I'm an apple newbie, so bare with me. Several months ago I purchased a PowerPC G4 with Mac OS Tiger 10.4 install(no software). It worked fine until my PPC installed the latest updates. After a reboot, I got a black screen asking me for a login name, I have none. I have tried everything to get my PPC back to normal to no avail. I even purchased retail software & restore disk for a PPC g4 but the optical drive will not read any of the disk. With or without the disk my PPC boots up into the Tiger OSX intro. and as far as I have gotten was the "select the keyboard" and it freezes. So I can not restore or even do a fresh install. Can someone help me?
Do you have an external optical drive? It should be able to boot the Tiger DVD from that. As far as clearing the password, when the welcome screen appears from booting the disc there is a menu item to clear the password.
I don't know how much this helps....
Yeah, that is weird. If it requires password now, it should have required a password to do the update, I would think.
If you have the retail DVD, and a DVD reader, you can either boot from the DVD and find the menu item to reset the password, or reinstall the system completely. I think I would first set a new password, and then reinstall the system. I think there is an option to "Archive and Reinstall" or something like that, to keep your old stuff but to just install a fresh copy of the system.
Keep us posted.
