There's no back up, and frankly there's nothing on there that we want to keep. I've ordered a replacement SSD and will try and re-install the OS when it's set up. Fingers crossed. And thanks for the suggestions.
Rob On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 at 13:27 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group < [email protected]> wrote: > Have you tried repairing Macintosh HD with Disk Utilities? If the file > system allows (ie HFS+), I'd run Diskwarrior on it via your external drive. > > Failing that, I think I would try installing the OS having booted up from > the external, onto the HD. > > Good luck (is this time to ask whether it's regularly backed up? Possibly > not... but if you have the capacity to take a snapshot of the current drive > somewhere safe, I'd recommend that) > > cheers > > > J > > On 13 Oct 2018, at 8:15, Rob Beattie wrote: > > It's a long story - which I won't bore you this - but the result is that > my daughter's MacBook won't boot. > When switched on it has a kernel panic. > Holding down Cmd+ R loads MacOS Utilities and running Disk Utility reveals > it has four 'drives' > > HGST SATA Internal Physical Disk > and under that 'Macintosh HD' > > Disk images > Apple disk image Media > OS X Base System > > Trying Cmd+I on each of these in turn says that none of them is > 'bootable'. I've tried reinstalling the OS via the Internet but it wouldn't > complete the operation. Internet Recover ran overnight without any joy. > > Any thoughts as to my next move? I can start the machine using an external > disk (one from my old machine from when I upgraded to an SSD). > > Any help appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Rob > -- > -———— > Rob Beattie > Books | Copywriting | Web Design > http://www.robbeattie.com > > -- > > 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 email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > 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 email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -———— Rob Beattie Books | Copywriting | Web Design http://www.robbeattie.com -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
