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Hi all, I have a Powerbook G4 running OSX 10.3.2, and I am having a problem!!!
Basically when I try to start up the machine, it goes to the white screen with the gray apple, then almost as soon as the progress wheel underneath the gray apple starts spinning the screen switches to black and I get the following prompt in white text in the top left corner:
localhost :/ root#
I can start the machine up in safe mode by holding down the shift key, but this doesn't allow me any access to certain things like my wireless internet or bluetooth, and obviously isn't ideal anyway. I thought it might be OK if I just performed a restart from safe mode but this just returns me to the black screen.
A friend who was trying to help me over the phone yesterday when I couldn't get online told me I might be in 'single user mode', but I can't find any way to exit this - and indeed the advice I could find in the system preferences help basically says if you start up in safe mode and then do a restart as normal then the machine should return to normal but this isn't proving to be the case
Apologies for the long and boring message but I thought I'd try and give you guys as much info as poss. from the off.
Anyone got any ideas?
Cheers
Gaz
Basically when I try to start up the machine, it goes to the white screen with the gray apple, then almost as soon as the progress wheel underneath the gray apple starts spinning the screen switches to black and I get the following prompt in white text in the top left corner:
localhost :/ root#
I can start the machine up in safe mode by holding down the shift key, but this doesn't allow me any access to certain things like my wireless internet or bluetooth, and obviously isn't ideal anyway. I thought it might be OK if I just performed a restart from safe mode but this just returns me to the black screen.
A friend who was trying to help me over the phone yesterday when I couldn't get online told me I might be in 'single user mode', but I can't find any way to exit this - and indeed the advice I could find in the system preferences help basically says if you start up in safe mode and then do a restart as normal then the machine should return to normal but this isn't proving to be the case
Apologies for the long and boring message but I thought I'd try and give you guys as much info as poss. from the off.
Anyone got any ideas?
Cheers
Gaz
