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paulfromchi

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Powerbook G4 1.33mhz Panther OS XThe machine won't boot except to show a gray background, apple and pinwheel spinning.

When I ran sudo diskutil repairpermissions / from terminal, I got the above message. What does it mean?

The computer wouldn't allow the utility program to be run from the Disk ! that came with the machine and also gave me another message that said a newer version of OS X was running on the system.

I'm about to try to recover my files via firewire and another G4 powerbook if I can't figure how to boot up.

When I was in terminal, it also said that the clock date was Dec. 31, 1969.

These are all the clues I have just don't have any answers.

Please help!
 
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