Maverick not booting, not even in safe mode
Mavericks was running smooth since release.
Yesterday I started having no sound with iTunes and GarageBand.
So I restarted but booting got stuck at the first grey apple screen with the spinning wheel.
I rebooted in recovery mode and repaired disk and disk permissions. Still no luck.
Rebooting in safe mode won't work either.
I do have rEFIt installed.
Thanks for help.
Paolo
I get "Problems sere encountered during repair of The partition map" when I ask Disk Utility to "Repair Disk" at the top level of the disk hierarchy (i.e. not on one of the partitions within the disk but on the disk itself).
And: Error: Live file system repair si not supported.
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Boot from your OS X install DVD.
You always need to have a 2nd backup you can boot from, or an emergency (only) boot drive.
Disk Warrior does not have 10.5.2+.
If you can't do anything, zap pram, see if that helps. Or pull your drives and boot from your DVD. Setup OS X on a FW drive.
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The problem persists when we perform a Windows clean boot, right?
Were the Office programs suddenly not working? Or it just can’t be open after you install it? Did you get any error message?
If you haven’t try a repair of your Office installation, we can try it to check the result:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project-help/repair-office-programs-HA010357402.aspx
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