[X4U] help, iMac G5 will not boot

[Jim Scott]

On Feb 4, 2008, at 7:58 AM, Kansas Territory 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

I've fixed a number of OS X 10.4 Macs with this hanging-while-booting  
problem simply by booting from a Disk Warrior disk and running the  
application. What Disk Warrior usually finds and fixes is incorrect  
volume information, and a handful of faulty icon stuff. This usually  
is caused by improper shutdowns while programs are still running, in  
my experience.

HTH,
Jim Scott