Hi Tom, So is it an OS 10.2 install disk with a 10.3 upgrade disk?
I�ve never used 10.2 so I don�t know what utilities it came with. If you do end up doing a fresh install I suggest you create an emergency boot CD with Disk Utilities on it so this won�t happen again. Sorry I couldn�t be more helpful. Good luck. Geno on 04/06/2005 1:55 PM, Thomas Baker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks Geno. My OS-X install disk, which I bought from OWC, is for 10.2 and > it doesn't have any Disk Utilities on it. It has a Utilities Folder, but > the only thing in it is Disk First Aid. So I tried running Disk First Aid > on the drive that has OS-X on it, and it kept finding problems, but not > fixing them. Every time it says the disk is repaired, if I run it again it > reports the same problems. > > I don't see any way to reset prefs on the boot drive either with this > install CD. Is my install disk a weird one, then, since it doesn't offer > these things? It says eMac on it, but OWC assured me that it would work > with any OS-X-capable Mac. I thought I was buying typical OS-X install > disks, but it sounds like I got shorted. > > Tom > > > At 12:27 PM -0600 4/06/2005, Geno wrote: >> Man you wrote a book! >> >> Try putting in your install cd and open disk utilities. Reset the >> preferences on your boot drive. >> >> That's worked for me in the past. >> >> Good luck. >> >> Geno >> >> >> on 04/06/2005 11:22 AM, Thomas Baker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> I've been running X (10.3.8 now) trouble-free for months, but today I >>> decided to change the cables on my video converter box (which I use to feed >>> analog video into Final Cut), and I thought it would be safer to shut down >>> the computer before switching FireWire or video cables on the box (I >>> especially worry about switching FW cables hot). So I chose Shut Down and >>> waited for the Mac to shut down. The monitor screen turned blank-blue as it >>> usually does during shutdown, but then it just hung there, frozen. No >>> shut-down. >>> >>> After waiting awhile, I decided to go ahead and shut the Mac down the rest >>> of the way by just hitting the Off button on my APS power backup, which >>> cuts off the power to the Mac. Dumb! Doing that apparently broke OS-X! >>> (Unless it was already broken when the shutdown screen froze). >>> >>> Now when I try to start up the Mac, instead of going to the OS-X desktop, >>> it goes to a login box with my name on it, but only for a couple of >>> seconds. Then that box vanishes and I get a blue screen with a terminal >>> command line in the upper left corner: a login prompt asking for name and >>> password. So I give it those, and I get "Welcome to Darwin!" Who's Darwin? >>> Charles Darwin the naturalist? Anyway there sits the prompter or whatever >>> it is waiting for commands, and I don't know any commands to give. The only >>> command I know is "exit," which starts the whole broken startup thing over >>> again: the glimpse of a login box followed by the terminal command lines >>> asking for name and password again. >>> >>> I looked into Pogue's OS-X book for help, and he says to boot into single >>> user mode in such a situation and type in fsck -y to get a repair routine >>> running. So I did that, and I get >>> >>> "Checking HFS Plus Volume >>> Invalid number of allocation blocks (-1,0) >>> **volume check failed" >>> >>> Hitting exit from there takes me right back to "Welcome to Darwin" again. A >>> vicious circle! No way out! >>> >>> Pogue suggests that when everything else fails like this, reinstall OS-X. >>> So I put my OS-X CD in the superdrive (Pioneer 107) and restart while >>> holding down the C key, but it hangs at the gray screen with the apple on >>> it. I have to force a restart. >>> >>> Fortunately this is a dual-boot G4 (733 DA), so I can drop back into OS >>> 9.2.2 by re-starting and holding down the D key. That gives me the OS-9 >>> desktop (and I am sending this cry for help to the G-list from it) and I >>> can see all my drive icons, and open them up to see that everything on them >>> is present and accounted for (three internal and IDE three external >>> FireWire drives), and the OS-X System folder is sitting there on one of the >>> drives as normal. >>> >>> While on the OS-9 desktop, if I choose the OS-X Install disk as the startup >>> disk, and restart, all it does is hang again at the gray screenfd, and I >>> have to force a restart. >>> >>> So, I'm stuck! I can't get my OS-X desktop back, and I can't reinstall OS-X >>> either! 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