Pull down OS X's pants and you'll find UNIX. Feel sorry for it being that it's gender neutral. :-) On Nov 20, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Bill O'Connell wrote: > Hey, wait a minute there hod down guy, thought strange spinning about 3 times > and keying in weird commands was reserved for PCs :-> > > From: nikonf4-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nikonf4-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Eric Welch > Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 12:08 PM > To: nikonf4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [nikonf4] Re: Mac Trouble > > When you start, hod down Command+S and then wait for the command prompt. > > The instructions are there in the text that scrolled by. > > First type: > > /sbin/fsck -y -f > > Press Return. > > When it finishes, it will say The system has been modified or that it appears > to be okay. > > Then type: > > /sbin/mount -u -w / > > Wait for the prompt. > > Then type "reboot" and press Return. > > Hopefully it will be okay. > > Eric > Sent from my iPad > > On Nov 19, 2010, at 8:25 PM, Dave <downsouthdave@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I was using my Macbook 13" laptop tonight when suddenly it froze in Safari > and the Force Quit didn't work. Neither did anything else. I held the power > button down, and it shut off. > > Now when I try to turn it on, it starts to boot, chimes, and the little > thermometer comes up. It's the one that shows when you have a long startup > sequence to go through. Then the whole thing powers off instead of booting. > If I hold down the power button until the long tone sounds, the same thing > happens. I inserted my OS disk hoping to do a restore, and it just ate that; > it won't eject no matter what, and there's no paper clip hole. > > Power on, progress thermometer moves to about 5% then restarts a couple of > times, then it powers off. I powered up and connected my firewire backup HD > but it's no help. > > This Macbook has been flawless since 12/06, and I just installed the latest > big OS and Safari updates last night. It worked perfectly all day, however. > > Any ideas, gang? > > Don't make me go to the Apple Store on Saturday! > > Eric No man forgets where he has hidden his treasure. - Cicero