[G4] (G4) Phy Mount Trouble on me

[Richard Klein]

Umar,
   I'm stumped, but it does look like you have some failing hardware
somewhere in your system.  You don't have another G4 that you can try
swapping parts with, do you?

-- 
Rich

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Umar Stone <umartisan at mac.com> wrote:
> Hello to anyone out there who has helped me before, I fixed my startup troubles a few days ago ("10.4.11 Killed my Mac") a couple of RAID problems and a total reboot helped.
> But now, my G4 Digital Audio just today won't open past login, it goes into a verbose type window saying something like this :
>
> (the date & my computers name) getty:/dev/console:operation not supported by device
>
> AppleRTL8961Ethernet: Phy wait for AutoNegotiation TIMEOUT
>
> xpf bootsupported: could not find mount point for hd
>
> Then it blanks out again and goes back to login and then repeats this message in verbose
> I understand that phy issues and mount point problems can be resolved but how?
> my poor baby G4 phy all the trouble?