Morning,
Interestingly enough when my harddrive failed a few months ago I
couldn't boot off the DVD. I thought it was logicboard but turned out
to be harddrive. Weird!
Cheers, good luck Blitto
On 11/10/2009, at 8:50, David de la Hunty
<da...@visionary.iinet.net.au> wrote:
hey Blitto,
How far do you get in booting from the DVD, flashing question mark
or do you get further into the boot sequence?
there's a bunch of things to try when this happens.
1. PRAM zap - hold down option-apple-P-R simultaneously (think
that's it, might be ctrl-opt-p-r) and restart (ie hold down power
key), hold the four keys down until you hear a second chime (this
resets the parameter RAM, always a good thing to do, often makes
computer much happier)
2. try starting in "safe" mode (start while holding down the Shift
key) in OS9 this used to be called "extensions-off"
3. Check the hard disc: worth a try though from what you have said
it sounds a bit more serious than that if you can't even get it to
boot from the DVD:
- if you have another computer, connect the two together with a
FireWire cable, restart both simultaneously, and hold down the "T"
key on the macbook while it is restarted. Puts it into Target Disc
mode. With that you should be able to use Disk (sic) Utility
(applications>utilities>disk utility) to see the HDD in your sick
machine, and do the usual maintenance stuff with it ie Repair
Permissions, Repair Disc etc (if it's ghosted you may need to put
your 10.5 disc in the good machine, restart both, hold "T" on the
sick one and hold "C" on the good one - sounds complicated but it
works)
if it still won't restart you could try reinstalling 10.5 over the
Firewire connection using target disc mode once more, ie the
"archive and install" method which doesn't wipe your files.
If all this fails there's another thing you can try which is to go
into the Terminal and talk dirty to your computer (Unix) to ask it
to do things in its own language. Here my knowledge base lets me
down, I was told how to do this by a kind List member only a few
weeks ago but do you think I can find the email? Some of the pros on
the list might be able to help with that one.
oh I nearly forgot just make sure the 10.5 you are using is the one
bundled with the macbook or is a generic ie non-bundled bought one
or it might not be compatible with your machine.
Anyway the above should keep you occupied all Sunday morning :( see
how you go anyway
Good luck,
DD
On 10/10/2009, at 8:04, rb...@iinet.net.au wrote:
Hi WAMUGers
MacBook Pro about 8 months old, latest version of 10.5
When restarted this morning i got flashing question mark.
Tried restarting with C key down and 10.5 retail disk inserted, but
just kept re-starting but not booting up. After about 5 restarts i
gave up.
Any ideas would be appreciated please.
ta
Blitto
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