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Long Day Already..
Jul. 19th, 2012 06:54 pmI left my seven month old, high-end iMac running overnight to finish uploading some photos for printing. This morning I found the job finished. I closed the app and restarted. The boot proceeded to the grey screen with the Apple logo and the spinning timer and hung.
Powered down and tried again. Same result. Powered down and tried to boot to safe mode. It got to the grey screen with the Apple logo and the spinning timer and the grey task bar; figured things would soon be fine. However, the task bar went about halfway across and disappeared, leaving the grey screen with the Apple logo and the spinning timer, and it was hung again. Tried again, same result.
Booted in PARM mode. Got to the grey screen with the Apple logo and hung, though with no spinning timer. Repeatedly
Tried using a rescue DVD. Booted to the the grey screen with the Apple logo and spinning timer and I heard the drive run for a few seconds, then stop. I was left hung, again. Also, the DVD would not eject.
Tried a few more iterations. Tried ejecting the DVD by (using a USB mouse instead of the usual Bluetooth) holding a mouse button down while booting. Could not get the disk to eject or the computer to boot.
Went to lunch with friends, and ran some errands. Got back home a bit after two and resumed. (Note that I booted my MacBook Pro in the morning to use for e-mail and such while working on the iMac.)
Reading in my manuals and some online help pages (on the laptop) I unplugged the turned-off iMac for a while, then replugged and tried for a normal boot. It got to the grey screen with the Apple logo and the spinning timer and hung. However, shutting off and restarting while holding the F12 key down I got the recovery DVD to eject. I then tried both a normal boot and a safe mode boot, to no avail. Then I tried powering up while holding the Option key down. Success!
Well, sorta. I got to the screen where you are supposed to use the mouse pointer to choose the boot drive, but the pointer would barely move and then only vertically (it's a non-Apple mouse). Fortunately, the drive I wanted was already selected, so I just hit Enter.
Huzzah! I have a Desktop!
Ran Disk Utility on the hard drive, and was able to get a normal boot.
Powered down and tried again. Same result. Powered down and tried to boot to safe mode. It got to the grey screen with the Apple logo and the spinning timer and the grey task bar; figured things would soon be fine. However, the task bar went about halfway across and disappeared, leaving the grey screen with the Apple logo and the spinning timer, and it was hung again. Tried again, same result.
Booted in PARM mode. Got to the grey screen with the Apple logo and hung, though with no spinning timer. Repeatedly
Tried using a rescue DVD. Booted to the the grey screen with the Apple logo and spinning timer and I heard the drive run for a few seconds, then stop. I was left hung, again. Also, the DVD would not eject.
Tried a few more iterations. Tried ejecting the DVD by (using a USB mouse instead of the usual Bluetooth) holding a mouse button down while booting. Could not get the disk to eject or the computer to boot.
Went to lunch with friends, and ran some errands. Got back home a bit after two and resumed. (Note that I booted my MacBook Pro in the morning to use for e-mail and such while working on the iMac.)
Reading in my manuals and some online help pages (on the laptop) I unplugged the turned-off iMac for a while, then replugged and tried for a normal boot. It got to the grey screen with the Apple logo and the spinning timer and hung. However, shutting off and restarting while holding the F12 key down I got the recovery DVD to eject. I then tried both a normal boot and a safe mode boot, to no avail. Then I tried powering up while holding the Option key down. Success!
Well, sorta. I got to the screen where you are supposed to use the mouse pointer to choose the boot drive, but the pointer would barely move and then only vertically (it's a non-Apple mouse). Fortunately, the drive I wanted was already selected, so I just hit Enter.
Huzzah! I have a Desktop!
Ran Disk Utility on the hard drive, and was able to get a normal boot.
