Right, so here is the deal. Disk Utility (in OS X) says everything is just fine, nothing wrong, while Disk first Aid (in OS 9) says there is a problem with StartMount something.
I was playing Baldur's Gate Tales of the Sword Coast when the game hung (no surprises there) and since I was playing in OS 9 (not classic) I had to restart my iBook. Then the troubles begin. I get the questionmark folder when I start up (indicating that the compuer can't find a startup disk) meaning my HD was fried. Or so I thought. I fire up the install disk that came with my iBook (containing OS 9.2.1 and some utilities) and used the DiskFirstAid utility on it to verify my HD. The HD did not, by the way, mount on the desktop. Now the FirstAid utility finds some problems here and there (btree something and something else) but calls them "minor". It does find however something it calls "major roblem" with the StarupMount verification. It was called something like that I don't remember, I have never seen such a problem before. Now I press "repair" and it tries to repair, but gives up saying that the reparations could not finish, the disk can not be mounted and that I should run the reparation again. I did with the same results. Now I use the Jagwire install CD and the DiskUtility on it. First I cerified and repaired permissions, and there was a bunch to repair, but everything wnt fine. Now I verified the HD. Disk Utility didn't comment on anything, just quietly finished the inspections. Everything was just fine... But the computer could still not find the HD and start up off it. I tried to hold down "alt" while starting up, but the only disk the computer could see then was the OS X install CD. So I run it again, Disk Utility and all. Everything is fine. I give up. I decide to see if I am allowed to install OS X again. I run the installer and when I am supposed to choose a HD I am greeted with a warning that I'll have to do a clean install since the system on my HD is newer than the one on the CD. That was correct, 10.2 on the CD and 10.2.3 on the HD. But the installer could mount and read the HD?? WTF?? I realize that I don't have enough space to install anything, so the last thing I do before giving up is to run the OS 9.2.1 install CD again (since I had room to install that). When it had finished loading I notice that my HD mounts correctly. I still run Disk First Aid and sure enough everything is OK *except* it still claimed there was a "major problem" with some startup protocol. I ran the startupdisk controlpanel and chose OS X and started up with no probs. Now I ran DiskUtility and nothing is wrong.
Which one is right? Does anyone know what happened? I feel like one big questionmark.
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