Problem booting from Hdd

I have a problem booting from a external Hdd comes up with a command screen then a box with shutdown then restart any ideas

There must be something wrong with the data on the drive or it's hardware as you are experiencing a Kernel Panic. Run a repair on it maybe?
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lenovo s10e wont boot from hdd or usb when warm
I have ownd my Lenvo S10e about 1 year now
and now it begins to **bleep**in up
I have tryd with and without hdd and booting up live linux from USB Works good untill the lenovo s10e begins to be hot, then i got to boot then blank screen
same hapen when using the hdd,
I have bin usubg the XBMC-9.11 live linux
Its an media senter for linux
I use it to see movies onto my bigscreen tv and use my linux server as media server
When the lenovo is coold i can start xbmc no problem
I take a movie look on it when the movir is finisht and i go back Whole computer is hangup
Now i cant doing any more looking on movie untill the computer has bin coold again
This is happening with and with out HDD installed !
So what is this ?
Is it som thing that be to work ?
It is like it cuts of SATA and USB when it worm !
Sorry for my bad english..

Yes i did try to get the temp info from lm-sensors but did not get any cpu temp info or fan info.
I can tell that the Fan dont work at all running Linux !
Fan only works with Windows ! Why i dont know
I tryd my Ubuntu 9.10 - 10.04 without Sacsess, fan still off
Booted up Windows Xp Pro from a Usb stick and the fan started from then boot of windows install untill i self shoutdown the computer !
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I cannot boot from HDD nor CD/DVD drive - Satellite C

I want to recover my laptop & i need to boot from cd.
I pressed F12 first time & boot from cd but i discoverd that i have put another cd just when i restarted (correctly) i could not boot from cd neither hdd.
When i log in bios hdd was detected but not available in boot priority menu. Just network adapter was there & now i cannot boot from hdd nither cd/dvd. Bios version is 1.30
PLEASE HELP ME

> When i log in bios hdd was detected but not available in boot priority menu. Just network adapter was there & now i cannot boot from hdd nither cd/dvd.
Does this means that neither HDD nor CD/DVD drive appears in the BIOS boot option?
Strange what notebook model do you have?
Did you try to set BIOS to default?
If not do this (press F9 and save the changes in BIOS)

Problems booting from OSX DVD and External FW HDD

I've been trying recently to take a Dual-Bay Firewire Harddrive unit running a Oxford Semiconductor OXFW911 Chipset. I have two 250GB Hard drives and on one of these I have it Partitioned into 3 partitions. One is my Scratch Partition, one is the Restore of a DVD Install Disc and the last is a "Pre-Installed" version of OSX. I want to be able to boot from the Install DVD partition and the "Pre-Installed" Partition. I have successfully Imaged the Install DVD Partition and was able to boot from that partition once to install OSX on a computer without a DVD drive.
Problem now is that I can't boot from the partition, or I should say, I select it from the Sys Prefs and it will pass the grey screen to a the blue background and just get hung up. It never displays the dialog to select a language to begin the install.
I also can not boot from the Install DVD. It will show up in the Startup Disk in Sys Prefs but always ends up hanging.
I've tried booting using "Option" and it displays my Internal HD and then two icons for the Install DVD Partition on the External FW Drive. Neither one allows for me boot up.
Any ideas for what I may be missing?
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Russ

It appears that if the Partition with OSX was installed from anything besides the Restore Disc, the Powerbook won't boot to it.
I think this is ridiculous, and if I've went wrong somewhere, someone please correct me.
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Black Screen on MBP, Can hear chime and can boot from HDD via another MBP!

Hope someone can help me here, as I'm at my wits end.
I've got two issues, one with my MacBook Pro 17in, 4GB RAM, 160GB 7200rpm (2008) and another with my iMac 24in. 4GB RAM, 500GB 7200rpm (2009).
Firstly the MBP, left work on Thursday last week, got home, powered up the MBP and got a black screen!!! Tried resetting PRAM, SMC, booting in safe mode, removing and re-installing RAM, removing battery and mains power and leaving off overnight etc etc, yet nothing happens. Benn all over the forums and have not found any solution to get my beloved MBP working on it's own. I can boot off the HDD using another MBP 15in, re-install Snow Leopard and as far as I can tell the HDD is fine, as I have run disk utility and it tells me the HDD is OK.
I can't figure this out and it's doing my head in, as I use this laptop for business use and just can't afford to go out and buy another Mac. I should point out that this MBP never had any issues when running on Leopard, but ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, I have had nothing, but trouble. I did a clean install, in fact I have done it at least twice, even erasing the HDD securely, both at 7pass and 35pass, yet I have had permissions issues regularly and on the odd occasion, I have also had the problem of the HDD not being recognised.
The iMac is nearly the same, but the screen is working, although the iMac doesn't see the HDD no matter what way I do, again, reset PRAM, SMC, safe boot etc etc. In truth the iMac has been a lot more unreliable, but with the screen working, if I can get any solutions here, then I'll be working to work on that without the need or hassle of working via another.
I think that the MBP is only just still under warranty, but the iMac definitely is, but I need at least one working for business use, so really only want to let Apple have one at a time to look at/repair etc.
Ideally, as the HDD is working in the MBP, if I could get a solution to the black screen issue, then I could do without the iMac for whatever time it takes, so if there is anyone out there that can help, I'd be so grateful.
One last thing, when I bought the iMac 24in., I also bought an iMac 20in., but I never upgraded the 20in. to Snow Leopard and to this day, it has worked flawlessly, without a single issue ever.
Perhaps, I'm getting paranoid here, but there seems to me to be a link between the ongoing and regularly occurring problems with both Macs ant the upgrade to Snow Leopard. Why also, or is it just pure unadulterated coincidence that both the MBP and the iMac 24in have failed at pretty much the same time??!!!!
I'm going mental here, so I hope someone out there has a better fix, then me overdosing on Prozac!!
PS
I'm not a mac expert, not good with a soldering iron either, but I'm capable of following good instructions.

Concerning your imac, have you tried installing the OS on an external drive and running the iMac from that? My friend in Texas had her iMac's hard drive vanish, so we installed the OS on an external FireWire drive I happened to have and then restored her data from a recent backup. So far I haven't had time to install the drive in her iMac, so it's been running off of the external for a long time now. Perhaps you could do something like that so you could at least have the use of the iMac while your MBP is in the shop. Once you get the MBP back, you can send in the iMac.
Be sure to report both of these to Apple and get case numbers so that you can document that the issues started while you were still under warranty--especially for the MBP that's about to go out of warranty.
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IMac won't boot from HDD or CD. Help!?

Hi,
I recently came back from holiday for a couple of weeks and sat down to start my iMac (24" C2D). The machine just sat at a white screen and wouldn't go anywhere. Thought, ah, I'll just reset the PRAM (unplugged power cable for a min or so), and still same problem. Eventually I got the mac to boot by holding down the power button, the long beep sounded and the mac booted. All was well, until the next time I powered it down. Same thing, however same resolution didnt work...
After numerous attempts holding c, I've managed to boot into the mac installer, which said it couldnt repair the drive through disk utility. As I have time machine backup, thought I'll just start from scratch. Created a new partition (just to make sure everything was fresh), verified disk (no problems), started installer and it crashed towards the very end of the install (just over 1 hour in) with errors of being unable to copy files. After another few hours, managed to boot from CD again, this time install started, left it running overnight, only to find the mac in the morning on, but with a black screen. I've had to power it off and now I'm left with the same issue of a white screen and being unable to boot from CD.
Does any of this make sense to anyone? Could be a failed HDD, but why would I have the issue with the iMac generally refusing to boot from CD? Ran hardware diagnostic (extended) and no problems found.
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I assume that model has a back up battery in it? If so, have you changed it recently? If not you may want to replace it. In the meantime, try removing it completely and see if it starts up any better. If the battery is right on the hairy edge of good/too low, it might be corrupting the PRAM (or whatever they call it now on new models) causing start up issues. If you remove it, you won't retain a lot of settings such as Date and Time, but you should also be able to boot up eat time with all default values.
I had the same sort of issue with my eMac and pulling the battery cleared it up. That was many months ago and one of these days I might get around to buying a replacement battery... or not.
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X-Serve refuses to boot from HDD

Hi!
Short version: We have an X-serve, a later Xeon but not the latest that for some reason refuses to boot from any internal HDD both original Apple branded 80GBs and newer ones that works fine in other X-Serves we have.
Full:
The X-Serve was delivered with 10.5 but in order to use the OD with some other servers that runs on 10.6 I took out the org drive and put in a newer 750GB drive that we use in the other X-Serves and some MacPros with no problems.
This problematic X-Serve boots happily on the OS-X Server installer DVD. I format/partition the 750GB drive and installs 10.6 server on it. After installation and reboot it refuses to boot from the newly installed HDD.
I initially thought that the PRAM battery was out but If try bless -- info running on the installer DVD it correctly indentify the 750 drive and blessed system folder. I can also set it and the machine sets and reads the bless info. I can put in a cloned system drive (80GB original Apple HDD) from another identical X-Serve and it refuses to boot from it even if bless again reports a correct path and folder to the cloned 80GB drive.
I have also tried to install a 10.5 server system from the very DVD that the server was delivered with without luck.
Left to do is to install a new system on USB drive/stick or FW drive. But to be able to use the machine in production we cannot rely on external HDD of course.
So I'm open to suggestions and ideas – what can I do to get it up and running booting on HDD?
Could it still be a battery issue?
Regards, Per Mattsson
[email protected] – www.miun.se

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MacBook can't boot from HDD

Hello friends!
Please help me with my macbook late 2009.
I was a problem with SMC conntroller and take mac to service. After one week i took it and all looks good, working for few days without any issues. Today, after 2 hours of use my mac is hung and i use hard reset to reboot it. After reboot, gray screen appears without any action. I tried to reboot it again and again and after 5-10 attempts I see all my disk partitions with recovery mode and tried to start DISK UTILITY to test hdd. Disk utility also hung on scanning disks. I have no luck to tried start it again - always gray screen, question folder or O with /. I tested old hdd with other mac and it's worked fine, I tried to use another, new 1Tb WD HDD 2.5 - connected it and try to power on with recovery flash drive. Mac started without issues and I can boot from flash drive, started disk utility but mac can't find new HDD at all. Please note - I use a lot of methods, tried to reset SMC / PRAM/VRAM without luck. Safe mode also not helped, verbose mode show me "Still waiting root device" error for old HDD, but sometimes mac show all my old disk partitions - after I chose Macintosh HD - I see O with / and that's all.
Please help me to figure out issue. I think this not a HW issue... but why mac not show new HDD? Really very strange problem, all day with tests w/o luck..SMC controller looks to be working fine - mac starts, charge battery, cooler speed is managed by motherboard fine.
May be new HDD is incompatible?
Old HDD -
Looking forward for your suggestions.

Looks like this is hdd flex cable issue... I just move it when mac starts and partition select menu appears instead of grey screen or question mark. When I select partition (recovery or macintosh hd) after 20-30 seconds I see O w /.
Can anyone confirm that this might be? I will order new flex so this should be solution or not? I read a lot of google links and see that this is often problem for 2009-2010 macs.
Still waiting your advices
Apple should improve these type of cables as this not reliable as I think.

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Re: Satellite L310 - Can't boot from HDD

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My L310 just died on me yesterday. My system just can't boot, not even in Safe Mode. And it keeps trying to boot via my network card, not through hard disk.
I have set it to the default BIOS settings but it doesn't help.
And it has this continuous loud beeping tone when it tries to boot via the network card. Beeping continues, even at the BIOS screen and during safe mode.
I have manually selected the hard drive but it keeps trying to boot through the network card.
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http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
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I'm having trouble booting my MacBook from an external USB drive.
I've created a bootable backup of my hard drive, using SuperDuper! (in order to be able to install a bigger hard drive and restore my current drive state). If, with the drive attached, I restart and hold down Alt (which I understand should offer a choice of drives from which to boot), I get nothing but grey screen (ie. the first grey you see before the apple logo comes up right at the start of startup). I have been able to boot from the external drive by changing Startup Disk settings, so I'm sure there's no problem with the external disk volume.
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Hey guys,
Thanks for the feedback... here's my update (still no joy):
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• After holding that Alt key for a very long time, my MacBook did show me something other than a plain grey screen: a single, large, internal HD icon in the middle of the screen, above a vertical arrow icon. I take this to mean that the MacBook is recognising the internal HDD and no other volume. The external drive was still plugged into the USB port.
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Quote from: RemusM on 12-June-14, 17:51:30
The P965 Neo motherboard is 8 years old, so don't expect miracles. .... You need to format the USB stick in the proper way. You may use this utility to do it: hxxp://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/ Also, it's a good idea to use the first (USB0) connector (controlled by Intel ICH8) for the USB flash drive. Good luck.
Thank You for your fast response, RemusM!
I'm not looking for a miracle. I'm just looking for a mobo that does what it is supposed to do: Allow me to boot from a USB flash drive (I don't think that is too much to ask for even from a board that was made in 2006)!
Thanks for recommending FlashBoot. I see under their "Why FlashBoot" section that it "... does not shift to user the burden of choice between "USB-ZIP" and "USB-HDD" at format time and proper BIOS setup at boot time. ... and every USB disk is formatted in such way that it will work in every environment properly, regardless of current BIOS setting.", so I will give it a try and let you know about the results afterwards.

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I'm at a complete loss on this one. I'm a pretty competent Mac geek, and even I can't figure this out. Bear with me, I'll try and explain my problem as best I can. First, some basic info:
My hardware setup:
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• 1GB RAM
• 120GB internal HD, running OSX 10.4.7
The computer's internal drive is used by someone else for work during the day. I run all of my files and programs from a 2nd HD, which I boot from:
• Seagate 300GB HD
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Software:
The only recent install I've done is Super Duper, which I did after I began having problems. I used it clone my Firewire boot drive to a (backup) 400GB external USB/Firewire drive, and I restored from the clone once when I began having the problems that now appear to have come back. At the time, it appeared that restoring from the clone had solved my problems. I'm fairly certain that my problems are software-related: I've installed the drive in question in another Mac (internally), S.M.A.R.T. status appears fine. I'm not using anything awful like Norton Disk Doctor, I've tried rebuilding the volume using DiskWarrior, without success.
Problem:
I am unable to boot from my Firewire drive. When I start up using it, everything appears normal, until I get to the boot panel. The progress bar loads very slowly, and only gets about halfway finished before the login panel appears on top of it (even though the boot drive is a single-user volume, set to login automatically). The username and password fields are both blank, and if I enter my username and password it says it's incorrect.
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• Certain programs (notably iTunes and Adobe CS2 apps) periodically become unresponsive and quit. Several times I've gotten an "unknown error" message from iTunes saying that it is "unable to save the iTunes library". Both of these issues usually precede the main problem of being unable to boot/login.
• Occasionally, if I boot from the computer's internal HD and then switch on the external, it refuses to recognize it as being a formatted OSX extended (journaled) volume. Turning it off for several minutes and then turning it back on sometimes fixes it, as does repairing it using Disk Utility.
These problems have been plaguing me for months now, and with more than one external HD (although using the same enclosure). Everytime I do something to fix it, the problems seem to go away for an increasingly shorter amount of time, before reappearing, each time slightly worse than before. I'm convinced all of the issues I've been having are in some way related, I just can't figure out how they're related (or what I can do to fix them). Hopefully, one of you can help me.
iMac G3 600MHz Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1GB RAM | 120GB HD (Internal) | 300GB HD (External) | 400GB HD (External)

I occassionally get a similar problem, when playing a corrupt video via mplayer. The scrren freezes and I have to poweroff. When I log back in no user and no password is valid, even when root is enabled.
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