Okay, thanks.. Mine said EFI boot also; but I haven't messed around
with Boot Camp at all.
I think I might know what my problem was; Yesterday, I started getting
these weird messages that said something like, "IO-something-
family.ktext is installed improperly and cannot be used, you need to
reinstall it." So I went in and changed the permissions so that I
could replace it with the same Ktext file from another Mac running
Snow Leopard... I changed the permissions back, but that's when I
started having problems... heh heh. I ran the permissions repair from
the SL dvd, and those were the ones it went through and repaired. I
should've posted here before I started screwing around with my system
file permissions.
Elliott
On Dec 10, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Jim Scott wrote:
>
> On Dec 10, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Cyrus Griffin wrote:
>
>> Well, my iMac (2.0GHz Core 2 Duo, 3Gb ram, 10.6) crashed last night,
>> and when I went to boot it this morning, it starts to boot, gets to
>> the grey Apple, then displays the NOT sign. I know this is a system
>> problem, but nothing I've done has helped. Disk utility (Repair
>> permissions, repair disk) and DiskWarrior made no difference.
>>
>> So my question now is, what will the Snow Leopard installer do?? If I
>> was running 10.4 or 10.5, I'd just do an archive and install, with
>> preserve user settings. But the 10.6 installer doesn't have those
>> options... I really don't want to wipe all my info, is there some way
>> to know what kind of install it's going to perform? It sure looks
>> like
>> it's going to install the system fresh... (I do have a Time capsule
>> backup drive, so my info is safe... I hope...)
>
> Cyrus or Elliott,
>
> My late 2007 MacBook, which runs OS 10.6.2 Snow Leopard, had a
> problem recently after I installed Windows 7 in a Boot Camp
> partition. It stopped seeing the Hard Drive volume and replaced it
> with something weird called EFI Boot. I couldn't copy the full
> volume with Carbon Copy Cloner because it would stop after about 6.5
> GB and say there wasn't enough memory. I guess that's what I get for
> installing Windows 7, which almost two months later still is
> supported because Apple hasn't updated Boot Camp 3.0 (soon, I pray).
>
> Anyway, after trying Disk Warrior, which fixed some volume
> information things, it still still wouldn't clone completely. So I
> reinstalled Snow Leopard. The default for Snow Leopard apparently is
> archive & install as there is no "Previous System Folder" created
> and all of my data is still there. So go ahead and reinstall SL.
> Everything should be as it was before, except your operating system
> should behave properly again.
>
> Jim Scott
>
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