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Please help (grey screen asking me to restart my computer)
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Thank you very much Touchdown....it's checking my instalation dvd as I type
So did you try to boot up from your drive? I don't think you have to re-install tiger, or am i just misunderstanding what you are doing?
Yeah stop the installation for now.
If you have restored your drive from the image, go ahead and try to boot up with your osx drive by going to utilities, and startup disk. It should have restored everything that was there before from the disk image, including the system. If it doesn't work you could probably do a clean install of tiger and then mount the image after you do the clean install and manually copy back important files.
I may be too late as installing base system part 1. I'm not very confident and dont want to stop it now. If i've lost data then i've lost data. I found some dvds from sept 08 when i last backed up photos and my musics on the external. We'll see what happens but either way thanks again.
Looks like a full reinstall as its claiming 1 hr 11 mins remaining whilst it installs essentialls
Ok, Its going to erase everything on the drive if you do a clean install. You can always go back into disk utility and restore the image to the disk again if you aren't able to mount the image in tiger after you install. Just make sure you keep the disk image!
If you want to try to see if you can get back all your data, I would restore the disk again with disk utility from the Tiger install disk and then try to boot from it. If it throws up an error then do a fresh install again and use those back-up dvds you said you found. I know it seems like a lot of repeating what you just did. But it's the only thing that I think will work.
If another Kernel Panic happens no matter what you do, I would call apple and see what they can do for you. It may be faulty hardware that you cannot replace yourself.
raced through the installation, then said it was going to restart, i got excited.
On restart all gone wrong i think, black screen, white writing, some of the comments are, bad system call, bus error, i have no name, exited abnormally, hang up...
THIS IS BAD i'd say..
On restart all gone wrong i think, black screen, white writing, some of the comments are, bad system call, bus error, i have no name, exited abnormally, hang up...
THIS IS BAD i'd say..
Yeah, so it could be a bad HD, could be some other bad hardware. Something has gone bad. I would call apple and explain the situation and see what they can do for you. I'm leaving for 2 weeks right now and no access to the internet so I can't help anymore until I get back. Make sure you post what happens back here so I can see when I get back. I'm sorry I couldn't help more, good luck.
Yep. It certainly sounds like a bad/dead hard drive. At worst, its a bad SATA controller. If you are still under warranty I would give Apple a call.
I agree with the bad hardware diagnosis
To agree with someone else who touched on this (and for others who visit); this is usually a bad hard drive (unless First Aid is able to fix it; i.e. running the Repair Disk again comes up as all is good) or WORSE, a bad SATA controller; which was my case: I replaced the hard drive (start with a couple screws on the bottom, separate the two halves, and unscrew/remove the LCD to gain access to the hard drive), only to discover the install would crap out (even tried booting the iMac as a target and installing via another computer).
If you have your original install disk(s), just have it (or the first one) in, and boot holding the Option key, then pick the Apple Hardware Test button (and click the right arrow button), then run the Extended Test: you should come up with Mass Storage errors if either the drive or the controller is bad (in my case, no matter what hard drive I might put in there, would always get the error "2STF/1/4: S-ATA Bus 0 - Master").
Prognosis: I'm thinking a permanently attached firewire drive (as a cheaper option than replacing the logic board since out of Apple Care).
I can get to disk Utility via the Insatll Disc 1. When I veryfy Mac HD i get red errors stating invalid node structure, the volume macintosh needs repairing.
The underlying task reported failure on exit. 1 HFS volume checked, volume needs repair
When i go to repair disk i get a red error stating invalid volume header, 1 volume could not be repaired because of an error.
To agree with someone else who touched on this (and for others who visit); this is usually a bad hard drive (unless First Aid is able to fix it; i.e. running the Repair Disk again comes up as all is good) or WORSE, a bad SATA controller; which was my case: I replaced the hard drive (start with a couple screws on the bottom, separate the two halves, and unscrew/remove the LCD to gain access to the hard drive), only to discover the install would crap out (even tried booting the iMac as a target and installing via another computer).
If you have your original install disk(s), just have it (or the first one) in, and boot holding the Option key, then pick the Apple Hardware Test button (and click the right arrow button), then run the Extended Test: you should come up with Mass Storage errors if either the drive or the controller is bad (in my case, no matter what hard drive I might put in there, would always get the error "2STF/1/4: S-ATA Bus 0 - Master").
Prognosis: I'm thinking a permanently attached firewire drive (as a cheaper option than replacing the logic board since out of Apple Care).