More AAARGH! Restored the system from a Time Machine backup.
Black screen. Won't even boot into Recovery mode. Use command-S to boot into Single mode: "ERROR! Could not find APFS system volume handle." Taking it back to where I bought it, tomorrow morning. Rick On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 6:07 PM Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > For those keeping score: > > A bit less than a year ago, my Mac Mini (photo computer) suffered > toasting of its i/o board, and I had to replace it with a new one. > > Yesterday the new one froze while I was transferring pix of > Herculaneum to SmugMug. When I tried to restart it, nothing happened > -- the white apple on a black background appeared, the "thermometer" > crept about 10% of the way along, and then everything went blank. > > I had no time to attempt repair until this afternoon. I booted in > "recovery mode," and ran Disk Utility . It reported a problem in the > SSD. So I ran Disk Utility on the Apple SSD, Container Disk 2, Mac HD, > Apple Disk Image, and OS X Base System. All were deemed healthy, > except a note that there was an "overallocation on main device."* > > Restarted, and it started. Then it froze again. > > I'm now restoring the OS from a Time Machine backup, and then I'll > have to restore all the data. > > I was besieged by computer problems in 2018; and they seem to have > crept into 2019 too. > > Thanks for letting me vent. > > Rick > > > *Anyone know what this is? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
