HOWTO: Boot into safe mode (10.2 or later)

[eric2006]

what about if you don't get a chime?

Then, just use your judgement. Assuming the loading screen is coming up eventually, probably press in a few seconds after power-up, in my case, it's about 3 seconds.. I am not sure how much this matters, but Apple says it does.

[knatex]

- safe mode start up: takes some time, gets to mac osx screen with blue progress bar which goes to 100% and then hangs forever, while coninuing to be animated

- single-user mode startup 01: diskutil info / --gave bus error

- fsck –fy --gave overlapped extent allocation files, volume bitmap needs minor repair, invalid free block count

- only 4 files were over lapped, I removed each with the rm command

- ran fsck –fy again and it gave no problems (vol has been repaired or something)

- safe mode start up does identical thing still

- regular startup does same thing

what can i do?
(not a unix guy - just follwoing instructions)

[eric2006]

At this point, it might be best to go into target disk mode, backup, then re-install. (and start a new topic)