I'm at my wit's end. My powerbook g3, complete with its repaired and now broken again hinges is definitely on its last legs.
It had a kernel panic yesterday. So, I pulled out my trusty Diskwarrior application, ran it through its paces, but hey! It didn't work. I ran Norton, no positive results.
So tried the usual fsck -y. It repaired some files but when I tyed exit, it started to go through the loading process but stopped after:
Welcome to Macintosh.
Ethernet (BMac): Polled transmit timeout - 2
Ethernet (BMac): Link up at 10 Mbps - Half Duplex
Then nothing further happens. The loading process hangs right there.
I rebooted by pulling the plug, tried using Disk Utility, it found some problems but it still wouldn't boot. I can keep coming back to the Unix terminal by holding down command - S
I erased the OS X partition using disk utility, reinstalled Jaguar, and wala! All I got was the grey screen with the spinning icon showing the system was loading. After at least a half hour wait, I did a hard restart unplugging the machine and the battery I get the same results when I opted to hold down the Command - S key combination. The loading process stops as it did earlier.
I'm considering erasing the entire drive and reformatting it, once I'm able to get my files off the other partitions on the drive.
The OS 9 partitions won't boot properly either. While they will bring up an OS 9 desktop, the software is not fully functioning. I can't make a network connection to transfer my files to my other computers. The network locks up under OS 9 when I attempt to load it.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? Any advice?
It had a kernel panic yesterday. So, I pulled out my trusty Diskwarrior application, ran it through its paces, but hey! It didn't work. I ran Norton, no positive results.
So tried the usual fsck -y. It repaired some files but when I tyed exit, it started to go through the loading process but stopped after:
Welcome to Macintosh.
Ethernet (BMac): Polled transmit timeout - 2
Ethernet (BMac): Link up at 10 Mbps - Half Duplex
Then nothing further happens. The loading process hangs right there.
I rebooted by pulling the plug, tried using Disk Utility, it found some problems but it still wouldn't boot. I can keep coming back to the Unix terminal by holding down command - S
I erased the OS X partition using disk utility, reinstalled Jaguar, and wala! All I got was the grey screen with the spinning icon showing the system was loading. After at least a half hour wait, I did a hard restart unplugging the machine and the battery I get the same results when I opted to hold down the Command - S key combination. The loading process stops as it did earlier.
I'm considering erasing the entire drive and reformatting it, once I'm able to get my files off the other partitions on the drive.
The OS 9 partitions won't boot properly either. While they will bring up an OS 9 desktop, the software is not fully functioning. I can't make a network connection to transfer my files to my other computers. The network locks up under OS 9 when I attempt to load it.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? Any advice?