Hi guy, this is my first post, and i'm kind of desesperate.
The story is: i borrowed my mac to my girlfriend, because she needed to instaled some programs and do some stuffs (wordlpress or something like that).
well, she experimented some issues installing that programs, so she start to find i don't know what, but the end of the story is (according she said to me) she give permissions to all (really i don't know what that means).
So, the day after i grab my mac, and do not started, appears the apple on the screen, then the little wheel, but restart itself, and again, and again, again,...
my mac is a version 10.5.8 (i dont know who animal represents that).
well, i decided to start to read about that, and the first thing i do was to enter in the single user mode and:
1) do the fsck thing......nothing.
2) mount the volume with the -uw thing.....nothing.
after that, i get a copy of the disk warrior...... i thought that's gonna save my mac, but nothing fixed, the same problem. i decided to run disk warrior like 10 times, nothing.
then i read about there's some problem with the permissions, so do the thing of chmode 775, chown, try to start the diskutil from the SUM, i think i've tried everything i've read, but nothing solved the problem.
some of the error result i'm getting are: the file is read only, sudoers is in mode xxx and should be yyy, etc. i try also some ALC or ULC stuff, but said to me i have no permissions to do that, etc
So, i get a copy of several mac instalation disk (leopard, snow leopard) and try to run the utility disk, but with the leopard the letters were gray (so can't press), and with the others the letters were activate, but when i press the button, appears the error "underlying task reported....".
So, once again i read about the terminal, the try to changed the permissions doing sudo, but when i write the word sudo, appears the error "command not found".
Ufff, i need if somebody know about this problem, and if can guide me, because i think i'm been doing a lot of stuffs, but not in the right order.
The other solution would be if somebody knows how to recover my data (maybe in an external HD) and to make a complete new instalation.
I'll be waiting some recommendation.
Thank's in advance.
BTW: my name is Marcelo, i'm from Chile.
The story is: i borrowed my mac to my girlfriend, because she needed to instaled some programs and do some stuffs (wordlpress or something like that).
well, she experimented some issues installing that programs, so she start to find i don't know what, but the end of the story is (according she said to me) she give permissions to all (really i don't know what that means).
So, the day after i grab my mac, and do not started, appears the apple on the screen, then the little wheel, but restart itself, and again, and again, again,...
my mac is a version 10.5.8 (i dont know who animal represents that).
well, i decided to start to read about that, and the first thing i do was to enter in the single user mode and:
1) do the fsck thing......nothing.
2) mount the volume with the -uw thing.....nothing.
after that, i get a copy of the disk warrior...... i thought that's gonna save my mac, but nothing fixed, the same problem. i decided to run disk warrior like 10 times, nothing.
then i read about there's some problem with the permissions, so do the thing of chmode 775, chown, try to start the diskutil from the SUM, i think i've tried everything i've read, but nothing solved the problem.
some of the error result i'm getting are: the file is read only, sudoers is in mode xxx and should be yyy, etc. i try also some ALC or ULC stuff, but said to me i have no permissions to do that, etc
So, i get a copy of several mac instalation disk (leopard, snow leopard) and try to run the utility disk, but with the leopard the letters were gray (so can't press), and with the others the letters were activate, but when i press the button, appears the error "underlying task reported....".
So, once again i read about the terminal, the try to changed the permissions doing sudo, but when i write the word sudo, appears the error "command not found".
Ufff, i need if somebody know about this problem, and if can guide me, because i think i'm been doing a lot of stuffs, but not in the right order.
The other solution would be if somebody knows how to recover my data (maybe in an external HD) and to make a complete new instalation.
I'll be waiting some recommendation.
Thank's in advance.
BTW: my name is Marcelo, i'm from Chile.