Disk Warrior can work wonders, but you'd probably be better off getting a new 
drive for that $120, and reloading your Time Machine backup onto it. When you 
start getting file system corruption, it's usually the fault of the disk (as I 
learned the hard way :O)
-Carl


> On Mar 26, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> At $120, it's not worth that much :-).
> 
> I'm wondering if I could get a reinstall from the genius bar.
> 
> On 2016-03-26, at 4:33 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> If you have disk warrior, boot from it and try to repair the drive. If you 
>> don't have it, it's really, really worth getting.
>> 
>>> On Mar 26, 2016, at 3:59 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have an iBook G4, running 10.5.8. Today, it rebooted on me, at "random".
>>> 
>>> During startup, it complained about problems with the root file system, and 
>>> said that an fsck would be forced at next startup. So, I forced a reboot 
>>> from the login screen.
>>> 
>>> Naturally, it did not do the fsck. So, a reboot into single user mode.
>>> 
>>> Fsck -f tells me the following:
>>> 
>>> Checking Journaled HFS plus volume
>>> Checking extents overflow file
>>> Checking catalog file
>>> Keys out of order (4, 704)
>>> Rebuilding catalog B-tree
>>> The volume could not be repaired
>>> Exited with signal 8
>>> 
>>> What do I do at this point to recover? I have a full time machine backup.
>>> 
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