Try starting up with the Shift key held down to disable extensions and launchd stuff. That might get past the "dubious permissions" issue. If that works you can try to isolate the individual item causing the problem. -- Brian
On Mar 28, 2012, at 6:10 PM, Christopher Bischoff wrote: > 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. -- 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.
