[Sarah31]

hi people i had some problems while working in netinfo today and lost the ability to open run anything or logout. so unfortunately all that was left for me to do was ctrl-command -power-on. but now the boot hangs on either "waiting for network file system" (odd considering i am not aware of running any nfs shares) or starting login window.

no other boot option works except single user mode. and single user-mode is fine but i am not sure what to look at when i am there.

oh and i cannot reinstall either because the install volume has a exclamation point on it (in a yellow warning triangle)

any help would be most welcome (hopefully without wiping the drive)

[tobster]

I have a similar thing. I was going back to Jaguar (for a reason ) and after installing the first CD the startup now just hangs on the apple logo at the very start. I did a clean install but nothing works. Now panther doesn't even work. Only thing that works is OS 9 :S

It starts up fine into the install disks but not when installed on the internal hard drive. Starting up in either Jaguar og Panther on an external drive works fine.

Computer is PowerBook G4 667 DVI, 30 gb drive, 512 ram.

- tobs

[MickS]

Be patient. If you leave it for long enough it will probably boot.

I had this problem when I enabled the local iDisk copy. I rebooted and had the symptoms that you described. I was all ready to reinstall Panther but just left it. Eventually the startup window disappeared and my background appeared, then slowly everything else showed up. After 30 minutes or so I had a machine that was responsive. I turned off the local iDisk copy and rebooted and it came up in seconds.

This was on a 17" PB connected via Airport to an original basestation not 6 feet away from where I was running it.