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SOS- OS X shuts machine down right after power on
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Please help me. The strangest thing is happening moments after I turn on my MacBook. This is the same MacBook which I am writing you on which has BootCamp and Windows XP on. I hate the fact that I am on XP now and have to write you about this but here it goes....
the other day I powered on my MacBook but a moment later as the Apple logo appeared and the little spinning thing showed up I accidently turned it off. Don't ask how or why, but it happened. Since then whenever the Apple logo shows up and the spinning thing appears my MacBook automatically shuts off. It just goes dead. I tried booting into single user mode and running the check but it comes back with some weird error. I tried the zap P_RAM but that didnt seem to help. Can anyone offer ideas? I am running the latest version of 10.5, all the updates installed, etc etc. No special hacks. Thanks.
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Boot from the Leopard DVD and run Disk Utility from there. Choose Repair Disk.
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Problem is that the DVD is with a family member who is many miles away. We purchased the family DVD of Leopard. I do not have immediate access to the DVD for at least a week or three.
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Do you have another Intel Mac? You could put yours in Firewire target disk mode and hook it up to another Mac. From there run Disk Utility to repair your hard drive.
If single user mode won't take and you don't have another Mac, a third-party disk repair utility, or the Leopard disc (and I assume you don't have the Leopard DVD imaged to a separate partition on an external drive), then there aren't any more troubleshooting options open to you.
What I think happened, based off your narrative and the symptoms, is that your Mac incurred directory or other filesystem damage to OS X when you powered it off during boot.
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Yes, file system damage makes sense, but I thought ext3 was supposed to remedy this? Do you think that Disk Warrior should help? Perhaps I should just get myself a copy of Leopard.
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DiskWarrior is always a good bet. Another thing you can try is Single-User Mode. If you hold down Command-S at startup until you get a command line, then type the following commands, it will do the same thing as running Disk Utility from the install DVD:
/sbin/fsck -fy
(repeat until you get a message saying the disk is OK)
/sbin/reboot
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Originally Posted by CharlesS 
DiskWarrior is always a good bet. Another thing you can try is Single-User Mode. If you hold down Command-S at startup until you get a command line, then type the following commands, it will do the same thing as running Disk Utility from the install DVD:
/sbin/fsck -fy
(repeat until you get a message saying the disk is OK)
/sbin/reboot
Right. See above, no matter how many time I run fsck -fy it gives me the same error over and over and over no matter how many times I run it. I even used the mount command and it didn't help. Any other ideas? I think I'll have to find another Mac or get Disk Warrior.
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Originally Posted by lexapro
Right. See above, no matter how many time I run fsck -fy it gives me the same error over and over and over no matter how many times I run it. I even used the mount command and it didn't help. Any other ideas? I think I'll have to find another Mac or get Disk Warrior.
If you have said that in this thread, I can't see it...
What error does it give you? What did you try to mount?
Edit: OK I found it, 'the check' and 'weird error'.
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Going to reboot now and copy down the "weird error msg". Be back in a few minutes.
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Here is the exact error message. This same one appears no matter how many times I run the fsck.
** CHECKING CATALOG FILE
INVALID SIBLING LINK
(4, 20617)
** VOLUME CHECK FAILED.
/dev/rdisk0s2 (hfs) EXITED WITH SIGNAL 8
If this is enlightening to anyone and allows for a solution without the use of another Mac or any other CD/DVDs then I will be forever grateful. Thank you.
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Fair enough, I was just about to link you to the same thing on Mac OS X hints.
It might not work in single user mode but it's worth a try.
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Apple's discussion forums suggest doing the same thing, at least for internal drives.
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IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Took about 10 minutes, but I followed the process there and I am now posting from my working OS X volume!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I heart OS X!
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Great. Thanks for posting back with your fix.
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