[blackbird_1.0]

i'm having this problem w/ panther hangnig at startu on my ibook

i was browsing these forums when my computer froze up, so i used a key combo to power it down, so now when i restart it just sits there at the logo, spinning, doing who knows what, should i just let it sit there for 30 + minutes or is there something i should do?

[pat++]

you may want to try to boot in verbose mode (hold command-V during startup) to see where it's stuck...

[fulmer]

just boot from the panther cd-rom (disc 1, afaik) and run disk utility. If that doesn't fix your problems you may want to consider reinstalling (an easy chore on the Mac, and you won't lose any data).

[bergy]

For Your info ...

From Apple .. Troubleshooting Startup Issues
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464