Hey folks, I have here one very unhappy macbook pro, hopefully someone on here has ideas that I haven't yet tried to get him back on his feet.
So the other day, I boot the mbp up, get the usual chime sound, the apple logo comes up, stays there for a minute or so, and the mbp turns straight back off. "not good" says I. I can't think of anything I've installed or changed lately to cause this. I've tried holding option and forcing it to boot from macintosh HD with the same result, holding shift key for safe mode with the same result, holding s for single user mode with - you guessed it - the same result. I've booted from my Leopard DVD and tried varifying and repairing the volume from Disk Utility there. In both cases, I get an error that says "filesystem varify or repair failed", and ocasionally I get a "the underlying task has failed" instead... uh oh! Some frantic Googling later, I found myself in terminal trying to repair the volume with fsck_hfs because it seems some folks have had more luck this way, but no joy. Terminal does give me messages about an invalid sibbling link though sometimes, which while it isn't what I want to hear, at least it's something a bit more specific. If anyone has any thoughts, they'd be so worth a shot. I've got 100 GB or so of data on this thing that isn't backed up (yep, apparently I can be that stupid). I have space on an external drive that I just picked up, if I can only figure out a way to get the data off and go for a clean install. TIA Scott
