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Orion27 · Jun 8, 2003, 08:15 AM

I am having a recurring problem of system folders losing blessed status.
The latest occurence on my second hardrive on which a clean install was
performed only days ago and to which I have only booted once and that was directly after the clean install. DiskWarrior and permissions report all is/was well. I will mention I recently installed a Pioneer DVR 105 as superdrive. The installation was by the book and appears to function normally, being recognized by all programs. I have burned several data
backups without a hitch. I've read I can simply re-bless the system folder
in terminal but I'd have to have explicit instructions. I could simply do another clean install but I would like to avoid this. In either case this would not explain the occurences lost sanctity. I thought a helper here would have the insight to perhaps throw some light on the subject. I would think this is an uncommon occurence.

King Bob On The Cob · Jun 8, 2003, 10:07 AM

start in single user (Hold Command-S)

Code:
mount -uw /
bless -folder "/Volumes/Mac OS/System/Library/CoreServices"
           -folder9 "/Volumes/Mac OS/System Folder" -bootBlocks -setOF

That is if you have OS 9 installed.
http://www.hmug.org/man/1/bless.html

Orion27 · Jun 8, 2003, 12:47 PM

I'm talkin' system 10.2.6 The X icon keeps disappearing from the system folder.

King Bob On The Cob · Jun 8, 2003, 06:04 PM

Originally posted by Orion27:
I'm talkin' system 10.2.6 The X icon keeps disappearing from the system folder.

That code blesses the OS X folder as the boot folder, but the OS 9 one as a backup incase of an error.

theory · Jun 8, 2003, 06:36 PM

Originally posted by Orion27:
I'm talkin' system 10.2.6 The X icon keeps disappearing from the system folder.

The icon dissapearing doesn't necesarily means it is not blessed (in OS 9 it's true but
not 10). Have you installed any thing that
changes your icons like candy bar? If you
have reinstall the default icon set and restart.

Orion27 · Jun 8, 2003, 08:07 PM

Yes> I've discovered that the X icon is only present on the boot drive. Something else must have given me the restart hang. Man, letting go of the past OS system quirks is tough.