michaelsanford
Translator, Web Developer
I've got an iMac TFT 70 MHz running 10.4.11 (8S165). I leave the Tiger install DVD in the machine at all times, just in case.
I left it alone, running, and came back to find the (stock Apple) screen saver active (normal). When I moved the cursor to invoke the password dialogue, no dialogue appeared, and I got a beachball. Trying to contact the machine to force a reboot via ARD didn't work. ssh was closed.
I had only one option: hard reboot.
Only then, I get a missing system folder icon at boot time. Oops. Ok, boot from the DVD and repair the disk.
No joy: the screen stays gray for a while, then goes back to the missing system folder icon.
Zapping the PRAM (via the keyboard boot combination) as well as open-firmware reset-nvram and reset-all have had no effect (though they were both successful).
Any ideas of what I can try now?
I left it alone, running, and came back to find the (stock Apple) screen saver active (normal). When I moved the cursor to invoke the password dialogue, no dialogue appeared, and I got a beachball. Trying to contact the machine to force a reboot via ARD didn't work. ssh was closed.
I had only one option: hard reboot.
Only then, I get a missing system folder icon at boot time. Oops. Ok, boot from the DVD and repair the disk.
No joy: the screen stays gray for a while, then goes back to the missing system folder icon.
Zapping the PRAM (via the keyboard boot combination) as well as open-firmware reset-nvram and reset-all have had no effect (though they were both successful).
Any ideas of what I can try now?