I'm new to this message board and have posted on two other threads and have failed to hook in anybody to help me out here. So, thought I'd try yet a third place. My problem has only existed since yesterday and let's call my impatience due to "newbie expectation mode" . 
Anyhow, I'm on an nice old 533 g4 power mac running 10.3.9....and I've always downloaded security updates immediately without question or one bit of problem. Then came the day before yesterday. (muted horn...wah, wah, wahhhhh) When I restarted I got the black screen with the following single user prompt:
/etc/master.passwd: Not a directory
/etc/master.passwd: Not a directory
-sh: /etc/profile: Not a directory
-sh-2.05b#
I am able to boot up to my 9.2 partitioned side of my H/D.
I'm scared to death I'm going to lose a bunch of cool stuff....like my entire iPhoto library and a bunch of "new client" projects for my graphics business.
Is there any hope or help.
Thanks in advance,
~Gear
Anyhow, I'm on an nice old 533 g4 power mac running 10.3.9....and I've always downloaded security updates immediately without question or one bit of problem. Then came the day before yesterday. (muted horn...wah, wah, wahhhhh) When I restarted I got the black screen with the following single user prompt:
/etc/master.passwd: Not a directory
/etc/master.passwd: Not a directory
-sh: /etc/profile: Not a directory
-sh-2.05b#
I am able to boot up to my 9.2 partitioned side of my H/D.
I'm scared to death I'm going to lose a bunch of cool stuff....like my entire iPhoto library and a bunch of "new client" projects for my graphics business.
Is there any hope or help.
Thanks in advance,
~Gear