#Toast for mac g4 10.3.9 mac os x

Unfortunately, your disk probably doesn’t look good. Every time you boot without shutting down properly, and once every 20 or so “clean” reboots, the fsck program analyzes the disk to ensure everything looks good. The fsck program runs disk consistency checks similar to Disk Utility and other fancy applications, but at the command line. To check your hard disk, you need to run a program on the command line (where you are when you stop the boot sequence in single user mode) called fsck (pronounced “eff-ess-check” by Unix cognoscenti). I’m only going to address that last scenario, as I bet that’s what’s wrong. One of three things can occur: it’ll reboot and go into full GUI mode as if nothing was wrong (and perhaps nothing is wrong!), it’ll reboot and go back to single-user mode, or it’ll try to progress by scanning your hard disk for errors and fail with some horrible errors. If nothing’s significantly wrong, it might be acting weird so a first test would be to type reboot at the prompt and see what happens. You can force a Mac to do this by holding down the Command (cloverleaf) and S keys on boot up.

#Toast for mac g4 10.3.9 mac os x

What’s happening with your Mac OS X Panther PowerBook is that it’s booting into single-user mode, rather than automatically moving through the different init states into multi-user, full GUI, network mode. While your computer doesn’t heal in the same way that your body does, the situation you’re in should be recoverable. This sounds like a terrible situation and I’m certainly sorry to hear about your auto accident.