Well,
I posted a thread earlier this week 'rebuilding/restoring osx' or something the like, and I got some pretty good advice.
I can let u know before hand that I can still access my drive. That means I can boot up in target mode and access all the files and back them up.
That is not the problem however. To summarize what happened, I run disk warrior on my hard disk in target mode, since I had some troubles with my system of late (see the other thread). I just wanted to try this, before I resumed into a clean install (me=stupid!!). Everything went smooth (though I do not know whether it would have solved my problems) and after rebuilding my directory I decided, while I was at it, to defrag my drive using drive genius.
That also went fairly smooth, until, here it comes, someone accidentally unplugged the firewire.
That is when all hell broke loose.The drive did not reappear on the desktop, but I could still boot it (using my own macbook pro). I wanted to repair this problem and I again booted in target mode and ran the rebuild in disk warrior again (as disk utility did not want to repair, because it did not appear on the desktop, I think, though I have to admit, maybe it gave an error, I cant remember, since then I have tried so many things...)
So, after rebuild, which passes successfully, I ran a permission verification. That seemed horribly wrong, because the estimated time was over 2 hours. So, I canceled that and thought that it might be better to do so while I booted the disk. So, I ejected the drive and restarted my macbook pro. What happens (and has happened ever since); it starts up, the apple logo appear, the spinning wheel appears and then, after about a minute, it restarts itself! And I bet it will keep on doing that forever, until the end of time, if I let it!
So, I tried save mode and single mode. In save mode nothing happens (nothing different) in single mode, the shell comes up, but right before the prompt should appear, it restarts itself.
Since then, I have tried everything. Rebuilding, permission restoring, restoring, verifying, rebuilding etc ect ect. And every time all repairs/rebuilds are fine. It can find only minor problems (even the disk permissions), but when I boot my machine, it runs into the start up loop. I also started up another machine using my drive to boot, and it has the same problem (so it is def. in the drive directory/system)
The question is, does anyone know what the * is going on here. I tried to google the problem, but I could not find anything like it. Obviously, I should probably do a clean install, but maybe someone has a better idea. Especially because at the moment and for the next week I don't have access to a installer cd, which makes my computer unusable for the time being.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
daan
PS: one of the odd things is that the drive appears as smart status not supported (though i am not sure if this unusual when u access it in target mode)
I posted a thread earlier this week 'rebuilding/restoring osx' or something the like, and I got some pretty good advice.
I can let u know before hand that I can still access my drive. That means I can boot up in target mode and access all the files and back them up.
That is not the problem however. To summarize what happened, I run disk warrior on my hard disk in target mode, since I had some troubles with my system of late (see the other thread). I just wanted to try this, before I resumed into a clean install (me=stupid!!). Everything went smooth (though I do not know whether it would have solved my problems) and after rebuilding my directory I decided, while I was at it, to defrag my drive using drive genius.
That also went fairly smooth, until, here it comes, someone accidentally unplugged the firewire.
That is when all hell broke loose.The drive did not reappear on the desktop, but I could still boot it (using my own macbook pro). I wanted to repair this problem and I again booted in target mode and ran the rebuild in disk warrior again (as disk utility did not want to repair, because it did not appear on the desktop, I think, though I have to admit, maybe it gave an error, I cant remember, since then I have tried so many things...)
So, after rebuild, which passes successfully, I ran a permission verification. That seemed horribly wrong, because the estimated time was over 2 hours. So, I canceled that and thought that it might be better to do so while I booted the disk. So, I ejected the drive and restarted my macbook pro. What happens (and has happened ever since); it starts up, the apple logo appear, the spinning wheel appears and then, after about a minute, it restarts itself! And I bet it will keep on doing that forever, until the end of time, if I let it!
So, I tried save mode and single mode. In save mode nothing happens (nothing different) in single mode, the shell comes up, but right before the prompt should appear, it restarts itself.
Since then, I have tried everything. Rebuilding, permission restoring, restoring, verifying, rebuilding etc ect ect. And every time all repairs/rebuilds are fine. It can find only minor problems (even the disk permissions), but when I boot my machine, it runs into the start up loop. I also started up another machine using my drive to boot, and it has the same problem (so it is def. in the drive directory/system)
The question is, does anyone know what the * is going on here. I tried to google the problem, but I could not find anything like it. Obviously, I should probably do a clean install, but maybe someone has a better idea. Especially because at the moment and for the next week I don't have access to a installer cd, which makes my computer unusable for the time being.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
daan
PS: one of the odd things is that the drive appears as smart status not supported (though i am not sure if this unusual when u access it in target mode)
