rj1 Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 I have a D630 2GHz, 2GB Ram, Intel x3100, 1280 x 800 display - running 10.6.7 and it was all happy until I tried to mirror the display with an external monitor. The system went haywire and I had to reboot it. Now it gets stuck at the very beginning of the boot process. If I do a verbose boot I just get this one line - "Loaded HFS+ file: [system/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist] 479 bytes from 4255630." - and then it just sits there doing nothing. Any Ideas please? Greatly appreciated. I have another small partition called Spare on the same disk with an OS only install on it and this still boots fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted August 4, 2011 Administrators Share Posted August 4, 2011 try booting -x -v Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rj1 Posted August 5, 2011 Author Share Posted August 5, 2011 On 8/4/2011 at 3:41 PM, Bronxteck said: try booting -x -v Hi, thanks for responding. I tries it and it still gets stuck in exactly the same way. Incedentally -x boots it into single user doesn't it - what would I do when I got there? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted August 5, 2011 Administrators Share Posted August 5, 2011 no single user mode is -s. -x is "safemode". have you tried edp fixes section mirror mode fix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rj1 Posted August 8, 2011 Author Share Posted August 8, 2011 Woops, thanks for the correction. I just spotted that feature in EDP today when I was installing my other machine so I'll try it in the morning. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rj1 Posted August 8, 2011 Author Share Posted August 8, 2011 OK, I installed EDP 1.9 on the damaged partition, and ran option 3/7 which is to fix the mirror issue. My machine still sticks at the same point when I try to boot it from the damaged partition. Is there a way to target EDP at a particular partition or does it run from: A, the booted partition, or; B, the partition it is installed on (in which case it failed to fix my problem)? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted August 9, 2011 Administrators Share Posted August 9, 2011 edp runs on the "installed to" partition/drive so no it did not correct your issue. have you tried to repair the partition from the other working partition using disk utility? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rj1 Posted August 9, 2011 Author Share Posted August 9, 2011 On 8/9/2011 at 1:26 AM, Bronxteck said: edp runs on the "installed to" partition/drive so no it did not correct your issue. have you tried to repair the partition from the other working partition using disk utility? OK, did a repair - disk totally fine, no errors reported. Did repair permissions. Still hangs in the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted August 9, 2011 Administrators Share Posted August 9, 2011 re run if you can 10.6.8 combo update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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