I've got a time machine backup that may or may not have the corrupted permissions thing, so all is not lost. Funny thing, I posted the last from a coffee shop, the iMac unplugged at the house. For several hours, just like I did last night. Just went downstairs and plugged it in, hit the power and I'm booted to the Apple logo and spinning circle. Going to let it do that for a bit and see what happens. Slightly encouraged.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:11 PM, richardsan <[email protected]> wrote: > re: new iMacs....i liked using shower wall cups to pop the screens off > 'em..kinda cool...in a crude way...; ^) peel back the foil watch those > tiny wires and bob's your uncle! > what about target disk mode, got something else to try booting with a > firewire cable attached? > that's all i got, not mentioned... and yer not 'telling' us you don't have > an external that you're backing up to...regularly, right?...; ^) > > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Christopher Bischoff < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Bruce Johnson < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Mar 28, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Christopher Bischoff wrote: >>> >>> > Urg. Late 2010? Alum iMac, Lion, THREE WEEKS OUT OF WARRANTY. Started >>> getting various permission errors right after pasting a custom icon for the >>> HD, Disk Utility tried to fix, over and over, appeared that it was unable >>> to write changes to the disk. Various reboots, suddenly the white screen, >>> no Apple logo, nadda. I don't think I can hear the HD spin up, but this was >>> always a quiet machine. PRAM zapped, unplugged, same bad result. None of >>> the key combos have any effect, tried two different KBs, doesn't recognize >>> any DVDs in the drive. Did some looking, will try to build a bootable Lion >>> drive later in the week but I've got a bad feeling about this. Looked at >>> what goes into swapping out a HD, don't think so, I miss beige. End of vent. >>> >>> What happens if you boot whilst holding down command-V? (verbose mode, >>> might get an idea of where the failure is occuring Command-S? Can you boot >>> from an external drive? Does sound like a foo HDD. >>> >>> You're right that iFixit guide does look moderately hairy. Easier than >>> working on a lampshade G4 iMac...I'm 1 for 3 on those, won't touch one now. >>> >>> Hey Bruce, >> >> None of the Command start-up combos has any effect, thought it might have >> been a problem with the Logitech KB, swapped it out for the original KB, >> nothing, but thanks. External HD is next try, bit of a pain (for me) >> because this shipped with Leopard and was upgraded to Lion, so it doesn't >> (or didn't when I was able to boot that far) use the shipped system disk to >> boot from. Fixing Lion is new to me, but I've got this: >> >> http://www.macworld.com/article/1161069/make_a_bootable_lion_installer.html >> so all is not lost...yet. 1 for three, ouch. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "StrataList-OT" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > knowledge and wisdom come from knowing a ""republican conservative"" is an > oxymoron. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
