In preparing my MacBook currently running Tiger for upgrade to snow leopard I've somehow pooched it.
The booting sound plays but then I get the flashing folder with a question mark.
It won't boot in safe mode. It will boot in single user mode
but only from the install disc.
The weird thing is that from the install disk's disk utility, everything appears normal. The drive appears and both repair and repair permissions run without incident.
Here's what i did to cause this mess:
I attempted to mount and boot from a disk image I'd just created on an external western digital FireWire drive.
I unpacked and mounted the drive using the disk utiltiy on the install cd.
Then I used the startup disk utility to select the second of two identi al 'osx10.xx on Mac' options (the other options being network and the install disk).
It rebooted normally, but seemingly from the internal, not external hard drive.
I believe at that point I went back into the utility and selected boot from network.
Since then, no matter what I've tried the only thing I can boot from is the install disk.
Any idea what is wrong and how to fix it short of wiping the drive?
Any help is grealty appreciated.
The booting sound plays but then I get the flashing folder with a question mark.
It won't boot in safe mode. It will boot in single user mode
but only from the install disc.
The weird thing is that from the install disk's disk utility, everything appears normal. The drive appears and both repair and repair permissions run without incident.
Here's what i did to cause this mess:
I attempted to mount and boot from a disk image I'd just created on an external western digital FireWire drive.
I unpacked and mounted the drive using the disk utiltiy on the install cd.
Then I used the startup disk utility to select the second of two identi al 'osx10.xx on Mac' options (the other options being network and the install disk).
It rebooted normally, but seemingly from the internal, not external hard drive.
I believe at that point I went back into the utility and selected boot from network.
Since then, no matter what I've tried the only thing I can boot from is the install disk.
Any idea what is wrong and how to fix it short of wiping the drive?
Any help is grealty appreciated.