HELP! My graphite ibook will not bring me to login!

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Bydesign21

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I ran some basic updates and now my ibook is hosed. It has OS X v. 10.2. I get the gray screen with the 'gears' but that's it, it keeps hanging. I cannot start from the cd either, or go into safe mode. I can get into the fsck utility, it ran several times and modified things, fixed everything but it still does not start.

How can I get the cd to boot? I don't mind reinstalling the operating system but I can't get that far.
 
If you hold down the option key at boot-time, does it show you the CD as an option to boot from? If so, click it and continue. I'd also reset the PRAM (Cmd-Opt-P-R at boot time until you hear the chime).
 
I got to the cd finally, ran utilities and it fixed things, but still, when I boot it does nothing but just 'run' at the gray screen with the gears, for hours. I cannot get to the desktop anymore. I reset the PRam, that did nothing...

I would try to reinstall OX 10.2 but it tells me an earlier version does not exist, and I cannot continue.

What the heck

Shannon
 
Bydesign21 said:
I got to the cd finally, ran utilities and it fixed things, but still, when I boot it does nothing but just 'run' at the gray screen with the gears, for hours. I cannot get to the desktop anymore. I reset the PRam, that did nothing...

I would try to reinstall OX 10.2 but it tells me an earlier version does not exist, and I cannot continue.

What the heck

Shannon
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sorry, please clarify why it won't let you wipe and install 10.2?
 
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