[Timan]

This morning I reformated my ibook and installed panther, it installed fine, and then booted into panther as normal, ran the updates, restarted again and then it came back fine again. I then restarted it and now right after the apple logo shows I get some dos like screen, I am unable to boot off the cd to install osx again what do i do? :S

Says IOKit Component Version 7.0 at the top

If i let it sit for a min at this dos window it says

localhost:/ root# ASC:rWPM Warning: Couldn't find IOPlatformMonitor

[andreas_g4]

What du you mean by "unable to boot from CD"? If no Open Firmware protection is enabled, you should be able to boot from other devices by pressing "c" (CD) or "option" (other devices). You can disable the OF protection by holding command+option+o+f during startup. Then enter "setenv security-mode none" (without the ").

[Timan]

Apple told me to type in Exit and that seemed to fix the prob, was worrying my arse off..

Thanks though prob solved.

[ChadC]

I had the same type of problem with my iBook(500) after I installed Panther. I ended up targeting the drive from my Mac and reinstalling Panther then running diskwarrior and all of the Panther utilities, and then it ran fine. If I woulda just known to type 'Exit'. O well!

At least you got it fixed. I hate that worrying feeling to.

-Chad

[ccsccs7]

A workmate of mine had a similar problem with her (or her family) PC. Baby decided to pound on the keyboard and restarted the computer into DOS mode. I did a search and "exit" was one of the solutions...