[P1] Booting a Computer

[Mike Beede]

On Sunday, Jun 8, 2003, at 13:26 US/Central, Collin Moore wrote:

>     I have a problem with my p1..my sister's "boy friend" turned my 
> ibook on
> when the battery had said that it was dead. But before it said it will 
> save
> my info and go too sleep.well I shut it down.just as they had pulled up
> after a long trip up here from florida.I had too unload their car
> so I asked him to hold it.he opens it and turns it on.I told him to 
> turn it
> off quick..and he did. so every time I try to boot it It says
> that it did not shut down properly..so it scans my HD..then it 
> continues to
> boot until it says system error "time syncronizer" error type 
> 41..click to
> restart..(click) then it says "time syncronizer" bus error..click to
> restart..so I click it.nothing happens..

If nothing else works, you should be able to start up from CD and
reinstall.  You will need to make sure that your personal data aren't
bounced, though.  If you have no important data, then it is pretty
simple.  If you *do*, then the easiest thing to do (probably) is to
boot off CD and copy your files to an external device (e.g., a
Firewire drive).

Another less serious thing you could try would be to boot to single
user mode and run fsck, but it sounds like this "time synchronizer"
thingus would still fail.  There are instructions for doing this
somewhere in the list archive.

Of course, maybe the pram zapping fixed the problem....

Good luck,

	Mike