[sourcehound]

Originally Posted by Hofuzz

Thanks for your responses. I'm reading up on NVRAM.

But according to this it seems rlogin/ssh to it would be futile:
http://www.macosx.com/content/faq.ph...User-Mode.html

I guess the only chance to do a fsck on it is to get it in single user mode?

Well you also have the option of using a tool like DiskWarrior to rebuild the directory. Starting with 10.4.3 you can run fsck from Disk Utility but can't change the drive, only verify that it's OK or not.

However, there's one option that doesn't really give you any feedback, and that's to book in "Safe" boot mode, by holding down the shift key at startup. This runs a longer and more complete fsck.

But if you want to mess with the directory, you still need to boot in SUM.