[G4] G4 shut-down woes

[CDT]

On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Peter Webster wrote:

> Dear Dan:
>
> I tried the Open Firmware resets as per your instructions, and when  
> the old Sawtooth rebooted, I got the question mark/folder icon.
>
> I shut down. Went away. Had a sandwich. Wept. Came back. Booted up:
>
> Question mark/folder icon, blinking.
>
> Then,
>
> THE APPLE...
>
> Did some work, shut down: no problem (so far.)
>
> THANK YOU!

You're welcome, Peter.  Glad you had the moxie to pursue some of the  
other little tricks instead of giving up when it didn't boot properly  
the first time.  Sounds like it had a little trouble finding a viable  
OS (that's what the blinking question mark means).  You might want to  
check what drive you have set as the startup drive.  MacJanitor runs  
the Chron processes (unix maintenance stuff that runs early in the  
morning if you leave your machine always on - never runs if you  
don't).  I run it 1 or 2x a month.  Apple jack is good for cleaning  
up OS troubles.  A little regular maint will keep the old machine  
humming along for a while yet.   FWIW, I'm still using a Rev B iMac I  
got new in 1998!

Dan