10.4.11 KILLED my mac What have I done/[G4]

[Richard Meyeroff]

have tried to boot from a CD such as disk warrior or Drive Genius?
have you tried to boot from your install disks?

it may not be the drives it could be your power supply.

>  God I'm a crybaby, but the computer won't even go into single user 
>mode or Safe Boot , I can get into Open Firmware with the little 
>button at the front of the mac (poked in with a pen, it's actually a 
>G4 Digital Audio) that prompt didn't work in that.
>
>I tried to reset nvram before with the prompt:
> 
>reset-nvram (return)
> 
>set-defaults (return)
> 
>reset-all       (return)
>which used to take me into the master by default but now that I put 
>the upgrade on no way.
>
>I'm wondering "have I burnt out the drives upon installing 10.4.11" 
>???????????WTF?????????????WTFK??????
>
>On Saturday, February 28, 2009, at 02:13AM, "gifutiger" 
><gifutiger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Greetings ( + )!( + )
>
>>give it a try, it was stated that it might be helpful when you 
>>couldn't get your system to boot.
>>
>>1. Start-up in single user mode
>>2. enter the following:
>>
>>sudo nvram boot-args=""
>>reboot
>
>>On Feb 28, 2009, at 12:12 AM, Umar Stone wrote:
>
>>>  I decided hey I'll try and Download 10.4.11 for my master since 
>>>  maybe it only being 10.4.10, while the SATA was 11, could have 
>>>  caused some incompatibility issue
>>>
>>>  After trying to load it up on my Master drive (the working one) it 
>>>  crashed in the process and now the whole computer Master and Slave 
>>>  won't open past startup; the blue band won't even start loading up, 
>>>  PRAM and Option or Firmware resets wont do a thing.
>>>
>>>  So I figured it out Tiger 10.4.11 Combo PPC - KILLED MY MAC
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