[G4] I need help with OSX

Philip J Robar philip.robar at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 17:33:22 PDT 2006


On Jul 12, 2006, at 4:32 PM, J.M.P.Hissel wrote:

> On 12-07-2006 23:21, SLarsonIH at aol.com, SLarsonIH at aol.com, wrote:
>
>> Where do I go from here?
>
> By not forgetting the following:
> 1) Disk Repair you ONLY can do on a disk while booted up from  
> another disk!

This is not completely true. You can boot into single user mode and  
run fsck, but Apple says that it's preferable to use Disk Utility so  
if you don't have an install disc or alternate boot disk you should  
boot into safe mode. In safe mode disk repairs are done as part of  
the boot process.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214


Phil



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