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Please help - iMac screwed after 10.6.4
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Did you have a backup?
If yes, wipe the disk and restore your system from time machine, and then update.
If not, find another mac, boot the iMac in target mode (hold T), connect it to the working mac using a Firewire cable and copy everything you need (user data). Then, wipe the disk, reinstall 10.6, update to 10.6.4 and copy back your data.
Repair disk found nothing...repair disk permissions found some stuff that it fixed.
I called Apple. They told me to do an archive and install...doing that now. So to anyone with a white iMac...do not install 10.6.4...hah
Thanks for your advice.
This really bothers me since it's 100% Apple's fault this time. Aghhhhhhh
I called Apple. They told me to do an archive and install...doing that now. So to anyone with a white iMac...do not install 10.6.4...hah
Thanks for your advice.
This really bothers me since it's 100% Apple's fault this time. Aghhhhhhh
I tought you could only archive and install on an older version of OS X...
When my drive was dying, I went back a couple times to an older version of the OS.
So you can kill off 10.6.4 and replace it with 10.6.0 -- just need to sit through the upgrades again.
Is is booting into single user mode?
If so you might want to try ... /sbin/fsck_hfs -rd /dev/disk0s2 <-- where disk0s2 is the drive that shows up as you drive in the text above "singleuser boot -- fsck not done"
line above Firewire (OHCI) will say something like "BSD Root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2" -- just use the device you see here
Mac OS X: How to start up in single-user or verbose mode
Also tells you how, click on desktop, go to menu bar, click on HELP, type in "single user" click on "Starting up in single-user mode"