OSX Blue Screen

[acidtuch10]

Hey I need help, OSX died yesterday (the first time for me - ibook -640 megs 40 gigs drive OSX 10.2.1) ~~~ Using it as usual I pulled up Omniweb, it crashed and gave me that little yellow triangle. So I forced quite and rebooted..... To find upon boot it got to the Mac OSX screen and then stopped - cursor turned into the little spinning ball. So I figured I would step out and grab a smoke..... about a half hour later still at that screen :-( not good .... Booted off the CD and repaired permissions on the volume and rebooted to the same thing.... Ok I lost every thing !!!.

So my question is When something like this happens how do I force boot in OS9 ? ( would've liked to boot into it and save my files)

Next what would cause this to happen ?


Thanks

[sixthring]

Reboot into single user mode. Immediately upon restart hold down command+s. After the boot reaches a prompt type "fsck -y". This will fixed most error with your system.

[Javintosh]

you might want to try fsck -y

if you get a message that the system was modified, do it again until you do not get that message.

I don't know if it is overkill, but sometimes everything does not seem to be fixed on the first fsck

[DarkKnightInc]

Need help too, iBook 500, 9GB HD, 380MB Ram
Installed Jag afew weeks ago and everything was running great, then last night I got Kernel Panic. I ended up doing a fresh instal and then nothing... Booted up via CD, repaired permission etc. and still nothing. All I seem to get now is a grey screen with the Apple logo. I am not able to boot to the HD and if I try to boot to the CD I occassionaly get the Kernel Panic screen. Sometimes when I try to boot to the HD I get a strange symbol that looks like a No Entry sign.

I'm thinking it might be the HD (I have backed up my data so thats not a problem) and it might be time to upgrade to a larger drive. If anyone has any other ideas i would be truly greatful.

On a lighter note, my PowerBook Duo 250 (upgraded to PPC 2300) is still up and running (OS 8) and crunching numbers