Power Book G4 not booting HELP!!!

[laxmac]

Hi!

My computer suddenly froze yesterday. I switched it off and restarted it. I was in a hurry and ot was taking much longer than usual to reboot. So I switched the computer on and off in the middle of start-up (which I read is not at all smart) I did this twice. The third time, I got no apple icon and little wheel. I got a flashing Icon of a folder with a question mark and the finder icon appearing alternatively on it. I've tried resetting the NVRAM many times but that doesn't work. I've tried booting the system in safe mode but i get a blueish screen with two arrow icons on it. I went to MS-DOS type screen (by pressing command+option+O+F) and i tried typing in boot and i got this message

VHB is bad can't open


HELP!!! Please!!!

Laksh

[bealss]

The best thing is to bood from a system CD. Hold down the "c" key to force the machine to boot from the CD. Run disk utilities. Repair permissions and repair drive.

SB

[nixgeek]

OK, try to get back into Open Firmware by holding Apple-Option-O-F right after the Macintosh startup chime. Once there, type "reset-nvram" (no quotes) and hit Return. Then type "reset-all" and press Return. The Mac should reboot. See if that fixes the problem. Post back with results.

[laxmac]

Hey!

Thanks a lot to both of you for your help!
The first suggestion worked like a charm!! I spent my whole day trying to fix my computer and the disk utilities solution only took a few minutes! The Disk utility system repaired all my corrupted "volumes" and my computers up and running again!!!

Thanks a lot for your help!

Laksh