Hi David - this all sounds like its worth a shot. I'm a complete terminal rookie though, so is there any chance you could mail me over the commands I'd need to mount disks and move files? Archive and install is something I haven't tried yet, I guess I could use that to archive to my external hd and work on getting the data out once the mbp is back up and running right?
cheers Scott On 12/24/08, David Poehlman <[email protected]> wrote: > if you can get the hd mounted from terminal, you should be able to > move the data. Then, it should be possible to do an erace-install. > it might even be possible to do an archive and install by booting from > the leopard dvd. > > On Dec 24, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote: > > 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 > > > > >
