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Hi there,
I have a imac g4 1.25 ghz running os x 10.4.10 (or maybe 10.4.11 I'm not sure)
I've had it since november and it has been faultless until last night.
Last night I added broadband to it, using a g3 mobile internet modem, and tried to share the printer, ext hard drive and the internet with my pc.
I also backed up everything on the internal hard drive to an external hard drive.
THe mac began to bahave badly after this, it wouldn't print and kept locking up so I had to keep force quitting programs and restarting the mac.
Now it cannot boot up osx. Here's what happens. If anyone can help I'd be ever so grateful.
When I turn it on it makes the startup noise, does the first grey and blue screens as if starting to boot up normally and then enters something I (as someone more used to pc's) would call dos.
It whizzes through a few pages and then leaves me with this on the screen.
(4 lines of)
Hub in appple extended usb keyboard: family specific matching fails
(15 lines of)
apple extended usb keyboard: family specific matching fails
(2 lines of)
IOUSB Interface: Family Specific matching fails
(15 Lines of)
Apple Optical USB mouse:family specific matching fails
IOUSB Interface: Family Specific matching fails
Security auditing service present
BSM Auditing present
Disabled
rooting via boot uuid from / chaan:400B26B4-44FD-3318-947c-5271D5524001
Waiting on <dict ID="0">key>IOPProviderclass</key> <string ID="1">IO Rescources</string><key> IORescourceMatch</key> <string ID="2">boot-uuidmedia</string></dict>
Got boot device = IOService:/MacR15C2PE/Pci@f4000000/applemacriscpci/ata-6@D/ApplekauiaATA/ATADeviceNub@0/IOATABlockStoragedriver/IOATABlockstoragedevice/IOBlockstoragedriver/ST380
011A Media/IO ApplePartitionScheme/Apple_HFS_Untitled_1@3
BSD root:diskOss, major14, minor2
hfs mount: enabling extended security on imac.
Single user boot -- fsck not done.
root device is mounted read-only
If you want to make modifications to files:
/sbin/fsck -fg
/sbin/mount -uw/
If you wish to boot the system but stay in single user mode:
sh /etc/rc
I've tried typing sh /etc/rc because that seemed to make sense, it zipped off a few more lines and nothing good happened.
I've typed help as well and that baffled me.
I've been on the internet all morning looking for a solution, but can't find it.
I don't have a copy of any osx disc, but last night, before it died, I ordered 10.5.1 so if I need to delete and re install thats not such a bad thing.
I hope all this code stuff I've typed is useful, it took ages to write.
Thanks for reading through it,
Elma
I have a imac g4 1.25 ghz running os x 10.4.10 (or maybe 10.4.11 I'm not sure)
I've had it since november and it has been faultless until last night.
Last night I added broadband to it, using a g3 mobile internet modem, and tried to share the printer, ext hard drive and the internet with my pc.
I also backed up everything on the internal hard drive to an external hard drive.
THe mac began to bahave badly after this, it wouldn't print and kept locking up so I had to keep force quitting programs and restarting the mac.
Now it cannot boot up osx. Here's what happens. If anyone can help I'd be ever so grateful.
When I turn it on it makes the startup noise, does the first grey and blue screens as if starting to boot up normally and then enters something I (as someone more used to pc's) would call dos.
It whizzes through a few pages and then leaves me with this on the screen.
(4 lines of)
Hub in appple extended usb keyboard: family specific matching fails
(15 lines of)
apple extended usb keyboard: family specific matching fails
(2 lines of)
IOUSB Interface: Family Specific matching fails
(15 Lines of)
Apple Optical USB mouse:family specific matching fails
IOUSB Interface: Family Specific matching fails
Security auditing service present
BSM Auditing present
Disabled
rooting via boot uuid from / chaan:400B26B4-44FD-3318-947c-5271D5524001
Waiting on <dict ID="0">key>IOPProviderclass</key> <string ID="1">IO Rescources</string><key> IORescourceMatch</key> <string ID="2">boot-uuidmedia</string></dict>
Got boot device = IOService:/MacR15C2PE/Pci@f4000000/applemacriscpci/ata-6@D/ApplekauiaATA/ATADeviceNub@0/IOATABlockStoragedriver/IOATABlockstoragedevice/IOBlockstoragedriver/ST380
011A Media/IO ApplePartitionScheme/Apple_HFS_Untitled_1@3
BSD root:diskOss, major14, minor2
hfs mount: enabling extended security on imac.
Single user boot -- fsck not done.
root device is mounted read-only
If you want to make modifications to files:
/sbin/fsck -fg
/sbin/mount -uw/
If you wish to boot the system but stay in single user mode:
sh /etc/rc
I've tried typing sh /etc/rc because that seemed to make sense, it zipped off a few more lines and nothing good happened.
I've typed help as well and that baffled me.
I've been on the internet all morning looking for a solution, but can't find it.
I don't have a copy of any osx disc, but last night, before it died, I ordered 10.5.1 so if I need to delete and re install thats not such a bad thing.
I hope all this code stuff I've typed is useful, it took ages to write.
Thanks for reading through it,
Elma