[muglo] Re: No boot up

Thanks Chris and Scott

The mouse trick worked, now that I think about it that happened with a audio CD 
once and I had to open it that way.  I looked this morning and I had the box 
for OS 10.4 but the DVD was elsewhere so I have a couple of other places I put 
things otherwise I'll downgrade a OS or two till Leopard  ships.

Thanks again

Gerhard

P.S. Yes it is the lampshade iMac, it's main use is e-mail and it also acts as 
print-server.




Thursday, June 14, 2007, at 11:52AM, "Scott Strawbridge" <scotts1@xxxxxxx> 
wrote:
>Hi Gerhard
>This is a "luxo" lamp iMac, yes?
>holding the mouse button down (left button, if it's a 2 button mouse)  
>on startup should open the optical drive. if not, then yes, the  
>paperclip should work.
>If you are unable to repair the drive, I would do an Archive and  
>Install on it, making sure to "preserve user accounts". It's under  
>Options in the Tiger installer
>I highly recommend DiskWarrior if you can afford it ($120 CAN from  
>Mostly Digital). It's saved my butt too many times to count.
>
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>On 14-Jun-07, at 11:33 AM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:
>
>> Hi Scott
>>
>> First I have to find the OS 10.4 disk and then figure out how open  
>> the CD drive, I think this one can be opened with the paperclip  
>> thing it is just not that easy to open the exterior door manually  
>> but it should not be a problem.  The drive seems to work fine, I  
>> copied a couple of files via firewire.  I imagine what I will do is  
>> try to format the drive and then try to do a OS install.  Should  
>> that fail I will attempt to install the OS on the external LaCie  
>> hard drive and see if I can get it to boot from there.  I really  
>> don't want to rip the thing apart to install a new drive and I  
>> doubt the computer is worth paying a technician to do replace the  
>> internal drive.
>>
>> Gerhard
>>
>> On Thursday, June 14, 2007, at 10:38AM, "Scott Strawbridge"  
>> <scotts1@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Can you boot from your system disk and run disk utility from there?
>>> it looks bad.
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>>>
>>>
>>> On 14-Jun-07, at 9:59 AM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:
>>>
>>>> I brought my laptop in and thought that I would run disk utility
>>>> repair on it and that led to an error after 30 seconds or so this is
>>>> the message I got.
>>>> http://mypixel.ca/muglo/disk.jpg
>>>>
>>>> Would my best option be to format the drive and then try to  
>>>> reinstall
>>>> the OS.  I guess I better go look for the disk.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Gerhard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 13, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Scott Strawbridge wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Gerhard
>>>>> can you get it to boot into Single User mode (restart, hold down
>>>>> command S until you get the Unix prompt)?
>>>>> then type fsck -fy and hit return (I'm assuming you're running  
>>>>> Tiger.
>>>>> if not, then type fsck -y)
>>>>> this will run a file system check and repair anything damaged.  
>>>>> If you
>>>>> are running Tiger, fsck will keep running until it comes up with no
>>>>> more errors. If you are running Panther or lower, keep repeat the
>>>>> process until the check reports no errors.
>>>>> when the drive checks as ok, type reboot and hit return.
>>>>> The mac should restart
>>>>> Do you have a copy of DiskWarrior or another repair utility
>>>>> (TechTool, etc.) on hand? if so, try booting from the CD.
>>>>> ----
>>>>> Scott Strawbridge | Graphic Artist
>>>>> scotts1@xxxxxxx
>>>>> http://homepage.mac.com/scotts1
>>>>> http://www.scottstrawbridge.com
>>>>> http://www.liquidphoenixdesign.com
>>>>>
>>>>> msn: scottstrawbridge@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> ichat/aol: scotts1@xxxxxxx
>>>>> yahoo: straws4@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 13-Jun-07, at 12:11 PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This morning we went to boot up our oldest Mac, a G4 800 iMac.   
>>>>>> All
>>>>>> it does is come to a gray screen with the apple logo, the hard-
>>>>>> drive seems to be spinning I can boot to target mode but I don't
>>>>>> have my laptop with me right now so can't confirm that the hard-
>>>>>> drive is o.k.  Any ideas would be appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gerhard
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