Not booting up off of Mac HD

[supanatral]

When I restart my computer it sits there constantly with a white screen. The only way to get it to boot is by holding the option key down while booting and selecting the mac drive. I only have one partition so I don't know why this is. Anybody have any ideas how to fix this?

 

[Kees Buijs]

When I restart my computer it sits there constantly with a white screen. The only way to get it to boot is by holding the option key down while booting and selecting the mac drive. I only have one partition so I don't know why this is. Anybody have any ideas how to fix this?

Have you checked startup disk for the disk selected for startup ? Maybe the selected system folder is not intact. Otherwise maybe a small part of the harddrive is damaged (like the boot sectors / partition). Maybe that can be fixed by the disc-utils application. It can at least repair both permissions and volume content, so that is usefull to run anyway.


Good luck, Kees

 

[eric2006]

Boot off your system disk, and run the repairs for starters.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214