Recent content by graceworks

Hi Tim, I drove myself CRAZY trying to figure this out. I tried EVERYTHING trying to successfully install Tiger, short of an erase & install... Even Apple couldn't help me. Save yourself a lot of time & frustration and backup all the files you need to keep, erase and format your drive...

Mac Boy...... I'm having the same problem and also have a thread going on this....if you find a solution, please let me know and I will do the same. This problem is very annoying...I have been all over the web on different forums all day and there are others having the same problem, but...

OK, Just for grins, I yanked out all the memory except for what shipped with the G4, then tried to boot in once again in OSX. It didn't work. I tried again in verbose mode. Here are the last 3 lines: BSD root: disk os5, major 14, minor 5 devfs_kernel_mount: failed to find directory...

Hi, Yes, I tried the PRAM reset. I looked at the Apple doc but it didnt tell me anything I havent already tried. Would there be a RAM issue for Tiger if there was none for Panther? At this point I think I would rather go back to Panther....Anyone got a disk they would sell cheap...

Hi, Thanks for the reply. I installed Tiger about 5 times yesterday, I already have firmware ver. 4.2.8, and the last time I installed I used the Archive & Install option..... Each time it says 'installation completed successfully', but upon reboot I still get the prohibitory symbol...

Im new here, and did not see this problem addressed in another thread....forgive me if this redundantly redundant. Ever seen a grown man cry? :( :( I installed Tiger yesterday on my G4 400mhz 448MB ram, on a 2nd hard drive (120GB). I disconnected all peripherals, including an Adaptec...