help!! 10.3 wont boot up damnit!

hypoluxa

yea I installed 10.3 last night with no error messages as far firmware needed to be updated etc, and now 10.3 will start up with the grey apple screen and then after a long while the apple turns into a circle slash, like the "ghost busters" logo.. and it just sits in limbo. with no error messages. Heeeelllllppppp! this sux!



Im on a B&W G3 300 mhz 512ram, I upgraded from 10.2.8

amorph

I'm going to move this to Genius Bar, where the helpful gnomes are...

alcimedes

have you tried booting off the 10.3 CD yet?



what that symbol means is that your computer can't find any system software.

hypoluxa

yea the cd works , thats how i installed 10.3 from the boot disk, its just after I installed it and restarted , the circle slash happened

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Originally posted by alcimedes

have you tried booting off the 10.3 CD yet?



what that symbol means is that your computer can't find any system software.

alcimedes

i'd try to reinstall the software from the CD. odds are that will fix the problem.



do you have access to any other Macs? maybe something with firewire. you could try and put one in target disk mode.

hypoluxa

Alright Ill try and reinstall the os, see if that works, "fingers crossed"

Quote:

Originally posted by alcimedes

i'd try to reinstall the software from the CD. odds are that will fix the problem.



do you have access to any other Macs? maybe something with firewire. you could try and put one in target disk mode.

alcimedes

let us know.

hypoluxa

reinstall worked thanx! alls well!