[Johnbmx26]

Hey,
I'm not exactly sure if this is it, but this is what I'm guessing?
The monitor is all black on my ibook whenever I turn it on. I can still hear everything running, but I can't see anything. I thought maybe the screen died out, so I got a firewire cable and connected my ibook to the imac, and all of a sudden the screen came back to life again. (showing the firewire symbol).. But whenever I do connect it, on my imac, I get the beach ball and cannot click the ibooks harddrive.

I also tried putting the OS X install disc in the ibook and booting it up from there, but it does not work. But if I try to mount the ibook's hard drive on my imac again, I get the beach ball, but the OS X install software starts up too. This is a dead hard drive right? If so, anyone know the replacement cost? I have a friend who can install the hard drive for me, but I'm not sure if that's the only problem. I'm no longer under warranty.

John

[Johnbmx26]

ah, just tried resetting the PRAM.
Now my screen works.. but I get an error "launchd: can't exec /bin/sh for single user: Exec format error'"
So now, I'm booting from the install CD. It took awhile and a folder with a question mark showed up on the start up screen for a little while . It's installing now, and hopefully it'll work all the way through.

Any ideas what had happened? What does the folder with the question mark mean?

[Cold Warrior]

It means it can't find a valid OS to boot.