Flashing folder with question mark, need more troubleshooting ideas please

[lorkp]

I am getting the flashing mac folder with the question mark when trying to boot up. It started the reboot after I (unsuccessfully) tried to remove iTunes 8.2 so I could go back to 8.1. I was following some instructions from another site, but interpreted the code to be segmented and not to be entered as one large command. So I entered this into terminal while iTunes was still running.

"sudo rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app /System/Library"

I think the system was hanging, so rebooted the computer and that's when this started.

I can't enter single user mode, diskwarrior has rebuilt the directory successfully, but no luck. Any other ideas?

I'm on a 12" Powerbook 1.5GHz with 1.25 GB RAM, Leopard 10.5.7.

Thank you

 

[gnasher729]

I am getting the flashing mac folder with the question mark when trying to boot up. It started the reboot after I (unsuccessfully) tried to remove iTunes 8.2 so I could go back to 8.1. I was following some instructions from another site, but interpreted the code to be segmented and not to be entered as one large command. So I entered this into terminal while iTunes was still running.

"sudo rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app /System/Library"

I think the system was hanging, so rebooted the computer and that's when this started.

I can't enter single user mode, diskwarrior has rebuilt the directory successfully, but no luck. Any other ideas?

I'm on a 12" Powerbook 1.5GHz with 1.25 GB RAM, Leopard 10.5.7.

Well, that was a bloody stupid thing to do, wasn't it?
Lesson number 1: Don't use sudo unless you know what you are doing. It will byte you.
Lesson number 2: Use Time Machine to backup your hard drive.

Take your installer DVD and reinstall the operating system, since you just stupidly removed about half of it from your hard drive.

 

[lorkp]

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It was a very stupid thing to do. I'm seeing now that I essentially deleted my system folder, right? I'd there anything I can do to fix the system? I dot have the restore discs or a leopard disc on hand at the moment.