Hi, I understand from another message that you have already began reformatting and reinstalling your HD so this may be moot. When in Recovery mode, did you attempt to Quit the Recovery app? When you do this, it should ask you to pick a Startup Disk. If your Startup Disk is fine, it will show up as an available Startup system from which you can simply select it then press the Restart button. If your HD does not show up as a valid Startup Disk, then it may be that it has lost its blessing. The blessing process tells the computer which System folder on your Mac has all the proper requirements to allow for booting. One thing to try in this situation is to go up to the Utilities menu when in Recovery mode, choose Terminal from that menu then enter the following in the Terminal window:
sudo bless -folder /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/System/Library/CoreServices -setOF Press return then you'll need to enter your Admin password. Quit Terminal then Quit the Recovery app and see if your Macintosh HD is now available as a Startup Disk. If so, life is good and your computer should start up normally. If you still have problems, something more drastic has occurred and you may need to either re-install and migrate or restore from a backup. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-03-15, at 12:05 PM, Jessica Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > Accidentally got MacBook Pro into safe mode. Then I was able to put it into > recovery mode, but it will not boot up from either the cd or the hard drive > partition where the recovery disk is. > I have run the verify disk and verify disk permissions. It's odd, because > the message that comes back is that everything is ok, but something is > definitely wrong. After not being able to start up from either the dvd or > partition, a repair disk permissions and repair disk was run. > > I have thought about reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling everything. > But that would be a last resort option, as I have a lot of music and > GarageBand stuff on the Mac. > Oddly enough, I was going to backup everything, but this mess happened before > the backup could take place. :( > Any help with thiss issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. > > Jess > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
