[Cube] Total Cube Newbie!

[Riba]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:02:57 -0500, "Andrew Strouse"
<kittstr at earthlink.net> said:
> Hi all.  I found a mac g4 cube sitting by the side of the road (in the
> trash).  I have been out of the "mac loop" for 10-15 years (my last mac
> was a mac classic) but it looked so pathetic sitting there so I picked it
> up.  When I got it home I plugged my usb keyboard and usb mouse in and my
> vga display.  Then I touched the power button and the little bugger
> roared to life.  Then it just sat there with a big gray apple on a white
> screen with a little swirling pinwheel thing.  When I googled this, it
> said to reboot with command-v to get to the boot messages and it stops
> dead after it says:
> 
> /etc/rc: line 283:  147 Hangup        SystemStarter -gr ${VerboseFlag}
> ${SafeBoot} 
> 
> So, my question is what does this mean and how can I fix it?  I don't
> have any disks or manuals, etc.  Should I go out and buy OS X and
> reinstall?  Is there something simple I can try first?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

Cubes being thrown out by the side of the road....I guess this is the
first sign to start looking for an upgrade... :)
To answer your question, I would first try to reinstall the system or
boot off a CD.