[iBook] Installed security update now iBook will not boot

[Robert Crawford]

It still is not booting. I tried booting with cmd-v. It gave me no messages.
I tried doing an OS reinstall. I got the message, "there were errors
installing the software." I then ran disk utility and got sever al red
errors with fsck. 

I then tried a delete and reinstall (each of these steps takes several hours
to run) and got the same, 10.3 "there were errors installing the software,"
message. 

The Apple Hardware Test disk is telling me that there is no mass storage
device found (it also failed to see my USB mouse). Is it possible that this
update killed my hard drive?

On 8/11/06 17:53, "Robert Crawford" <robertc at clancrawford.us> wrote:

> I am now in the process of reinstalling the OS.
> 
> On 8/11/06 08:16, "Robert Crawford" <robertc at clancrawford.us> wrote:
> 
>> I went online and got the reset instructions (unplug, remove battery, press
>> reset button). This did not fix the issue. I am still getting a blank grey
>> screen (once I got the black apple).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/11/06 06:58, "Mary H." <maryh at brucetelecom.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> At 8:44 PM -0700 8/10/06, Robert Crawford wrote:
>>> 
>>>>  I installed today's security update. now my G3 600mhz 14" iBook, running
>>>> 10.3.9, will not boot.
>>>> I have had several symptoms throughout the day. A couple of times it sat
>>>> there for about an hour with a blank screen. It came up several times with
>>>> the message to type "mac-boot" ( I may be remembering the syntax wrong) I
>>>> tried that, I also tried typing "shut-down" at that point.
>>>> 
>>>> Later it came up to my background screen bout would do nothing and go no
>>>> further. Now it is sitting there with a OS 9 folder icon in the middle of
>>>> the screen and sometimes the icon alternates between a face and a question
>>>> mark in the middle of the icon.
>>> 
>>> You might start by powering off and then resetting PRAM by holding
>>> down the Apple/Option/P and R keys while starting up. Wait until you
>>> hear 3 start-up chimes and then release the keys.
>>> 
>>> If that doesn't take you you back to a normal state, let us know.
>>> 
>>