I have a Mac Powerbook G4 10.5.8 1.33Ghz that only opens to a gray screen with a Apple icon and spinning wheel, it happened all at once, any idea how to get it to deboot?
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Help...Mac Powerbook G4 crash!
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You can try starting in safe mode, power up the machine and press Shift key until the spinning gear or whatever it is appears.
Another thing you could try is to boot by pressing Apple -key and S at the same time, again keep pressed long enough. Then you see black screen with text, write
/sbin/fsck -fy
And press enter, it will check and try to fix your hard disk (not physically but for file system problems etc... heh)
Another thing you could try is to boot by pressing Apple -key and S at the same time, again keep pressed long enough. Then you see black screen with text, write
/sbin/fsck -fy
And press enter, it will check and try to fix your hard disk (not physically but for file system problems etc... heh)
