I have a MacBook C2D (2.16 GHz) which I bought in August of last year.
As I mainly use Linux, my 160GB HD is split into several partitions to accomodate various Linux OSes (the first two partitions remain EFI and OSX)
Today, I upgraded one Linux OS and when complete I rebooted the Mac as instructed.
However, when it came back, only a white screen showed without the rEFIt OSX and Linux logos.
This looked to me like the HDD had become unreadable.
So, I inserted a Linux Live CD and rebooted. This booted fine (although perhaps a little sluggishly) which supports the probablility of the HDD being kaput.
However, once inside of Linux (through the Live CD) I was able to read each of the partitions without problems Even the 40 GB of music I have on the OSX partition, I could read and play faultlessly.
Then I inserted the Leopard Install DVD. Using this to get into the system, I used the Disk Utility to check/verify the OSX partition (disk). It verified OK.
I then used the StartUp disk utility to try to start up from the HD (rather than the Install DVD) but it just didn't see the HD and went for the DVD instead.
I'm very puzzled about this and can't figure out whether this is a hardware or a software problem although I'm leaning towards hardware.
I'd welcome any suggestions as to how to fix this.
Thanks
As I mainly use Linux, my 160GB HD is split into several partitions to accomodate various Linux OSes (the first two partitions remain EFI and OSX)
Today, I upgraded one Linux OS and when complete I rebooted the Mac as instructed.
However, when it came back, only a white screen showed without the rEFIt OSX and Linux logos.
This looked to me like the HDD had become unreadable.
So, I inserted a Linux Live CD and rebooted. This booted fine (although perhaps a little sluggishly) which supports the probablility of the HDD being kaput.
However, once inside of Linux (through the Live CD) I was able to read each of the partitions without problems Even the 40 GB of music I have on the OSX partition, I could read and play faultlessly.
Then I inserted the Leopard Install DVD. Using this to get into the system, I used the Disk Utility to check/verify the OSX partition (disk). It verified OK.
I then used the StartUp disk utility to try to start up from the HD (rather than the Install DVD) but it just didn't see the HD and went for the DVD instead.
I'm very puzzled about this and can't figure out whether this is a hardware or a software problem although I'm leaning towards hardware.
I'd welcome any suggestions as to how to fix this.
Thanks