[muglo] Re: No boot up
- From: Scott Strawbridge <scotts1@xxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:37:39 -0400
Can you boot from your system disk and run disk utility from there?
it looks bad.
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On 14-Jun-07, at 9:59 AM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:
> I brought my laptop in and thought that I would run disk utility
> repair on it and that led to an error after 30 seconds or so this is
> the message I got.
> http://mypixel.ca/muglo/disk.jpg
>
> Would my best option be to format the drive and then try to reinstall
> the OS. I guess I better go look for the disk.
>
>
> Gerhard
>
>
> On Jun 13, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Scott Strawbridge wrote:
>
>> Hi Gerhard
>> can you get it to boot into Single User mode (restart, hold down
>> command S until you get the Unix prompt)?
>> then type fsck -fy and hit return (I'm assuming you're running Tiger.
>> if not, then type fsck -y)
>> this will run a file system check and repair anything damaged. If you
>> are running Tiger, fsck will keep running until it comes up with no
>> more errors. If you are running Panther or lower, keep repeat the
>> process until the check reports no errors.
>> when the drive checks as ok, type reboot and hit return.
>> The mac should restart
>> Do you have a copy of DiskWarrior or another repair utility
>> (TechTool, etc.) on hand? if so, try booting from the CD.
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>> Scott Strawbridge | Graphic Artist
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>>
>>
>> On 13-Jun-07, at 12:11 PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This morning we went to boot up our oldest Mac, a G4 800 iMac. All
>>> it does is come to a gray screen with the apple logo, the hard-
>>> drive seems to be spinning I can boot to target mode but I don't
>>> have my laptop with me right now so can't confirm that the hard-
>>> drive is o.k. Any ideas would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Gerhard
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