I have a new iMac (recently setup) that was working fine .... anyway it's now very broken.
It hangs FOREVER after displaying 'Starting Directory Services'. The iMac will not boot from the MacOS9.1 CD I have (this is not the CD that shipped with the computer - does this matter!)
It will not boot when starting up from ROM and typing 'mac-boot' (hangs in the same place as above.
I started in Single User mode and did a file system check (said it was modified) but still the same problem exists.
I don't want to restore (blow away) the volume as I do not know what user files are currently on the disk (the owner is on holiday). I simply want to boot into MacOS9 so I can see whats there!
Any ideas?
Thank you
Mike
Gerard Schlundt
02-18-2002, 12:08 PM
When this happend to me, I had to pull the hard drive out and install another drive...install OSX on it, then use the 'old' origional "mac" drive and read the data off of it. Ugly but it worked.
I love my mac -- Don't get me wrong. The lack of reliable, cheap, and cheap backup media readily avilalble is a mistake on apples part.
DVD-R/CDR is inconvenient to work with...I HOPE that the iMac users who have very little or no technical skills don't get burned too badly and tarnish the apple name.
liosha
02-19-2002, 07:59 AM
I did next on my old iMac DV - just booted from Mac OS X Install CD and reinstalled OS X (I had no time to search for the couse of trouble) and then updated to 10.1.2. So I've got my system working, files safe, preferences alright, etc.
But after that I used my iMac more accurate and always tracking what I change in system. I don't need such radical medicine.
But, again, it has worked.
I had the same thing with my FP iMac when I wantedd to reboot in OS 9.2.1. My OS 9 CD wouldn't start up, netiher would the OSX software reset CD. But my OS X install CD did. I just reinstalled the whole OS X, and rebooted. I worries me, but I'm up and running again. Hope it helps in some way.
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