, and my G4 alum powerbook shut off in the middle. When I reboot, it just sits at the grey apple screen with the little "pinwheel" spinning, and never stops. I have tried numerous times just leaving it, however it WILL NOT get past it and go into the welcome screen.

Any ideas? thanks so much

 

[daveL]

Hold down command-s during the initial boot sequence. This will, hopefully, put you in single-user mode. At the command line type: fsck -y

This will clean up your file systems, if they've become corrupted. When the command completes, exit and reboot.

If that doesn't do it, I'm afraid you'll need to an OS install.

 

[steeleclipse]

i tried, but it froze that way too, is there any other options?

 

[daveL]

Get out your OS X install CD and boot off it. The menu bar of the installer allows you to do some disk utility functions. See if you can repair the file system from there.

 

[steeleclipse]

thats what im going to try... thanks DaveL