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Stuck in Darwin/BSD Console Mode

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JoeWensell

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 25, 2008
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Greetings all,

When powering up my G3 (yes I know it is a dinosaur), the grey screen with the apple logo appears, everything appears normally during the boot, then after checking settings, internet, printers, etc...it goes into Darwin/BSD console mode prompting a user name a password.

After reading about similar problems on other forums, I booted in Single User mode, and ran fsck -fy. This is what appeared next on the next:

** /dev:rdisk0s6
** Root file system
** Checking HFS Plus volume.
**Checking Extents Overflow file.
**Checking Catalog file.
disk0s6: I/O error.
Invalid key length
(4, 1327)
**Volume check failed.
localhost:/ root#

Now I have no idea what to type in the prompt. I have read in other forums to boot from the installation disc, but I can not because I do not have one. Are there any alternatives to fixing this problem using fsck?

Thanks in advance,

Joe Wensell
 
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m1ss1ontomars

macrumors 6502
Oct 1, 2006
273
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JoeWensell said:
Greetings all,

When powering up my G3 (yes I know it is a dinosaur), the grey screen with the apple logo appears, everything appears normally during the boot, then after checking settings, internet, printers, etc...it goes into Darwin/BSD console mode prompting a user name a password.

After reading about similar problems on other forums, I booted in Single User mode, and ran fsck -fy. This is what appeared next on the next:

** /dev:rdisk0s6
** Root file system
** Checking HFS Plus volume.
**Checking Extents Overflow file.
**Checking Catalog file.
disk0s6: I/O error.
Invalid key length
(4, 1327)
**Volume check failed.
localhost:/ root#

Now I have no idea what to type in the prompt. I have read in other forums to boot from the installation disc, but I can not because I do not have one. Are there any alternatives to fixing this problem using fsck?

Thanks in advance,

Joe Wensell
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It looks like you have a bigger problem than can be solved with fsck or even a Mac OS X Install DVD. I/O error generally means something is wrong with your hard drive; recently my hard drive reported I/O error when bad sectors developed in the middle of my VM image (had to trash it :( ). Reformat and reinstall with secure erase (basically, zeroing every sector on the drive) should do the trick.

I can't give you anything else; I don't know enough about your situation. Try holding "v" on startup to see if there are any error messages you can report.
 
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JoeWensell

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 25, 2008
2
0
m1ss1ontomars said:
It looks like you have a bigger problem than can be solved with fsck or even a Mac OS X Install DVD. I/O error generally means something is wrong with your hard drive; recently my hard drive reported I/O error when bad sectors developed in the middle of my VM image (had to trash it :( ). Reformat and reinstall with secure erase (basically, zeroing every sector on the drive) should do the trick.

I can't give you anything else; I don't know enough about your situation. Try holding "v" on startup to see if there are any error messages you can report.
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OK, how do I zero every sector on the drive?

Also when starting the computer while holding "V" it brings back to the Darwin/BSD screen with the following message:

IP Packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging disabled
IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled
IP Firewall loaded

Darwin/BSD (Joseph-Wensells-Computer.local) (console)
login: Joseph Wensell
password: entered
Last login: Fri July 25 10:47:02 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
Joseph-Wensells-Computer:~ josephwensell$

Thank you,

Joe
 
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