[Macpartners] G5 Power Book- Boot problem

[John C. Welch]

On 8/31/04 9:08 AM, "Stephen Goldman" <sgoldman at MIT.EDU> wrote:

>          Request your opinions Mac OS X.3.2 G5 laptop problem. I'm not on
> site and his is a high profile customer for our team.
> 
>          I suggested to see if the machine can be started from a boot disk
> for now. Is there a rebuild function with this OS. IF there is this option
> will the data stay intact?

It's not a G5 PowerBook ;-), not unless you have mad monster connections to
Apple.

Boot in verbose (read, lots of explanatory text), and see:

A) Can you even get into that mode
B) What is the boot stopping on?

Letting DiskWarrior have a whack at it could help too.

john

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