I'll try to make a long story short: the PBG4 referenced above froze on me yesterday after installing new Apple Security and iTune*update*. When I went to restart, I got to the blue screen and then nothing -- no swirly ball, zip. Left it to brood to itself for a half hour -- nothing. Tried a couple more times, same result. Then I tried starting up with the original Tiger install disk, holding down the "C" key. Same result, only *now* I couldn't get the*Tiger install disk out of the slot loader. Tried everything I knew to get the disc out, including the long paperclip (turns out it was what I "didn't* know that was the trick: holding down the trackpad key while starting up -- I discovered *that* just this morning).*
So I had what I thought was a clever thought: I hooked up the ailing PBG4 to my other PBG4 with a firewire cable, and started the ailing one up in Target Mode. I diddled around with no satisfactory result. At some point, I thought it would be a swell idea to just yank & trash the ailing PB's entire system folder, in the hopes that when it restarted, it would HAVE to defer to the Tiger install disk that was still stuck in the drive. Uhhh, interesting concept, no joy in execution. Then I tried a system migration from my healthy PB to the Target Mode PB. Every time I tried, the Target Mode, systemless PB was all for it, but first I had to put IT in Migration "receive mode," which required a restart -- with, of course, the "T" held down so it would open in Target Mode, which by now was the *only* way it would open. The Migration Assistant window on the Target PB kept waiting to see drive(s) mount, but it never happened. I gave up to go watch Fringe.
So here I am with a systemless PB. I can get all the data off it using Target Mode, but I can't seem to get it*to*restart. I've tried putting the Tiger install disk in again and holding down the "C" key while restarting, with absolutely no joy whatsoever. Am I missing some secret trick here? I want to clear off the disk, reinitialize it, and reinstall everything, as even before THIS disaster it was getting flaky -- the last time I ran Maintenance on it, Maintenance went through its S.M.A.R.T. check and verify, and declared the disc damaged, though Maintenance would still perform all its usual functions of re-setting permissions, etc.
Where do I go from here? Any and all help would be staggeringly appreciated.
Bart Brown
*BTW, a quick check of Apple's PBG4 Support Discussion Forum this morning shows this is NOT an isolated problem with Apple's latest security update -- many TiBook owners suffered the same fate as I did.
PBG4 Titanium 15" DVI OS X (10.4.11) 1GHz, 1GB, 60GBHD, SuperDrive
So I had what I thought was a clever thought: I hooked up the ailing PBG4 to my other PBG4 with a firewire cable, and started the ailing one up in Target Mode. I diddled around with no satisfactory result. At some point, I thought it would be a swell idea to just yank & trash the ailing PB's entire system folder, in the hopes that when it restarted, it would HAVE to defer to the Tiger install disk that was still stuck in the drive. Uhhh, interesting concept, no joy in execution. Then I tried a system migration from my healthy PB to the Target Mode PB. Every time I tried, the Target Mode, systemless PB was all for it, but first I had to put IT in Migration "receive mode," which required a restart -- with, of course, the "T" held down so it would open in Target Mode, which by now was the *only* way it would open. The Migration Assistant window on the Target PB kept waiting to see drive(s) mount, but it never happened. I gave up to go watch Fringe.
So here I am with a systemless PB. I can get all the data off it using Target Mode, but I can't seem to get it*to*restart. I've tried putting the Tiger install disk in again and holding down the "C" key while restarting, with absolutely no joy whatsoever. Am I missing some secret trick here? I want to clear off the disk, reinitialize it, and reinstall everything, as even before THIS disaster it was getting flaky -- the last time I ran Maintenance on it, Maintenance went through its S.M.A.R.T. check and verify, and declared the disc damaged, though Maintenance would still perform all its usual functions of re-setting permissions, etc.
Where do I go from here? Any and all help would be staggeringly appreciated.
Bart Brown
*BTW, a quick check of Apple's PBG4 Support Discussion Forum this morning shows this is NOT an isolated problem with Apple's latest security update -- many TiBook owners suffered the same fate as I did.
PBG4 Titanium 15" DVI OS X (10.4.11) 1GHz, 1GB, 60GBHD, SuperDrive