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Can't boot into OS X
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Okay, so I bought a 1.8 G5 tower today and I was defragging the drive with Drive Genius... Power goes out in the middle of it. I try to boot into the drive, no go. I boot into Drive Genius, repair the disk, it says its fine, so I try booting again. No go. Get the Restore Disc and Verify Disk, Repair Disk, Verify Permissions, Repair Permissions. Still a no go. All that happens it the grey Apple screen, then gets to the first interface where the status bar goes through a few processes, but instead of logging me into the user, it goes to a blue screen, I get a similar spinning thing towards the middle then it boots into command line.... Can anyone help me?!
(Last edited by Zaphod; Dec 8, 2006 at 05:23 PM.
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Revert to your backup... you do have one don't you?
If not, you'll need to do an archive and install, but you could find that your data is screwed, so before doing that I would try to copy as much off the hard drive as possible so that you aren't overwriting content that can potentially be saved. If you have Disk Warrior, running that next might also be worth a shot.
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Well here's a status update, I managed to just reinstall Tiger. Now here are some things I didn't mention.
1. The computer was purchased today for $500, had Tiger installed but was given to me with the original Restore Disc, 10.2.7. He kept Tiger cause he has other Macs, so he may need the disc. And I don't have a copy of Tiger.
2. Backup wasn't something I was worried about cause the computer was restored before I bought it, so nothing of value in there.
So, all I have are restore discs, for OTHER Macs, so I cannot use them on the G5 to get Tiger. However, I got the brilliant idea of just putting the G5 on Target Disk Mode and plugging it into another Mac of mine. Didn't work at first and I realized it was because the other Mac wasn't a PPC, it was an Intel, so no go. Found my old PowerBook G4, which is now my dads, and booted off it's restore disc, with the G5 connected to it. So, all I had to do was choose the Target Disk Moded G5 and restore that way. I never thought it would work, but dammit it did! And now the problem is solved and I now know a way around the hardware specific restore discs. JKT, thanks for your comments and attempt to help me.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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By the way, this is why I say defragging your boot disk is a bad idea.
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