Last night I tried installing iTunes and the laest Tiger update through Software Update. When the Tiger update started, the computer seemed to freeze and I got the rainbow spinning ball cursor. Well, being the impatient idiot that I am, I force quit Software Update and planned to do it again later before I turned the computer off.
Well.... being the forgetful idiot that I am, I completely forgot, and the next day when I tried turning it on, it froze on the blue screen with the white OS X loading window. This happens every time I turn it on. The blue aqua bar does not load at all, and the rainbow cursor just appears.
It seems that the latest update begun to install but because I forgot to go back and install the whole thing, something has gone wrong.
I know that there is a way to manually eject the disk tray with keyboard commands, but I can't remember how, And none of my searches on this forum are turning up any results. I also know there's a way to boot from my Tiger installer CD but again I can't remember the keyboard commands.
If anyone could please tell me how to do these things, or if you know of another way that I can install the latest update or boot from software update, it would be greatly appreciated. I lost everything on my hard drive last year due to an invalid node structure problem, and if it happens again... well I#m sure you can imagine how much of an inconvenience it would be.
Thanks a lot to anyone who can help, I'm on a friend's computer right now and I'll keep checking back.
Well.... being the forgetful idiot that I am, I completely forgot, and the next day when I tried turning it on, it froze on the blue screen with the white OS X loading window. This happens every time I turn it on. The blue aqua bar does not load at all, and the rainbow cursor just appears.
It seems that the latest update begun to install but because I forgot to go back and install the whole thing, something has gone wrong.
I know that there is a way to manually eject the disk tray with keyboard commands, but I can't remember how, And none of my searches on this forum are turning up any results. I also know there's a way to boot from my Tiger installer CD but again I can't remember the keyboard commands.
If anyone could please tell me how to do these things, or if you know of another way that I can install the latest update or boot from software update, it would be greatly appreciated. I lost everything on my hard drive last year due to an invalid node structure problem, and if it happens again... well I#m sure you can imagine how much of an inconvenience it would be.
Thanks a lot to anyone who can help, I'm on a friend's computer right now and I'll keep checking back.