[Ham-Mac] Need some OSX help!

[Tim McLeod]

Sounds like a corrupt file system
This article may help you troubleshoot it
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Good Luck & 73

Tim, VE3TZS


on 7/8/05 8:51 PM, Scott Galbraith at scottg at n3ok.com wrote:

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> I recently sent my daughter's titanium G4 in for repair of the display hinges
> (after market company on the west coast with good recommendations.)
> 
> After it was overnighted back early this week, it would start up okay then
> started bogging down and lots of error messages were generated when she tried
> to run programs. Then, suddenly around the middle of the week, it stopped
> booting into the OS desktop and insists on booting to a black screen with a
> CLI login prompt and she cannot log in as it will not accept her username,
> etc.
> 
> She's bringing it home this evening some time so I can look at it. Has been
> years since I have used Unix (on a Sun) so I will be working to remember
> things. I have TechTool 4 CD and am planning to see if I can get the computer
> to start up off that.
> 
> Anyway, wanted to check and see if anyone had encountered a similar problem
> under OSX and maybe there is something "simple" that was reset or left
> configured improperly by the repair company - or is there a key or button that
> would produce this type of startup when held down (thinking somthing may be
> stuck?)  Can any of you pros offer any starting suggestions for straightening
> things out?
> 
> Thanks, - Scott