Hmm ... what kind of drive do I put in this laptop? 

iBook G4, 15 inch ... 1 GB memory.

(I use it primarily for a second screen, and playing dos games in QEMU).

On 2016-03-26, at 7:08 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote:

> Disk Warrior can work wonders, but you'd probably be better off getting a new 
> drive for that $120, and reloading your Time Machine backup onto it. When you 
> start getting file system corruption, it's usually the fault of the disk (as 
> I learned the hard way :O)
> -Carl
> 
> 
>> On Mar 26, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> At $120, it's not worth that much :-).
>> 
>> I'm wondering if I could get a reinstall from the genius bar.
>> 
>> On 2016-03-26, at 4:33 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> If you have disk warrior, boot from it and try to repair the drive. If you 
>>> don't have it, it's really, really worth getting.
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 26, 2016, at 3:59 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I have an iBook G4, running 10.5.8. Today, it rebooted on me, at "random".
>>>> 
>>>> During startup, it complained about problems with the root file system, 
>>>> and said that an fsck would be forced at next startup. So, I forced a 
>>>> reboot from the login screen.
>>>> 
>>>> Naturally, it did not do the fsck. So, a reboot into single user mode.
>>>> 
>>>> Fsck -f tells me the following:
>>>> 
>>>> Checking Journaled HFS plus volume
>>>> Checking extents overflow file
>>>> Checking catalog file
>>>> Keys out of order (4, 704)
>>>> Rebuilding catalog B-tree
>>>> The volume could not be repaired
>>>> Exited with signal 8
>>>> 
>>>> What do I do at this point to recover? I have a full time machine backup.
>>>> 
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