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Apple Security Update		Aug 13 2009

OINCE  This update on a g4 imac was NOT able to complete and put into the trash to try later.

I attempted to restart to retry and got stuck on the grey apple screen.

I was able to boot from Tiger install dvd and run disk utility to repair permissions and disk. Still not able to boot from hard drive.

Booted again from Tiger install dvd and set startup drive to os9. Was able to boot os9 and noticed the time was off. Figured the eight year old battery may have given up. Replaced the pram battery.

Startup from HD still stalls at grey apple screen.

Sometimes I can boot from dvd other times it just ejects. Am trying to do a archive and install 10.4.

Is it a bad update?

Any ideas?

Anyone else stuck like this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

r  
(Version 2009-004)

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Apple Security Update		Aug 19 2009

ACDEGUZMAN  I'm having the same issue, I applied the update then the system rebooted. The desktop took forever to load and had the spinning ball every time I moved the mouse. After it hung for an hour I forced reboot and was stuck on the grey Apple screen. It sounds like the hard drive went bad, did this update cause this? System worked fine before. Drive is gone beyond software repair (disk utility, techtool, even fsck). Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

I'm guessing it was just time, since it happened on my original 160GB harddrive.

Powermac G5 Dual 2.0 6GB RAM, 10.4.11  
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