Ok thanks Susan. Yes I'll give this a go. It is the black plastic MacBook around 2008 vintage I think running Leopard.
As I'm up North in the Pilbara, it will be late this week before I'm back to have a chance. James will have to wait to play Minecraft some more! Regards Pete On 13/01/2013, at 4:04 PM, Susan Hastings <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Peter, I did a quick google and found this question and answer which > solved someone's problem. If your son has the original install disk he should > boot up in from the install disk, by holding down "c" when starting up. He > can then run disk utility on his hard drive to check for problems as a first > step. Also, we need to know which operating system he is running. > > > http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/271143-macbook-pro-wont-boot-up-no-recovery-disk.html > Regards, Susan > Sent from my iPad > > On 13/01/2013, at 12:59 PM, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My 12 yo's MacBook has refused to boot up after shutting down in the normal >> way a few nights ago. >> >> I am remote so trying to resolve this remotely from him is a bit >> challenging. >> >> I did a quick google and it suggested to try boot up in Safe mode. >> >> He tried this but screen stays on the grey screen with a circle with a >> diagonal slash through it the whole time. I left overnight thinking it might >> be processing but to no avail. >> >> Are there a series of steps to go through to maybe work this out? >> >> We have full backup on Time Capsule to restore content if it turns ugly. >> >> Any tips appreciated. >> >> Regards >> >> Pete >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130113/0591be33/attachment.htm > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
