ibook g4 won't boot cause of front row mod enabling. help.

Boot from the OSX restore disk and do an erase and install, you'll lose all your data but get your Mac back.

Sorry mate but Front Row just isn't worth the hassle.

 

^Indeed...just leave it alone when you do the restore.



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Hold C on boot with the disk in.

 

Hold down C when you reboot with the disk in the drive to boot from the CD.

 

Yeah, you have to hold C while it's booting. That tells the computer to boot from the disk in the drive, not the hard drive.

 

Did you buy the computer from someone?
There shouldn't be a problem trying to boot from the CD...



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Do you have the restore disk or the retail version of tiger? You shouldn't need a mouse to do this...just pop the disk in..restart and hold down the C button.

Are we dealing with your mac or your friend's mac?

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Yeah, same thing happened to me but I sent it to a friend, who fixed it no hassle, no Erase, nothing; it was brilliant. If nothing works, (nothing worked for me) I can ask him how he did it, it shouldn't be too hard, and I don't even think he used the boot disks... reply soon! (I didn't ask how he did it...)
Cheers

 

****, an auction. Well, I can get you a reply, but it'll take a day or so. I'll email him, then forward it to you.
talk to you later

 

It'll be fixed for Saturday
(I sent it Monday morning, back Mon. night )

 

Right. Well, the first thing noticed about the machine was that it was getting almost all the way through the boot up: maybe rebooting in verbose mode (hold apple-v at start up) might shed some light on what was causing it to freeze?

Turns out it was generating a crash report (/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/loginwindow.crash.log), so had a peek at that. Apparently, there was a bad call coming out of a certain system plug-in (/System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin). With any luck, replacing that with a clean copy might do the trick.

So, booted into target mode (hold T at start up) and chained the iBook to another machine that was also running 10.4.8 using a FireWire cable. That brought the iBook hard drive up on the other machine, and I replaced the bad plug-in. Then I entered a few lines in Terminal to make sure the file permissions were all kosher.

cd /Volumes/your_drive_name/System/Library/LoginPlugins
sudo chown -R root BezelServices.loginPlugin
sudo chgrp -R wheel BezelServices.loginPlugin

(IIRC the mode flags were already set right, so I didn't bother with those.)

Then restarted the machine one more time. It booted without a problem, so hopefully that's that, though it might not be a bad idea to back stuff up, just in case.
Cheers

 

You have another Mac? slick. glad it worked.
have a good one (PS, you can thank me by buying Sam's Town by The Killers )