G4 no longer booting under 10.4.7

Question

When using the startup disk or normal booting and holding command-v, this is what i get,
Stand true slicing quantity is 10000 us
VM_page
Mig_table
Color video console
IO Kit component version 6.0
Roon (rc builder)
IO device tree support done
Recroding startup extensions
Copyright info
Using 1966 Buffer headers and 1966 cluster IO buffer headers (last line-freezes here)
That is it. all white text on a black screen and if i let it sit for three days,it will sit there with the same screen. any ideas from you code readers out there ?

Answer 1

All I can add to this is that based on my years of experience with oder Mac and OS 9.1 I found that when it would not load past the smiling face that you either had an extension issue, or a hardware issue. When you boot from the 9.1 CD and hold down the space bar it should boot up into the extension manager. Once it does that you might try disabling an extension that is not needed. If you had some old PCI cards installed that are now not there then there may be an extension that it trying to load to run the card and because the card is not there the extension cannot do what it needs to and may be preventing the boot process from completing. If you can get it to boot try running disk first aid and see what happens.
What were you doing when this problem started? Had you just loaded any new applications? Did you have power failure?
One other thing, make sure you remove all peripheral devices except the keyboard, mouse and monitor when troubleshooting. Disconnect the printer and any external drives.
If you can't get it to boot from a CD or any other drive then it could be a hardware problem that may require a trip to a service facility.