[HM] Re: OS X won't boot

John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com
Mon Apr 7 14:57:20 PDT 2003


On 04/06/03,  wayne rankin <terry at rivernet.net> wrote:
>
> Bless you. Holding down X forced it to boot into OS X (holding down
> OPTION showed only OS 9). It wouldn't actually load all the way (just
> cycled the intro screen - trying to repair, I guess) so after 2 minutes
> I hit restart and it then booted all the way into OS X. There's still a
> problem that needs repair but until DISK WARRIOR 3 (for OS X) comes
> out, I was hoping to co-exist with the problem. Back on track for that
> now.

You shouldn't have to wait for DW. Startup with your install OS X CD, open
Disk Utility, and run the Repair Disk/Permissions options. That should fix
whatever's ailing it.

HTH



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