On Oct 30, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Gregg Dinse wrote: > I did not try booting from the install DVD, or in single user mode, or > firewire target mode. I could try those now, though I'm not sure what to do > from single user mode or firewire target mode. Before the hang, I ran disk > utility and got errors that could not be fixed (by disk utility at least). > Is there some other software that might fix them?
I believe that a firmware upgrade puts the system into a mode where it will only boot up into that firmware upgrade "disk". I would check the search engines to see if, when booting into single user mode, there is a way for you to disable that, so that the normal boot options when holding the Option key down, you can pick the hardware diag DVD. You might also try holding "D" down at boot to start up the hardware test if the system has one built in. More info: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1533 But my first suspicion is that the firmware upgrade 'mode' of the computer is overriding the usual startup keys one should be able to use. If there's a way around the firmware upgrading via a command in single user mode, that would my personal choice as to the next step. /vjl/_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
