can't boot up

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ndroo

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sorry about the new thread, i searched this topic but none of the answers helped me.

i have a powerbook g4 running 10.3.9 and every time i turn it on i get this panic kernal message that finishes by saying "we are hanging on here" and then tells be to reboot. if i do, the same thing comes up. this message comes just as the grey apple logo appears. there is also an indication that a driver is missing. things were fine before.

any thoughts on how to get back to the desktop?

thanks
 
Try holding down Apple-S after you hear the Macintosh startup chime on startup. Hold it down until you reach a UNIX command prompt (this mode is called Single User Mode and is used for performing diagnostics and rescues).

Once at the prompt, follow the directions on running "fsck."

Run fsck until you see that it finds the Macintosh HD to be OK. Post bacjk with your results.
 
thanks for replying!

ok i tried that and it started running down this long list of things in the fashion:

com.apple.kernel.6.0: Undefined in symbol set : (lots of different things here)

then the panic message appeared below all this.

One line in bold yellow read:
Failed to load extension comm.apple.driver.AppleMacRISC2PE

There was no prompt to type in anything nor any instructions on how to do so. I still cannot do anything after this other than shut my laptop off again.

any plan B?
 
does anyone know an alternate way of getting around this bootup error? running fsck did not work.

i don't want to lose these files!
 
Has this machine run prior with this same system?

What model PB is it?
Where did the operating system discs come from?
 
yes it has been running with 10.3.9 for a while....since i got it in august.

i bought it from a law firm that was discarding them and so all the programs, including osx, were already installed. thus i don't have any of the disks.

it's a 1.25 ghz g4.
 
ok. i'd like to try that, but i can't even get through the boot up to the desktop. how would downloading something be possible? am i missing something?

thanks for the help
 
Sorry about that. Brain didn't get up with me today :)

Try booting while holding the Shift key.

But, you need to get a retail version of 10.3 or 10.4
 
Hi, this is my first time posting on this forum. I hope that this question is in the correct thread! We have a one year old iMac G5, running OSX (sorry, I don't know which version; I'm getting confused with the menagerie of animals). I have been regularly downloading updates from Mac for security, iTunes etc. Yesterday I downloaded three updates (didn't even pay attention to which ones they were) while doing some other work. After installation, you are asked to reboot, which I did. The computer now cannot reboot; it gets to the point where a white box is displayed with a blue bar showing progress, and it sticks at 'Waiting for Printing Services'. I tried booting up while holding down shift (safe boot?), but it gets stuck at the same place. Anyone have a suggestion of what to do? I have not tried the command S approach because I don't know unix commands.
 
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