Hmm. Sounds like a drive gone south. Seems pretty unusual. Let the Apple folks do diagnostics and do whatever is needed at the hardware level and get the latest macOS installed and running. Once that's out of the way, you should be able to restore the rest of your system from the Time Machine backup. Perhaps you should bring that along to the store and let them do the reinstall too.
I'm scheduled to buy a new Mac mini about the end of February. My current mid-late-2012 Mac mini is still running fine, but the new one has way more power, and I think it's best to just buy and set it up fresh, from scratch .. keep this one in the closet as backup, and in case anything I have (and need!) doesn't run on the new one. I've lost a machine and a drive or two along the way, but never any data. My hopes 'twill be the same for you. G > On Jan 6, 2019, at 4:45 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
