[iBook] Installed security update now iBook will not boot

[Robert Crawford]

Closest Apple Store is about a seven hour drive.

On 8/13/06 05:18, "ibooklist2 at matthurst.fastmail.fm"
<ibooklist2 at matthurst.fastmail.fm> wrote:

> I had the same thing - updated my 3.9 G4 iBook, same vintage, and it
> wouldn't boot. Since I discovered this on the way to a meeting round the
> corner from an Apple Store, i took it straight in without fiddling
> around, where they ran a Disk Warrior check.
> 
> Apparently the header volume data on my boot disc was damaged, whatever
> that means, so they did a quick archive and install on the OS X and now
> it's all fine again. So maybe it's time for a quick visit to a genius
> (personally they're why I find the Mac product so much better than PCs -
> byte for byte, you might get more from a PC but 30 minutes in an Apple
> Centre has saved me so much time, money and grief in comparison that I
> know which is better all round value. Ad over).
> 
> They reckoned the most likely cause was a corrupted downloaded, or the
> iBook freezing mid-patch. Since I'd left the iBook to sort itself out
> over night, which is generally fine, I didn't know but it sounded like a
> 'these things happen' deal. I begin to wonder now though, since it's
> happened to someone else.
> 
> Matt