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Friend's PowerMac won't boot in OSX
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I'm posting this for a friend as at the moment he can't - his DP800 PowerMac isn't working. It will no longer start up in OSX, just gets a grey screen with an Apple logo, without the spinning marker thingy. The computer crashed badly in OS9 so he force-restarted, and then skipped the disk repair screen (with a 60GB drive it apparently takes ages, he thought he'd be OK). He set the startup disk to OSX, restarts, nothing. He's restarted from the 10.2 install disk, run the disk repair program, no luck.
Any ideas?
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Obvious question, did he run fsck -y? Startup into single user mode (command-S)? Does sit seem like it's starting up? I've had my dp800 do that before after a bad OS X crash (force rebooted) -- it sat there like it was starting up. Took about 5-7 minutes, but it finally finished the process. I thought it had hung, but it just took a hell of a long time.
Maybe snag a copy of DiskWarrior 3, too.
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Originally posted by MindFad:
Obvious question, did he run fsck -y? Startup into single user mode (command-S)?
Well I guess if he can't startup in normal mode there's no reason he's going to be able to startup in single user mode (although I could be wrong - can you do it from the CD?)
Does sit seem like it's starting up? I've had my dp800 do that before after a bad OS X crash (force rebooted) -- it sat there like it was starting up. Took about 5-7 minutes, but it finally finished the process. I thought it had hung, but it just took a hell of a long time.
Like I said, the Jaguar progress-spinning-grey-wheel-type-thing doesn't show up... Is there a word for that thing??  so it doesn't look like there's any chance of it starting... I'll tell him to just leave it for ages though while he goes out - worth a shot!
Maybe snag a copy of DiskWarrior 3, too.
Probably the way forwards!
Cheers, W.
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Originally posted by willed:
Well I guess if he can't startup in normal mode there's no reason he's going to be able to startup in single user mode (although I could be wrong - can you do it from the CD?)
I don't know about from a CD. I don't think so. It's worth a try though. Unix is a funny thing. It might force itself into SU mode. Try at least.
Like I said, the Jaguar progress-spinning-grey-wheel-type-thing doesn't show up... Is there a word for that thing?? so it doesn't look like there's any chance of it starting... I'll tell him to just leave it for ages though while he goes out - worth a shot!
Oooh, without the spinning thing. Yeah, I misread.  Yeah, maybe give it ten minutes -- you never know.
Probably the way forwards!
Cheers, W.
Definitely saved my ass a few times.
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Originally posted by MindFad:
Obvious question, did he run fsck -y?
fsck is the SAME THING as Disk First Aid -- fsck is a "blanket" command to run the appropriate file system check for any given disk, which must be provided by the OS. In this case, Apple wrote the routines -- they just ported them from DFA to fsck.
Get DiskWarrior. Version 3 is much faster than previous versions, so make sure you get it.
If DiskWarrior can't fix it, then it's not directory trouble, it's a damaged OS X bootloader. If that's the case, reinstall OS X.
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