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Recovering from blue screen login problems
Authored by: gordk on Apr 20, '03 02:05:18PM

sorry for the beginner's question but how are you able to enter any commands when you get the blue screen? i've tried to reboot in various ways but always end up getting the initial gray apple / moving circle screen followed by the blue screen...and then it stops.

I can't even insert the original system disk i got with my pbook as i've got a game cd already in place...any suggestions?

tx



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Recovering from blue screen login problems
Authored by: GaelicWizard on Apr 21, '03 02:49:24AM

hold down apple-s to boot 'single user' but if you don't know how to do this already, then you almost certainly DON'T want to try it without some serious research and/or help.

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Recovering from blue screen login problems
Authored by: st3v3n on Apr 21, '03 07:27:22AM

to eject the cd hold down either the mouse button or trackpad
button when power-on and keep it pressed until cd ejects.

You can then put in whatever cd you want. I've not had the
blue-screen prob yet and hopefully wont but an alternative
solution maybe to boot from a firewire hard drive. i use carbon-
copy cloner wekly to copy me entire tibook hd to a bootable
firewire drive which i then startup from when i need to change
something in os x on the pb.



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Recovering from blue screen login problems
Authored by: frederw on Apr 27, '03 01:28:04AM

I'm in exactly this situation, with a few frustrating complications.

Holding down the mouse button during powerup is not ejecting the CD. Ironically, it's a CD I was burning as a backup. Are there any other ways to eject a CD from a sick machine?

Holding down command-S is not putting me into single-user mode. Screen goes blue, stays blue, no Unix prompt.

Holding down command-V isn't giving me any of the verbose mode messages.

My next move, unless someone can suggest something better, will be trying to come up in target disk mode and mounting the disk on another Mac.

OS X 10.1, powermac G4. Things were running normally until I woke it up from overnight sleep. I put in my backup CDRW, it didn't show on the desktop, I tried to eject it, nothing happened, I tried rebooting and ever since I've been looking at blue screens. Waiting them out doesn't work, I've left the machine for hours and it hasn't booted.



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Recovering from blue screen login problems
Authored by: frederw on Apr 27, '03 03:14:04AM

Well, never mind. I was hitting the wrong button to do a reset. Machine is up and running now.



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