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blaketv - May 10, 2005 - 3:08 pm
For some reason, when booting I get the gray apple screen but no spinning gear. Running Disk Utility and DiskWarrior shows all is well but I still can't get past the apple screen.
Even after letting it sit for several minutes, I still can't get the gear.
Also, on another system it's booting OK but the goes to the darwin interface (console) when it hits the login window.
Help...
Blake
Even after letting it sit for several minutes, I still can't get the gear.
Also, on another system it's booting OK but the goes to the darwin interface (console) when it hits the login window.
Help...
Blake
Go3iverson - May 11, 2005 - 10:50 am
Have you tried running fsck in single user mode?
Try rebooting the machine and hold down the Apple and S keys. When you get a command prompt, after all the text stops writing to your screen, type
fsck -yf
and hit return. If it comes back clean, we'll try something else. If it comes back with errors, run it again until it comes back clean. Then type reboot and hit return to restart yorur machine, which you should always do after modifying the file system.
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Michael Dhaliwal, ACSA
www.district13computing.com
Try rebooting the machine and hold down the Apple and S keys. When you get a command prompt, after all the text stops writing to your screen, type
fsck -yf
and hit return. If it comes back clean, we'll try something else. If it comes back with errors, run it again until it comes back clean. Then type reboot and hit return to restart yorur machine, which you should always do after modifying the file system.
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Michael Dhaliwal, ACSA
www.district13computing.com
blaketv - May 11, 2005 - 6:28 pm
Actually ran it after I found that suggestion from one of the other posts. Tried everything I could think of. Right now, the disk will mount when booting from my other drive and have backed up the offender. (Kids, drives are finally cheap... buy a big one and use that wimpy stock drive that came with your mac as your emergency system drive. You'll thank yourself later.)
Will reformat, then reload the drive with Carbon Copy Cloner and see if that works.
Still, this is a strange problem and has happened before on another system. Usually after some kind of directory error. I've used this trick before to repair other "unfixable" problems but never tried it on this quirk.
Any suggestions if it doesn't work short of reloading the system?
Blake
P.S. - This site is great! Never knew about the apple-s trick and picked up a few more for the arsenal. Keep up the good fight!
B
Will reformat, then reload the drive with Carbon Copy Cloner and see if that works.
Still, this is a strange problem and has happened before on another system. Usually after some kind of directory error. I've used this trick before to repair other "unfixable" problems but never tried it on this quirk.
Any suggestions if it doesn't work short of reloading the system?
Blake
P.S. - This site is great! Never knew about the apple-s trick and picked up a few more for the arsenal. Keep up the good fight!
B
blaketv - May 11, 2005 - 8:58 pm
New...
Didn't work. Same result. Forced to reload system (Archive Install, with preferences).
Time to start moving files from the old system.
Any ideas, still have archive.
B
Didn't work. Same result. Forced to reload system (Archive Install, with preferences).
Time to start moving files from the old system.
Any ideas, still have archive.
B
Go3iverson - May 12, 2005 - 11:10 am
If this was my machine and I had a little time, this is what I'd do.
I'd replicate my user data to an external drive. Pretty much everything in your home directory (~/).
I'd low level format the internal drive, zero fill type deal. After the zero fill is complete, use the system install CD to check the drive. I'd then install the OS from CD, with all the updates.
Create your account again. Use command line to replicate your user data back off the firewire drive to your user home folder again. If you just want a down and dirty way, simply use ditto -rsrc to move your data and chown -R to take ownership of all the data again.
You'll have to re-install all of your third party apps, but this is the best way to get a 'clean' system back. If you want, even use the system a little before replicating your user data back and installing your apps. See if you can further pinpoint a software issue that way.
If your machine still bombs after that, I'd say start looking at your hardware, unfortunately.
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Michael Dhaliwal, ACSA
www.district13computing.com
I'd replicate my user data to an external drive. Pretty much everything in your home directory (~/).
I'd low level format the internal drive, zero fill type deal. After the zero fill is complete, use the system install CD to check the drive. I'd then install the OS from CD, with all the updates.
Create your account again. Use command line to replicate your user data back off the firewire drive to your user home folder again. If you just want a down and dirty way, simply use ditto -rsrc to move your data and chown -R to take ownership of all the data again.
You'll have to re-install all of your third party apps, but this is the best way to get a 'clean' system back. If you want, even use the system a little before replicating your user data back and installing your apps. See if you can further pinpoint a software issue that way.
If your machine still bombs after that, I'd say start looking at your hardware, unfortunately.
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Michael Dhaliwal, ACSA
www.district13computing.com
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