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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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