sh-2.05a# appears on startup
Hello all,
The other day my Mac crashed and when I rebooted my PowerBooks hard disk wouldn't mount. I installed OS X (Jaguar 10.2) on my external FireWire disk and booted from that, updating it when I got OS X up.
When booted from that the main hdd wouldn't mount.
DiskUtility from the OS X disk found problems with the hdd but couldn't repair them.
So today I bought DiskWarrior having seen it perform miracles before, I let it do it's stuff, managed to copy my important data onto my FireWire drive.
So tried to boot from the main drive and the apple logo appears on the screen but then as if on top in the top left corner the unix prompt sh-2.05a# appears and the machine stops booting, OS X doesn't load up.
I used fsck -y to test the disk and it appears to be OK.
But why won't OS X load? Start Up Disk in preferences see's the installation when booted from the FireWire drive, I don't know what to do any suggestions?
I don't really want to but will I have to reformat and reinstall OS X? It doesn't reallyt seem necessary but i might be wrong?
The other day my Mac crashed and when I rebooted my PowerBooks hard disk wouldn't mount. I installed OS X (Jaguar 10.2) on my external FireWire disk and booted from that, updating it when I got OS X up.
When booted from that the main hdd wouldn't mount.
DiskUtility from the OS X disk found problems with the hdd but couldn't repair them.
So today I bought DiskWarrior having seen it perform miracles before, I let it do it's stuff, managed to copy my important data onto my FireWire drive.
So tried to boot from the main drive and the apple logo appears on the screen but then as if on top in the top left corner the unix prompt sh-2.05a# appears and the machine stops booting, OS X doesn't load up.
I used fsck -y to test the disk and it appears to be OK.
But why won't OS X load? Start Up Disk in preferences see's the installation when booted from the FireWire drive, I don't know what to do any suggestions?
I don't really want to but will I have to reformat and reinstall OS X? It doesn't reallyt seem necessary but i might be wrong?