10.2.4 won't startup

Zammy-Sam

Zammy-Sam

Desertchild
Recently I changed my background pic and after I set to a new one, I recognized my finder kinda crashed. I wasn't able to change the background anymore.
I rebooted and now macosx 10.2.4 doesn't start up anymore. It comes to the blue screen (after loading all "modules") when the background should appear, but nothing happenes. Screen-brightness and Soundvolume work and I can also release CD, but alt-apple-esc doesn't show up and mouse moves too.
I got freaked out and thought I might solve the problem just to delete that background file. Connected over firewire and got access to the disk in this firewire-disc-mode (?) but still 10.2.4 doesn't boot. I can't even startup from cd. As far I know I just have to put a bootable cd into the rom and it should boot from this. Nada...

Please help me!
 
Ok, found out alt-apple-esc works after holding the keys for some time but no prog is active.
And I even found out about booting from cd.

But what can I do?
 
Oh no!
Ain't there any kind of safe-mode start-up for macosx 10.2.4?
I also checked the harddisc with that disc-tool from os 10.2.4 and even with Nortons disc-doctor. I found lot of errors, but when I just scanned my working system on another comp too, I found out, I get all those errors as well, eventhough the system works just fine.

So, there ain't another way than saving the data and reinstalling? Reminds me to my bad old windows 95 times... God
 
To start up into Safe Mode (to Safe Boot), do this:

1. Be sure the computer is shut down.
2. Press the power button.
3. Immediately after you hear the startup tone, press and hold the Shift key.
Note: The Shift key should be held as soon as possible after the startup tone but not before.
4. Release the Shift key when you see the screen the gray Apple and progress indicator (looks like a spinning gear).

During the startup, you will see "Safe Boot" on the Mac OS X startup screen (Figure 1). To leave Safe Mode, restart the computer normally, without holding any keys during startup.

Safe Boot forces a directory check of the hard drive. This is identical to using Disk Utility's Repair Disk or the fsck -fy terminal command.
The cache of kernel extensions used to speed startup is ignored. (The cache file is /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache )
 
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