At 14:58 -0600 4/6/05, Thomas Baker wrote:
>
>Thanks Ted, but I already started up from Disk Warrior and ran it through
>all six of the hard drives (three internal and three external). It found
>nothing wrong. And I still can't boot into X.
>
>Tom
>
Tom,
Have you tried Single User Mode? I was taught to do this after every system
crash. but they happen so infrequently I have trouble remembering how. Hold
down Command-s when booting. You'll get a black screen with white text. At the
prompt it'll tell you what to type ('fsck -y' without quotes, note the
space). If the drive is journaled it'll then tell you to type 'fsck -f', I
think. Then it runs through some tests and fixes on itself and makes a report.
When it's done type 'reboot'. It might fix your problem.
~Edie
P.S. I followed up on a recommendation for a free program, AppleJack (there
are others. too) that runs maintenance for you while you're in 'single user
mode'. After using AppleJack seems all my programs don't remember running on
this machine anymore. It was unnerving when I opened the first one and the
little box told me that Word (or whatever--thought I had to dig out the
registration numbers, but it didn't affect those. whew!
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