In article <C4928E8C.AB65%ghost_topper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
George Kerby <ghost_topper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 7/3/08 1:20 PM, in article
> jollyroger-F8F79A.13203303072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Jolly Roger"
> <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > You might consider booting into Leopard in single user mode, and doing
a
> > bunch of repeated fsck runs, to see if you can find anything wrong
with
> > the hard drive.
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> I have done a disk utility run from The Leopard CD on the internal drive
> previously, but will give it a go.
And it re****ted no problems?
> Is it "Command + s" to get the Single User up?
Yes: <http://sup****t.apple.com/kb/HT1492>
> And repeat the prompt (without brackets) <fsck -y> (with space between
the
> "k" and the "-" until it encounters no problem and re****ts the drive is
OK?
I'm pretty sure that's how you do it, yes. It's been a while though,
for me. 'man fsck' will tell you how.
> What if it doesn't find anything wrong, or cannot fix it?
If it finds nothing wrong, then we're back to the "remove half of the
RAM chips, rinse, lather, repeat" thing - and really, you should do that
regardless of this!
> Does <exit> get me out?
I think what you want is 'reboot': <http://sup****t.apple.com/kb/HT1492>
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