[P1] OS X Help Please

[Brian Hugh Warren]

Try booting from the f/w hard drive. See what happens. I had a similar 
instance with my wife's G4 tower, I reinstalled just the system 
(maintaining my user prefs) and it worked after that. Sounds like some 
bad voodoo happened to your System folder. If booting from the f/w hard 
drive works, maybe you can just swipe the system folder from it for 
your ibook.

good luck, I hope you get some good results...

bw


On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 03:06  PM, Luke Hinman wrote:

> O.k. so i was messing around with theme switcher in 10.2.4 and 
> rebooted and
> now all i get is a blue screen... it occasionally flashes the desktop
> picture after the blue screen has been on a while. it starts with a 
> chime
> and gray apple and the rotating dots of os X. then it show the boot 
> screen
> with blue bar loading across then blue screen then desktop picture 
> flashes
> occasionally. i only have my os x developer tools disk and maybe a 
> system
> folder on a portable f/w hard drive. i am typing on dell x 200 right 
> now
> (ugh). my broke machine is new ibook 700. restore cd's are not with me.
> thanks.