Hi guys! i have a problem. HD went through some issues and i brought it back to life with DiskWarrior and Disk Utility HOWEVER after zero-ing out the drive and reinstalling OSX, when i boot up it goes directly to the apple logo and spinning gear and will stay there forever.
IDK if i did the OSX install right because i did the same install on an external firewire and when i hook it to the downed PB and select to boot from that, it doesnt take me to the "desktop" or login, it seems to ask me to select a language and select an HD to "install the OSX" to; in that case it shows the PB HD and the free partition on the Firewire drive. IS this normal when an installed OSX is in or is there another way to getting the HD to boot to the login because when i use the install disks and Disk Utility it tells me my HD is ok, i even ran a hardware test and everything passed! did fsck and everything was OK. so idk why its not going past the spinning gear and logo.
in Verbose mode it said something like...
APR 1 11:54:45 localhost DirectoryService[38]: CNet InfoPlugin: : Initialize - notify_get_state failed over last minute (Status - 1) repeat 5x
then says
Apr 1 11:57:45 localhost memberd[34]: Couldnt find root user. Sleeping and trying again. (and repeats that 5 times)
and it'll keep saying those two lines all down the screen.
what does this mean?? Could this be the problem? Should i zero out AGAIN and reinstall even though Disk Utility and Disk Warrior, Hardware Test, and FSCK says everything with the HD is okay?
IDK if i did the OSX install right because i did the same install on an external firewire and when i hook it to the downed PB and select to boot from that, it doesnt take me to the "desktop" or login, it seems to ask me to select a language and select an HD to "install the OSX" to; in that case it shows the PB HD and the free partition on the Firewire drive. IS this normal when an installed OSX is in or is there another way to getting the HD to boot to the login because when i use the install disks and Disk Utility it tells me my HD is ok, i even ran a hardware test and everything passed! did fsck and everything was OK. so idk why its not going past the spinning gear and logo.
in Verbose mode it said something like...
APR 1 11:54:45 localhost DirectoryService[38]: CNet InfoPlugin: : Initialize - notify_get_state failed over last minute (Status - 1) repeat 5x
then says
Apr 1 11:57:45 localhost memberd[34]: Couldnt find root user. Sleeping and trying again. (and repeats that 5 times)
and it'll keep saying those two lines all down the screen.
what does this mean?? Could this be the problem? Should i zero out AGAIN and reinstall even though Disk Utility and Disk Warrior, Hardware Test, and FSCK says everything with the HD is okay?