[X4U] help, iMac G5 will not boot

[Anthony Bailey]

Have you tried booting it up with the system software disk and running disk
utility? That should either fix it or let you know more info about the
problem. Next step would be to try Diskwarrior or just wipe and re-install.
This is a good reason to have an external bootable firewire hard drive so
that when you have problems, you can boot up with this, and then repair or
back up the internal hard drive.
Tony 


On 2/4/08 9:58 AM, "Kansas Territory" <kansast at mac.com> wrote:

> Have a 17 inch iMac G5.     Running OSX 10.4
> Try to boot it up.. I get the gray Apple and the Spinning wheel.  But
> nothing happens beyond that.
> 
> I booted up into Single user mode.  Ran the fsck  that reported back
> an error of some kind, said it was fixing it.. etc.
> 
> I ran fsck again. this time it reported NO errors and that the drive
> was fine.
> 
> Still when I try to boot up this computer, Gray Apple, spinning wheel.
> 
> Any suggestions  ?
> 
> Kansast
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