<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Have you repaired permissions? If not, boot from your OSX disk, Start disk utility, go into first aid Do verify disk, and repair permissions. My apologies if this has been covered.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Eric</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mikey <mikey1@rcn.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers. <g4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, January 22, 2012 9:22 AM<br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [G4] G4 Boot Time (Applejack)<br> </font> </div> <br>
Thank you Bill.<br><br>I removed the PRAM battery (the one that looks like a tiny soup can) , waited 20 mins, and pressed the PMU button.<br><br>Didnt work.<br><br>My machine wont boot into single user mode, or any other "mode:, it just boots into OSX. I'm wondering if my bios is corrupted. Maybe thats why it takes so long to boot into OSX?<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>