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It turns out holding shift while starting in 10.1.3 disables login items. In this case, iTunesHelper was causing the problem. Once removed, startup worked fine. Thanks for the suggestions.

It's an IBM 20 GB Travelstar internal drive. I've waited for up to ten minutes on the thing, but if it needs more time, I can try that too. I'll try both suggestions and report back. Thanks for the help.

It will start-up fine with a CD, just not the hard drive. So either the hard drive is faulty, which is unlikely as it's only 2 months old, or some file used during startup is either missing or bad. Any thoughts?

Ran into a little problem yesterday. I woke up my PowerBook from sleep and the screen turned gray. Rebooted about 5 times with the same result: I would get a happy Mac and the spinning beach ball and then gray. I ran Disk Utility from the 10.1 CD, with no problems found. I ran the hardware...

Does anyone know how to exchange files between two Powerbooks running 10.1.2 using infrared? I can get them to recognize each other, but where do I go from there? Thanks

Thank you for the reference. Everything has installed smoothly.

I recently installed a new hard drive in my Pismo Powerbook. I booted from the OS X 10.0 CD and began the installation. When I came to the "Select a Destination" step, the drive did not show up. Only the Install CD was shown, and of course it was greyed out. Is there something I need to do...

I appreciate your help. I was able to download the Norton Utility trial on one of the lab Macs, connect to it while booting from my install CD, and use program linking to run it on my Powerbook. As far as I can tell, nothing was lost. Thanks again for your time.

My hard drive crashed last night. I have booted up from both my Software Intsall and Software Restore CD's that came with my Powerbook. I should note that when I boot up using the CD, I get a "This disk is unreadable by this Computer. Initialize?" I cancel, and launching Disk First Aid...