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I took the PB to an apple store and they reinstalled the original OS (I'd lost the disk), and managed an archive and install and all is now well - apart from the hole in the wallet! I have now found the original disk too, which makes me feel really stupid. Thanks so much for your help Soulwar...

I don't get the option to log in, it just starts straight into the finder. (but there is only one user, and I usually go straight in anyway). I CAN start in safe mode, by immediately holding the shift key on startup. But the screen is the same. Frozen, with the spinning beachball.

I don't have the original disks (I'm trying to find them but I've moved house twice since i bought the PowerBook). I do have the disks from my partner's PowerBook, bought in the UK about 6 months before mine (which was bought in the States). I tried the hardware test disk and it came up with...

OK in verbose mode the following things don't seem right: AppleRS232Serial: 0 0 AppleRS232Serial::start -returning false early. Connector or machine incorrect localhost mDNSResponder[169]: SetupAddr invalid sa_family 0 Checking disks /etc/rc: line 286: 128 Hangup Then a few lines of...

Thanks Soulwar. I can't boot from cd, either disk warrior or the old os 10.2 powerbook install disk I have. I have tried a few times repairing the disk thru single user mode and fsck -fy. Once it found something to repair, so i ran it again and it came back HD seems ok. Then rebooted, same...

Hi there, I have a PowerBook G4, running OS 10.3.9. it's about 3 yrs old, but I can't access the "about this mac" for more system info, I think 256RAM and 867MHz PPC. (I'm using another computer to write this!) No particular add ons or extra software, apart from Firefox and MS office for mac...