hey guys,
i'm really bumming right now. after i ran maintenance 3.6 yesterday, my computer (see specs in sig) restarted. It seemed fine, it 'bonged', I saw the apple logo on the gray screen, and then bam. Kernel panic. So, as per the instructions, I tried to restart - several times - to no avail. Same thing every time. I tried to reset the pRAM, no dice. I tried start up discs, and every time I put the disc in, I could boot from it, but when I got to the install screen (to open disk utility), I got "Alert: You cannot install any software from this disc." I tried slaving it via firewire to another mac, and then tried to run disk utility - the permissions options were grayed out, so i rana verify disk and repair disk, and there were several problems: volume header, volume bitmap, etc. After repairing those with disk utility, I ran techtool pro, and it saw the same problems again, apparently they had not been fixed, and techtool couldn't fix 'em either. The computer still doesn't start up.
Is my last option to reformat? is it definitely something wrong with my drive? Do i need a new drive or is reformatting gonna take care of the problem?
Oh and since i get the alert every time i start up from the boot disk, would I need to erase the disk as a firewire slave, and then install os x?
Currently freaking out,
Jordan
i'm really bumming right now. after i ran maintenance 3.6 yesterday, my computer (see specs in sig) restarted. It seemed fine, it 'bonged', I saw the apple logo on the gray screen, and then bam. Kernel panic. So, as per the instructions, I tried to restart - several times - to no avail. Same thing every time. I tried to reset the pRAM, no dice. I tried start up discs, and every time I put the disc in, I could boot from it, but when I got to the install screen (to open disk utility), I got "Alert: You cannot install any software from this disc." I tried slaving it via firewire to another mac, and then tried to run disk utility - the permissions options were grayed out, so i rana verify disk and repair disk, and there were several problems: volume header, volume bitmap, etc. After repairing those with disk utility, I ran techtool pro, and it saw the same problems again, apparently they had not been fixed, and techtool couldn't fix 'em either. The computer still doesn't start up.
Is my last option to reformat? is it definitely something wrong with my drive? Do i need a new drive or is reformatting gonna take care of the problem?
Oh and since i get the alert every time i start up from the boot disk, would I need to erase the disk as a firewire slave, and then install os x?
Currently freaking out,
Jordan