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iampivot · Jun 28, 2006, 09:52 AM

Even single user mode doesnæt work. What do I do now?

Horsepoo!!! · Jun 28, 2006, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by iampivot

Even single user mode doesnæt work. What do I do now?

Archive and install.

Not that big of deal to reinstall on Macs...we're lucky that the install process takes 20 minutes instead of an hour.

TETENAL · Jun 28, 2006, 10:03 AM

Now you boot from the system install CD, in the Utilities menu of the Installer select Disk Utility and in the First Aid tab repair your boot volume until it says it appears to be OK. After that you quit Disk Utility and the Installer and try whether it boots again. If not you do an Archive & Install of the operating system with reimporting users and network settings.

It's unlikely that the 10.4.7 update itself hosed your setup. It probably was the reboot that made an already existing problem apparent.

iampivot · Jun 28, 2006, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Now you boot from the system install CD, in the Utilities menu of the Installer select Disk Utility and in the First Aid tab repair your boot volume until it says it appears to be OK. After that you quit Disk Utility and the Installer and try whether it boots again. If not you do an Archive & Install of the operating system with reimporting users and network settings.

It's unlikely that the 10.4.7 update itself hosed your setup. It probably was the reboot that made an already existing problem apparent.

Ok, I'd like to avoid archive and install if possible. When trying single user mode boot I get

Load of /sbin/launchd, errno 88, trying /sbin/mach_init
Load of /sbin/launchd failed, errno 88

I've run disk utility repairing the disk and permissions, but it still doesn't boot. I looked at the hard drive with the terminal running from the install disk, and it says /sbin/launchd is in the correct location.

Maybe update either launchd from a collegues machine, or mach_init?

P · Jun 28, 2006, 10:48 AM

The Mac error 88 is "Cannot load CDEF", so unlikely. Error -88 is "parameter RAM not initalized", could be that. Tried zapping the PRAM?

Of course, could be a different error code table all together.

iampivot · Jun 28, 2006, 11:19 AM

I fixed it by booting with the install media, copying the 10.4.7 update dmg over using ftp in the terminal, and running the update again as outlined in http://blog.washingtonpost.com/secur...ound_of_1.html

Am not sure what caused it. I did have some temperatur monitoring things installed (have a mbp), anfd the two finger right click hack. Maybe it was one of them.

tooki · Jun 28, 2006, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by P

The Mac error 88 is "Cannot load CDEF", so unlikely. Error -88 is "parameter RAM not initalized", could be that. Tried zapping the PRAM?

Of course, could be a different error code table all together.

That's a Classic Mac OS error, entirely unrelated to Mac OS X.

The UNIX part of Mac OS X doesn't even have Mac-style resources, so loading a CDEF is... impossible.

tooki

OreoCookie · Jun 29, 2006, 02:07 AM

The same thing happened to me, the update to 10.4.7 hosed my installation (it complained it couldn't complete the setup). And then the machine didn't boot anymore. I had to do an archive and install. Fortunately it's not a pc and the whole procedure took only an hour and a half

wataru · Jun 29, 2006, 02:26 AM

One of my machines had a problem with the update, but I fixed it by booting from an external drive and reapplying it. Took about 10 minutes.