mid 2011 imac- can't boot...please help!!!

[brentg33]

i have a 27 imac 3.4 i7 with 8 gb ram and a SSd. I usually keep it on and sleep at night. for the first time in about a week or so, i decided to shut down. I came home today, and i get stuck at the white screen with the apple logo and the spinning wheel. I have tried to use the disk utilities on the lion restore partition (running 10.7.2 btw) verified disk, that was ok, repaired permissions. reset pram. ran apple hardware test. still nothing Ran in verbose mode and stuck at a prompt, and to be honest, can't really understand all that it says there. any ideas what i can do? other that restore ?

 

[brentg33]

just an update. i restored from a time machine back up from 11/1/2011....everything seems ok. however, is there anyway to find out what went wrong?

 

[brentg33]

Anyone? Anyone have something similar and found the cause

 

[derbothaus]

Too many possibilities. Did you clear your logs? The logs around that time may tell what happened.

 

[brentg33]

I believe I did by restoring from a tm back up from a week or so ago
I guess I'm just concerned that it will just happen again from this restore point and don't really want to do a fresh lion install at this time
Thanks