Problem booting up Mac OS X 10.4.9

I have a mac book pro.. and It was working fine.. and I went to open microsoft word and it froze so I thought it would be a good time to reboot because I hadnt in a week or so and I rebooted and when It booted up, the top tool bar appeared (the part that says like Finder, File, Edit, View - etc but only enough of it to see the Date and time, then the rest of it appeared, then all my desktop icons showed up, then the program menu in the bottom appeared, but I couldnt click anything, then the cursor changed to the spinning circle, then the screen refreshed (everything dissapeared except for my background, then it all appeared again, and it just keeps doing that until I turn it off. I tried doing the fsck thing and it said it repaired everything. The screensaver comes on, everthing appears to be fine so I have no idea what is wrong. I dont want to have to re-install anything bc I dont want to lose my files but I dont have an external harddrive so I want to try to avoid formating unless I have to.
Any idea whats wrong?
Thanks!!

$2,000 + for the machine, but don't have $100 for a bootable, external HD to backup the machine. Not a good choice. Enough of that, boot the machine with the install disk, enter your language, and, when the menu bar pops up, Utilities->Disk Utility and repair the disk and permissions. If it reveals it can't be fixed, then for another $100 get DiskWarrior and fix the HD. If it gives it a clean bill of health, then reinstall the OS selecting the Archive & Install option, saving user and network settings. If that fixes the problem, most likely a corrupted finder prefs file or a conflict with the microsloth stuff, then back the installation up. Once that's done, manually reinstall the latest COMBO and security updates. When you're convinced the OS is stable, delete the Previous System folder, and backup again.

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Hi,
In Summary:
==========
I have Mac Mini (late 2009) which does not boot anymore and I need to install Snow Leopard using retail DVD (version 10.6). The OS/installer from the DVD does not seem to boot either. I always very much appreciate the efforts of true geeks. So please, any casual beginner, please do not demoralize with something like "cannot be done" etc.
The complete story:
==================
The start of the problem:
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>> Looks like most of my problems are due to the fact that I have Mac-Mini which does not allow eject/replace of DVD from command prompt / out side of Mac-OS-X.
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9. Went to Mac store and bought this DVD only to witness that I can't boot from it as well. (This is a huge shocker, how is Apple able to sell these DVDs if these don't work on genuine MacMini itself. After all we are able to boot from and install Windows/Linux on a variety of Machines).
I am hoping for a very small step/fix that I am missing, since I can still see and access all Mac-HDD contents after booting from Ubuntu bootable DVD. However I am prepared for a good amount of exercise as well - assuming someone posts a valid/verified fix.
Things available right now:
==========================
A. Genuine Mac-Mini (Late 2009) who lost it's ability to boot either from its HDD or Mac-bootable DVDs (TechTools Pro, Mac OS X retail DVD)
B. Mac OS X 10.6 Retail DVD
C. NOT AVAILABLE - DVD that came with this Mac-Mini
D. Variety of rescue DVDs, listed in section 6 above
E. Another machine/PC with Ubuntu 11.04 - giving me ability to access internet
Thanks for reading.
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I had a similar discussion recently with another user.
Your Mac mini (late 2009) originally came with Mac OS X 10.6.2 build 10A432 or build 10C2234 see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1159 it would have come with an original install disc specific to your model of Mac which you could use to run Disk Utility from or to do a complete reinstall.
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It seems that I've done something to the stuff on the hard drive that's needed at boot time or partitioning time. I can't erase and reformat the drive, because the Leopard install DVD won't start up the machine. Even though DiskWarrior creates a directory that Disk Utility says is fine, I cannot recreate a Windows partition.
Any advice what I can or should do next? I can try using the System Install DVD that came with the laptop, or perhaps the system restore DVD, but my bet is they won't start the machine either.
Please feel free to ask any questions, send me to any other resources, or contact me via email if you have ideas. I have a 10 day business trip beginning Sunday March 30, and I desperately need a working laptop by then.
Thanks so much.

"Responding" to my own post: the Install DVD that came with my MacBook Pro will boot it!
So, I'll try running the earlier version of Disk Utility that came on IT (10.5.4, current Leopard version is 11.0) to repair the MacBook Pro's internal hard drive, THEN see if I can boot from the Leopard install disk (the notion being that I can (groan) recreate a virgin Leopard environment on the laptop with no traces of prior disk formatting nightmares.
(a few minutes later): the Leopard Installer DVD will now boot the MacBook Pro. As one last attempt to avoid the whole reinstall nightmare, I'll try running Disk Utility from the Leopard Install DVD, and if it passes, make one more attempt to create a boot camp partition on my hard drive. If that doesn't work, next step is to wipe the internal drive and do a clean install of Leopard and all my other necessary stuff.
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After Security updation of Windows 7 in Boot Camp (Mac Book Pro with Retina Display) on 13-Nov-2013, Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets are not working properly.

After Security updation of Windows 7 in Boot Camp (Mac Book Pro with Retina Display) on 13-Nov-2013, Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets are not working properly.
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<edited by host>

You are not addressing Apple, but a community of unpaid volunteers. So ASAP won't cut it. Also, you should refrain from posting personal information (like your email address) in the body of your comments, as this is part of the community usage guidelines.
Have you reinstalled the latest Boot Camp Windows 7 drivers, just in case Microsoft overwrote some of them during the Windows 7 security update?
If you want to communicate issues with Apple about Boot Camp and OS X, click on the link. Just don't hold your breath on receiving a response.

[SOLVED] MacbookPro 8,1 13" - Dual boot with Mac OS X #rEFIt

Hi everyone, I want to share my experience and request for help regarding my attempt to install Arch on my MBP 8,1. I can't count the times I've tried to install it this week.
What have I done?
So I followed the Beginner's Guide to aid me in the installation, with some exceptions:
* I used Linux Mint 14 to use GParted. The reason I used it is because rEFIt won't sync the GPT and MBR tables properly when I try and use `mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdaX` inside the Archiso. With Archiso, the filesystem types are considered to be "Unknown" (#wtf no. 1), whereas with Mint that doesn't happen.
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# /dev/sda4
UUID=c35d9121-a3f1-4cd6-ab53-61fe0f474eee / ext4 rw,noatime 0 1
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* rEFIt correctly shows Arch as a boot option. It boots correctly to Syslinux.
* The kernel load fails due to something like:
Unknown filesystem 'vfat'
... and/or ...
Waiting 10 seconds for /dev/sdaX ...
This stroke me as #wtf no.2. VFAT?? Has anyone experienced this before?
For now this is all I have. I was hoping the community could give me helpful pointers on solving this as I intend to contribute with documentation on this setup in the wiki.
I'll be updating this post with newer information. Thanks for helping!
Last edited by josemota (2012-12-31 18:05:09)

I don't have much experience with SYSLINUX or booting a Mac in BIOS mode, but I can help answer a couple of your questions and offer some alternative approaches....
josemota wrote:
Hi everyone, I want to share my experience and request for help regarding my attempt to install Arch on my MBP 8,1. I can't count the times I've tried to install it this week.
What have I done?
So I followed the Beginner's Guide to aid me in the installation, with some exceptions:
* I used Linux Mint 14 to use GParted. The reason I used it is because rEFIt won't sync the GPT and MBR tables properly when I try and use `mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdaX` inside the Archiso. With Archiso, the filesystem types are considered to be "Unknown" (#wtf no. 1), whereas with Mint that doesn't happen.
This issue is a limitation of the "gptsync" program that's included with rEFIt, not with rEFIt itself. It's also not caused by mkfs; gptsync doesn't even look inside the partitions, AFAIK. Instead, it looks at partition type codes. It understands just a few of them, including the one that all but the very latest versions of libparted use on Linux filesystem partitions. The trouble is that the libparted developers long ago "borrowed" that code from Windows, but they shouldn't have done so. That's being corrected, and gdisk can use the correct code for Linux ("8300" in gdisk). In the future, libparted will use this code, too; the support is already present but isn't yet widely distributed. You could have set the type code to "0700" in gdisk from Arch and gptsync would have worked.
You may be interested to know that gdisk can do the same job that gptsync does, and gdisk can do so much more flexibly. You can read more in the gdisk hybrid MBR documentation. Be aware that hybrid MBRs (which is what gptsync creates) are ugly and dangerous hacks. Sadly, they're necessary to dual-boot Windows and OS X on Macs, but you may be able to dual-boot OS X and Linux without a hybrid MBR. The trick here is to install an EFI boot loader for Linux rather than a BIOS boot loader for Linux. Macs use EFI natively, so this is the superior way to get started, at least theoretically.
The Arch wiki has a number of pages on EFI issues, such as:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Un … _Interface
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB_EFI_Examples
The main problem with booting a Mac in EFI mode is that some systems won't activate all their hardware in this way, so with some models you can end up with a network adapter or video display or sound that doesn't work. Other models are fine, though; you'll just have to give it a try and see if it works.
Personally, I think the best way to do it is to use the kernel's EFI stub loader in conjunction with an EFI boot manager like rEFInd or gummiboot. Both are available as Arch packages, but it's better to install from OS X, and that process is much better documented for rEFInd than for gummiboot (although you could adapt the rEFInd documentation for gummiboot, if you liked). rEFIt can work, too, but only if the kernel includes built-in command-line options and is renamed with a ".efi" extension. These are awkward requirements, and since rEFInd is a continuation of rEFIt development, there's not much point in trying to get rEFIt to do the job.

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