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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 10.6 no longer boots.
Date: 10 Aug 2014 18:50:50 GMT
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On 2014-08-10, Siri Crews <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In article <mcmurtrie-3871F7.22313309082014@news.sonic.net>,
>  Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> wrote:
>
>> Try booting into single user mode and fully reading the disk device with 
>> 'dd' or one of the 'fsck' options.  I've had bad experiences with 
>> Hitachi failing while still reporting a good SMART status.  MacOS X 
>> rarely reports fatal disk I/O errors on its own.
>
> I finally got the 64-bit 10.6 up again, but then it failed on reboot, so, crap, 
> that means a race condition (unlikely) or a flakey disk or disk sector. Oh, 
> well. I got an external disk with more than enough spare room, so I can copying 
> off to a spare and all that kind of nonsense. Oh, mother pus bucket.

You tried resetting the PRAM and SMC/PMU?

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