Okay, got this puppy into verbose mode, couple of things stand out ""running fsck on the boot volume... ** /dev/rdisk0s2 (NO WRITE)", "dubious permissions on file (skipping): System/Library/LaunchDaemons" then it holds, cursor not blinking, looks like a freeze. Gotta leave the house in about 15 minutes, will let it hold for a bit.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Christopher Bischoff <[email protected]>wrote: > 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.
