On Oct 30, 2011, at 6:18 PM, Gregg Dinse wrote:
> The last thing it said it was testing was the memory.
>
> As I said earlier, I am not able to boot with command-option to get a boot
> menu. It never gets to the boot menu, so I can't ever choose a different
> drive to boot from.
Maybe your problem is holding down the command key. It's just option.
> As I am writing, I just looked at the test screen and I see that it now says
> 50 minutes. It was stuck on 10 minutes for more than 30 or 40 minutes, but
> it finally updated the time, though the progress bar is still only at about
> 30% (and it's been over an hour, I think).
>
> Maybe it will eventually finish. Over the last day or two, the iMac would
> hang for several minutes and then come back, so maybe the testing program
> hung for a while and then continued. I'll let it run for a few more hours.
All your symptoms point to massive disk retries, barely succeeding. Stick your
ear up to the chassis. Do you hear the disk retrying, retrying, retrying?
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