if you hold down ALT when starting up (instead of C) it brings up a list of choices to boot from. fingers crossed you will see the utility partition and the OS partition of the hard drive available.
after its booted once, next time it should try and boot from the same place, so it could be a problem now that its trying to boot to something that isn't there any more and is getting stuck on the grey spinning wheel you are seeing. On 30 January 2014 22:48, Davies Steve <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks, > > Read that and while it may be relevant I can not get past the white / > grey screen with Apple Logo and spinning gear when I power up. > I pulled the plug, powered up with the Snow Leopard DVD in the dive while > holding down the C button, this allowed me to get to disk utility and > repair the drive. > I got a message that the volume appears OK followed by one that said > volume repair complete. > I re-installed the OS from the DVD, the machine said the installation had > been a success and to re-start the machine. > On re-starting, I am back to the white screan with the Apple logo and > spinning gear? > > Steve. > > On 30 Jan 2014, at 09:45, Graham Perrin <[email protected]> wrote: > > It may require a firmware downgrade. > > Related (please read at least the background): > > Amongst Macs that can be upgraded to support OS X Recovery, can any model > *not* accept a firmware > downgrade?<http://apple.stackexchange.com/q/117804/8546> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
