On 27/10/2008, at 5:46 PM, Robert Miller-Eves wrote:
For future reference - no one has recommended start up in Single User Mode, but this can often work wonders with Macs that won't start up properly. Boot the Mac, then immediately hold down Command-S until you see some scrolling UNIX code on a black background. This allows you to run fsck (that's not a bad spelling mistake - it stands for File System Check). You type fsck -fy at the prompt and wait for it to do its thing. It has worked for me when even Diskwarrior has failed. It fixes a multitude of problems with the disk catalog, permissions, and many other things.
In fact, I had to use it on my old G4 tower just a week or so ago following an iTunes upgrade. the computer would not progress past a solid blue screen, but following a restart in Single User Mode and running fsck ,everything came back to normal and it's been running perfectly ever since.
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