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x.2.4 booting into command line
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Feb 28, 2003, 11:49 AM
 
Sorry, I KNOW this has been covered before, (and recently) but I couldn't find the post after looking for a while, so...
Does anyone know why the second HD on my quicksilver (which has a full install that was bootable) now only boots into the command line? I found a command "SystemStarter -g" that supposedly gets you back into Aqua and all that, but I can't even log in - it says my password is wrong for both my main account and root. Any ideas? Drive 10 says the disk is fine.
     
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Feb 28, 2003, 01:33 PM
 
Try to repair the disk with fsck or Disk Utility. Your NetInfo database is probably corrupted.
If this this not enough, you can try to delete and recreate the netinfo database by doing this :

Boot OS X in single user mode (hold down cmd-S during startup), and then enter the following commands :

mount -uw /
rm -rf /var/db/netinfo
rm -f /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
sync

Then restart, you will be prompted to recreate your user (this will not erase any info on the disk)

edit: simplified the response
(Last edited by pat++; Feb 28, 2003 at 01:54 PM. )
     
   
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