Problem booting w520

Hi,
I'm having a problem booting my w520. I suspected that I had bad ram (unrelated issue), so I ran the windows memory diagnostics tool. I plugged it into my AC adapter that came with the laptop, and left it running since it takes a long time. When I came back the laptop was on the screen asking me whether to boot from the windows boot manager, my SSD drive or my DVD drive, which I thought was weird. I selected the windows boot manager, it gave an error (could not initialize BTI or something like that which I wish that I remembered now). I tried to restart the laptop, but it refuses to do so. Instead of starting up, it goes into a reset loop -- it starts up, I the keyboard LED light comes on, and then it restarts. It does that loop every 5 seconds or so. Nothing is displayed on the screen, and there are no beeps. It never gets to the post screen. The only way to get it to do anything different is to remove all RAM, in which case it does that 1 3 3 1 beep sequence. From other threads I followed suggestions to unplug it, remove the battery and do all sorts of pressing/holding power buttons for 10-30 times. Nothing helps.
So, I'm wondering now, is there anything else I can do before I let someone repair this? It was working just fine before I ran the memory test. Did someone who had the same problem find a solution to this?
Thanks for the advice.

You have already done a few of the things I would suggest. You could try one memory chip at a time in one memory slot at a time.
If you still have warranty now would be a good time to make a call for service.
Brad

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As a quick update in case anyone is reading this, I cleaned up the script a bit and hopefully made it something closer to a "proper" fix.
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Again, there are more, but I can't find them all just now.
I've looked EVERYWHERE for a solution.
My question is, does anyone have any ideas on how I might make my computer bootable?
Almost forgot; I've run
mkinitcpio -p linux
successfully (I get the two driver warnings that seem to be standard).
Computer specifications are as follows:
Model Identifier: MacBookPro6,2 (mid 2010)
Processor Name: Intel i7
Architecture: amd64
RAM: 4GB DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512MB
Software: OS X 10.9.2
My disk partition table is as follows:
$gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.9
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Fround valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): C0ADB511-F73D-404A-B128-DD01509AE6EA
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 262150 sectors (128.0MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name [Additional Info]
1 * * 200.0MiB EF00 EFI System Partition rEFInd currently installed here, mounts to /boot/efi
2 * * 185.8GiB AF00 OSX
3 * * 619.9MiB AB00 Recovery HD
4 * * 93.1GiB AF00 DMZ unjouranaled HFS+ shared partition
5 * * 4.0GiB 8200 Arch Swap
6 * * 128.0MiB 8300 Arch Boot ext2
7 * * 50.0GiB 8300 Arch Root ext4
8 * * 131.8GiB 8300 Arch Home ext4
And my fstab, made with genfstab after I mounted everything (except for the swap stanza, which I had to write):
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# UUID=2b121a89-aeb9-430a-8e6c-a05b79f08427
/dev/sda7 / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
# UUID=efb41f69-6f99-4c8b-8431-01f3cd22c9cc
/dev/sda6 /boot ext2 rw,relatime 0 2
# UUID=67E3-17ED LABEL=EFI
/dev/sda1 /boot/efi vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed, errors=remount-ro 0 2
# UUID=[another long UUID]
/dev/sda8 /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 2
# UUID=[another long UUID] LABEL=DMZ
/dev/sda4 /dmz hfsplus rw,relatime,unmask=22,uid=0,gid=0,nls=utf8 0 0
# UUID=[another long UUID]
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
Last edited by rjmh (2014-04-04 08:35:20)

henriqueleng wrote:
I don't know about Mac computers but i use a uefi motehrboard,
To install it i created a partition with 512MB and i mounted /boot on there. all the rest of system are normal.
I use gummiboot, i don't know if its stuff on Mac. I think that ou should try another bootloader!
And why do you mounted two point on /boot?
/boot and /boot/efi?
Are you sure you're using uefi, my fstab looks just like his with the boot and efi partition. I'm pretty sure that's how the wiki says to set it up. That's the fstab for a laptop with uefi if it helps you out. I had problems with grub btw, so I had to set up gummiboot
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sdb3
UUID=0c1c97a3-0472-4141-a756-a03c00a4a3cf / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered,discard 0 1
# /dev/sda3
UUID=8a4412fa-5d4b-4de4-91ff-a4d05b3705e1 /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 2
# /dev/sdb2
UUID=971ed3e8-394d-46b3-b0d4-e8bb86b267cf /boot ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered,discard 0 2
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=095C-CB43 /boot/efi vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 2
# /dev/sda1
UUID=12a4a2b1-6338-495a-8a41-474653eb227b /var ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 2
# /dev/sda2
UUID=846803f1-3f5b-48ae-9945-37e9725011b2 none swap defaults 0 0

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