Needless to say, I was bothered. The computer would begin startup, but stalled on the "Starting OSX" screen. (Which, by the way, is one of the silliest screens in the operating system, as it now just a hoax. In the past, when macs were starting up, they would give you a progress bar of your start up. Well, now they've improved the speed of startup so dramatically, that the progress bar is unneeded. However, people would apparently freak without it, or feel that their computer was taking too long to start up, or something... so Apple kept the progress bar at startup, but get this, IT'S JUST AN ANIMATED GIF! Nothing more. It just makes you think that it's kicking butt. That's all.) Anyway, it froze at that screen.I couldn't boot in safe mode, but I was able to boot from the install disc (By holding down on the C key with the install cd in the drive, for the mac users out there) and run disk utility. No luck. It let me know that there was an error on my hard drive, but couldn't fix it. Well, I remembered that a long time ago, I heard about a way to repair your hd even if you didn't have the install disk, but I couldn't remember the name of the mode that you had to boot into, or the way to do it. So I humbled myself, and did some research online. Unfortunately, I had to do the research at work. On a PC of all things. It was so humiliating. It looked something like this.
Well, the mode is called "Single user mode" and you get there by holding the command and s keys while booting. It comes up with a black screen white type that looks a little like dos, but it's just the unix underpinnings of OSX. Anyway, I ran a script that looked like: /sbin/fsck -fy.It came up with some "errors" and I ran a script to correct them, and it came back clean!
It wouldn't work right away, so archived and installed the OS, and it booted back like a charm! I was so happy. It's really disconcerting when I think about how much music, how many photos and other things I have that are not backed up. But everything worked out, and it's as good as new again.
Woot.
3 comments:
Ahh ha! Everybody makes fun of the good old PC, but when the Mac comes mysteriously crashing down, what's the first thing you Apple Minions come running to for online support???
That's right! The warm lap of Uncle Bill!
Dude, I thought Macs were crash-proof. This is certainly one strike against my next machine being a Mac...
Rare is better than often. Even if it isn't never.
Rare is also the best way to have a porterhouse.
Plus, my mac is like 5 years old, and this is the first time this has happened... Rrqumvo!
I can't believe I read all that...
You still managed to be amusing even when I didn't really understand what you were saying :)
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