Hi guys,
Having some trouble with my 2008 2.4ghz MBP. I think it may have started with an impatient shutdown, if that's any use to you.
The problem:
Mac will NOT boot to OS X
Mac will NOT boot to the recovery partition
Mac will NOT boot to system disk
Mac will NOT boot to external HDD with my install DMG on it (Although sees it and allows me to try)
Mac WILL boot to my Win7 bootcamp partition (typing from now)
All that happens in any other case than booting my windows partition is that the grey apple logo will appear, the wheel will spin, and then shortly afterwards I can feel the HDD spin down and it appears to hang, although seems to get hotter and hotter...
As stated, I can boot to windows fine. I can also access my OS X partition from win7.
I've tried:
- Resetting PRAM
- Booting my install DVD (Superdrive broken, so I use an external HD, which has worked successfully before)
- Resetting SMC (hold power with no battery/charger)
- Booting to the console and doing fsck -fy until it says there was no filesystem changes (3 times)
The only clue I have is that the verbose boot seemed to hang on com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.xgridd.pcastserver): Path monitoring failed on var/pcast/server/xgridd/keepalive
The few lines before that stated that there were a few things that weren't .plist files (they were but they were appended with .backup IIRC)
Hope this is enough info - if you need more, I can verbose boot and note everything verbatim.
I also heard that it can take upwards of 15 minutes to boot in safe mode?! I gave up after about 10 minutes when I heard the HDD spin down.
Thanks in advance!
Having some trouble with my 2008 2.4ghz MBP. I think it may have started with an impatient shutdown, if that's any use to you.
The problem:
Mac will NOT boot to OS X
Mac will NOT boot to the recovery partition
Mac will NOT boot to system disk
Mac will NOT boot to external HDD with my install DMG on it (Although sees it and allows me to try)
Mac WILL boot to my Win7 bootcamp partition (typing from now)
All that happens in any other case than booting my windows partition is that the grey apple logo will appear, the wheel will spin, and then shortly afterwards I can feel the HDD spin down and it appears to hang, although seems to get hotter and hotter...
As stated, I can boot to windows fine. I can also access my OS X partition from win7.
I've tried:
- Resetting PRAM
- Booting my install DVD (Superdrive broken, so I use an external HD, which has worked successfully before)
- Resetting SMC (hold power with no battery/charger)
- Booting to the console and doing fsck -fy until it says there was no filesystem changes (3 times)
The only clue I have is that the verbose boot seemed to hang on com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.xgridd.pcastserver): Path monitoring failed on var/pcast/server/xgridd/keepalive
The few lines before that stated that there were a few things that weren't .plist files (they were but they were appended with .backup IIRC)
Hope this is enough info - if you need more, I can verbose boot and note everything verbatim.
I also heard that it can take upwards of 15 minutes to boot in safe mode?! I gave up after about 10 minutes when I heard the HDD spin down.
Thanks in advance!
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