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BellaBella · Aug 22, 2006, 09:49 AM

I am using a copy of my DiskWarrior 3 that I copied with BootCD. For some reason when I boot from CD (holding down the "c" key) it boots from the CD, but the DiskWarrior app won't launch from the dock. Bounces once than that's it, doesn't start.

Also would like to note that the other apps BootCD include when you make a bootable CD launch ok (Disk Utility, Terminal, TextEdit, etc), all except DiskWarrior for some reason. It launches fine when I run it on my HD though.

I'm on a Powerbook g4.

Please help, there are volumes on my harddrive that are damaged and they need to be repaired asap

Big Mac · Aug 22, 2006, 10:11 AM

Why not burn a regular Disk Warrior disc? It isn't necessary to have a BootCD to run Disk Warrior off of if you can just boot Disk Warrior directly, right?

BellaBella · 10:53 AM

unfortunately I don't have access to my original DW cd and I only have a copy I made with BootCD. I needed to make it bootable from startup with BootCD because I need to repair my HD, and DiskWarrior "cannot rebuild the directory on the disk from which the Mac OS computer was started."

also add I'm in 10.3.9, the DiskWarrior version I have is 3.0. The bootcd disk doesn't seem to launch finder when I click the face in the dock either (I get no error messages, it just doesn't launch)... but all other apps launch. I don't think the bootcd disk is damaged as I have 2 of them and both give the same problem.

CharlesS · Aug 22, 2006, 01:26 PM

BootCD should have included the Console app on the CD - just launch it, then try to launch DiskWarrior, and if some library or framework is missing for some reason, Console will tell you about it. Then you can just burn a new CD with that library or framework in place and try again.

BellaBella · 02:46 PM

thanks a bunch for the feedback, I didn't think to try that.
I ran Console and I got this error message:

dyld: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder can't open library: /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (no such file or directory, errno = 2)

So I guess I have to get the BootCD to include this, I'm not sure how....

CharlesS · Aug 22, 2006, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by BellaBella

thanks a bunch for the feedback, I didn't think to try that.
I ran Console and I got this error message:

dyld: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder can't open library: /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (no such file or directory, errno = 2)

So I guess I have to get the BootCD to include this, I'm not sure how....

Just copy it over to the .dmg file in the Finder and then burn a new disc; that should do it.

BellaBella · Aug 22, 2006, 03:18 PM

ok I'll try it... should I just recopy the whole Finder.app?

CharlesS · Aug 22, 2006, 03:42 PM

No, just copy over /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib.

BellaBella · 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by CharlesS

No, just copy over /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib.

stupid question, but where does this exist? In the Finder's app content?

*edit* ok I found it through Go, but it seems to be an alias file, would it work that way?

CharlesS · Aug 22, 2006, 04:14 PM

You need to copy it and also the file it points to (libstdc++.6.0.4.dylib on my machine, but I'm not sure what it is in 10.3.9).

BellaBella · Aug 22, 2006, 05:11 PM

Thanks... but for some reason Finder won't let me copy the libstdc++.6.dylib fully (it copies a 0KB file with the name, and when trying to use the BootCD > Console, it says the file libstdc++.6.dylib is truncated. The libstdc++.6.dylib on my HD is a 4KB shortcut but won't copy like that to my mounted disk image. Finder & DW still won't launch after I burned the disk because of this.

CharlesS · Aug 22, 2006, 05:18 PM

Try the Terminal:

sudo cp /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.* "/Volumes/<name of disc goes here>/usr/lib/"

BellaBella · Aug 22, 2006, 05:28 PM

Ok, it's copied as a 1MB file now (it's the same file as the libstdc++.6.0.3.dylib so I guess it's working as a shortcut, although it's not showing as 4KB nor has a shortcut icon) would it be safe to try to burn now?

CharlesS · Aug 22, 2006, 05:53 PM

Ah, I forgot about that. Yeah, cp probably copied the original file rather than the shortcut. It would probably work, but if you want to be thorough, you could trash the file that's supposed to be a shortcut and remake it like this:

cd "/Volumes/<disc name>/usr/lib/"
sudo ln -s libstdc++.6.0.3.dylib libstdc++.6.dylib

BellaBella · Aug 22, 2006, 07:03 PM

so now, it won't launch Finder & DW because "libgcc_s.1.dylib" is missing, according to Console.

Should I just recopy the whole usr/lib folder from my HD to the Disk Image? I don't want to have to add & burn libgcc_s.1.dylib, then find out it's missing another file.

CharlesS · Aug 22, 2006, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by BellaBella

so now, it won't launch Finder & DW because "libgcc_s.1.dylib" is missing, according to Console.

Should I just recopy the whole usr/lib folder from my HD to the Disk Image? I don't want to have to add & burn libgcc_s.1.dylib, then find out it's missing another file.

There might not be room for that - on my machine, /usr/lib is over 100 MB.

BellaBella · Aug 22, 2006, 07:36 PM

Mine was only about 24MB so it fit. I made sure all the shortcuts that didn't copy correctly were recopied with terminal, so hopefully it works. I'm attempting to burn again.

BellaBella · Aug 22, 2006, 09:45 PM

It worked! Finder & DW now launch on the BootCD. Thank you so much for your help CharlesS!