A lot of corruption problems |
crazy_canuck 02-20-2003, 07:27 PM About a month ago, I experienced a Kernel Panic (I got unix lines on my screen, and iTunes kept on playing a 3 second loop of a song, also i couldn't do anything - I think thats a Kernel Panic). I restarted and it was fine.
About 3 days ago, I tried to restart in 9.2.2 and I got a bomb, and I was told by AppleTech to initialize my computer and reinstall all os's. What happened was that DiskRepair said my disk was damaged, and my Btree, Custom Icon were missing, and there was some serious problems that couldn't be repaired.
I did that, and today I used the combo updater (10.1 upgrade to 10.3) and then textedit unexpectidly quit, and while installing, no restart happened, and Installer vanished from the screen, no Unexpectedly quit, nothing.
Installer would take forever to relaunch and never showed up.
I restarted, and my mouse wouldn't work, Control Eject (to bring up the restart, cancel, shutdown, sleep menu) wouldn't work either,
Again I called AppleTech, and I was told to "dirty install' OS 10.1 and I did. I reinstalled 10.1. I was told again it was a corruption
I'm wondering if anyone knows whats going on, and if I should upgrade again to 10.1.3, and then proceed to 10.1.4, or leave it, which I don't want to do.
Can someone PLEASE help me?
grrl_geek 02-20-2003, 08:49 PM The error messages you have make it sound like you have some serious system corruption going on. Disk Repair can't fix more than the basics.
If you have, or can get a hold of a recent version of Diskwarrior & Norton Disk Doctor, that might solve your problems. Run Norton and then Diskwarrior.
Otherwise, I would reformat & reinstall. Install 10.1 and then apply the 10.1.5 combo updater.
Good luck! :)
crazy_canuck 02-21-2003, 09:22 PM I reinstalled Os 10.1. What a hassle.
Thanks for the help.
Now i just need to partition my HD. Something I don't know how to do:(
crazy_canuck, unfortunately, you need to partition your drive (which you can do with Disk Utility, Partition tab) prior to installing the OS. A repartition totally wipes your drive which, given your recent experiences, isn't exactly good news.
crazy_canuck 02-22-2003, 01:05 PM Oh, Ok thanks. just wondering, can I install OS 9 on another partition, and then get rid of it from my HD so I don't have to reinstall OS 10?
Can you be a bit more detailed about what you're trying to achieve, or what you want to acheive? As it is I'm not sure I've followed you.
For example, is your disk currently partitioned? What do you want to delete and why? And so on.
crazy_canuck 02-23-2003, 11:44 AM Ok sorry about that.
No, it isn't partitioned right now.
What I want is to have OS 9.2.2 on one partition, and OS 10.1.5 on the other. Currently they are on the same partiton.
Is there any way to create a new partition, leave my current disk untouched, and then install 9.2 on that partition. So my setup would be
Disk 1: OS X and 9
New Partition: OS 9
From there I would delete OS 9 from my first/current disk. Is this possible?
Thanks a lot. I really appreciate your help:)
No, as far as I'm aware that isn't possible. Creating a new partition map wipes the entire drive; i.e. everything will be erased, hence my previous comment about this not being good news.
What you need to do is create the partitions then install OS X on one and 9.2.2 on the other.
crazy_canuck 02-23-2003, 05:55 PM Ok thanks a lot.
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