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Sian - Aug 8, 2005 - 7:18 am

I have an ibook (first generation January 2001) and last might used I firewire for the first time to transfer some files from my G5 to the ibook. Both systems run OSX Tiger. Everything went well except that the ibook does not now restart. I have tried restting PRAM (which has always worked in past) and I ran the diagnostics disc that came with ibook and the hardware was all okay. The iBook starts up but the progress bar seems to freeze just before its full.

Many thanks for your help.

Reikon - Aug 8, 2005 - 11:12 am

Try booting while holding Apple+S. When you load into the screen with white text and the prompt says root# type: fsck -yf

Wait until it's done, then type: exit

See if that helped.

Sian - Aug 10, 2005 - 6:46 am

Dear Thomas

Have typed in fsck-yf but nothing seems to be happening its been 10 minutes now?

In the type that has come up it says

single user boot - fsck-yf not done
Root device is mounted read only
If you want to make modification to files
run '/sbin/fsck-y' first and then 'sbin/mount -uw'


Thanks for you help I really appreciate it.

Sian

Sian - Aug 10, 2005 - 6:51 am

Dear Thomas

When I hit enter it says -sh: fsck-yf: command not found

Thanks

Sian

Reikon - Aug 10, 2005 - 12:06 pm

It's fsck -yf not fsck-yf. There is a space between the fsck and the hyphen.

Sian - Aug 10, 2005 - 4:27 pm

many thanks - has repaired something but still hanging. I repeated the process just incase and it now sas HD is fine but still hangs on the progress bar.

Anything else?
Thanks
Sian

Reikon - Aug 10, 2005 - 5:40 pm

Try rebooting and holding Apple+Option+O+F

When you get to a gray screen with black text, type: reset-all

This time with no space before the hyphen. Then type: mac-boot

Does that fix anything?

Sian - Aug 11, 2005 - 5:26 am

Good morning

I have tried this but no success

I have not been able to type mac-boot after reset-all as it just fires up and hangs.

Next please?

Thanks

Sian

Reikon - Aug 11, 2005 - 1:19 pm

It seems as if something has become corrupted, I suggest you take the computer to a technician and have it checked out, and if they can't find anything wrong, re-install Mac OS X.

Sian - Aug 11, 2005 - 4:48 pm

Thanks _ I have reinstalled it and it works now. I will leave firewire alone me thinks:-)

Sian