Help! Need boot disk! |
September, 25, 2002 12:35 PM |
johnson |
My OSX partition came up with errors (IO errors Mesh during boot-up this morning, and now the system won't boot into X at all. The Classic partition on this drive is ok, so it's not a hardware drive problem (I hope!) When it boots into OS 9, I get the 'This disk is unreadable do you want to format it?' prompt for the OSX partition. I'm hoping a few rounds of fsck will fix it, but there have a quandry: Of course it won't boot from the 10.2 disk by itself, so I can run the DIsk utility; will a bootable Darwin disk do the trick with OS 10.2.1?? |
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RE: Help! Need boot disk! |
September, 27, 2002 5:13 PM |
OSXGuru |
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One way to run fsck from the Mac OS X Install CD is to "pretend" to be doing an install. That is, use XPostFacto to set up an install, so that you can boot from the CD, but just don't do the install once you get there. You could tell XPostFacto that you are installing to your current Mac OS 9.x volume--that shouldn't hurt anything. (To get out of the install procedure, just quit the Mac OS X Installer, and hold down the "option" key as you reboot to get back into Mac OS 9.x). |
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RE: Help! Need boot disk! |
September, 25, 2002 6:09 PM |
paul_findley |
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When it's that bad, fsck, or disk first aid under 9.x, usually won't do the trick. You need Norton Util 6.0.3 under 9.x. Tell it to look for unmounted drives, and then when the X volume shows up in its window, ask it to repair, and cross your fingers. Run it over until there are no more errors. You can skip the media check after the first pass. Warning: Earlier versions of Norton than 6 will not properly repair an X volume. Buy 6.0 and upgrade for free to 6.0.3 on the Symantec web site or by "LiveUpdate". |
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