After 10.4.10 update G5 XServe is completely unresponsive

I rebooted after doing today's 10.4.10 OSX Server update. Now the Xserve won't boot. I can boot from the install disc, run disc utilities, all seems fine. I can mount the boot volumes via Terminal, etc. No problems at all. But when I try to boot I just get stuck on the initial apple logo screen. The spinning disc never appears. After a while the fans go on high. I've let it sit for hours and nothing happens. When I check the system logs there are no new entries since I ran the update. Any ideas? I'm really out of things to try...
thanks,
douglas
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Your in a place that's kind of hard to troubleshoot. The apple screen comes up when the PRAM is handing the boot over to BootX so it can load the kernel and then Unix and then you get the blue screen when the Apple stuff loads.
The logs haven't updated since before the update probably because the system has never booted to the point where logging starts.
Get a keyboard on the machine and try booting while holding down the CMD+S keys. That will bring you into single user mode, which would mean that the kernel and Unix loaded. I don't think you'll get there, but it's worth a try.
If that doesn't work, you could try booting off the Install CD and checking the logs to make sure that the update went okay, check to make sure that you have a kernel and BootX, run bless. If it's a PPC machine, you could consider booting into Open Firmware and resetting it, that's just a general principles suggestion, but if it's got bad settings, it may not be able to load BootX.
You may want to hire some help, or even reinstall selecting the upgrade option, so no data is harmed (hopefully).
Roger

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