gadgetfreak_cc Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 Not sure what happened! It worked for three months with out a problem I am running an Acer Aspire 1 dual boot, Win XP home and Mac OSX. I was on mac os and the screen went dark. Computer wouldn't respond. Pulled the battery and still no response. Finally after a while - think it over heated... It booted back up so that I could actually see some activity on the screen, but it won't boot into Mac OS. It boots into windows! Every time I try to boot into Mac OS, I see the apple and then it gives me the error screen that says "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the restart button." If I use the boot option "-v", it just hangs after scrolling through some text. Please help. I am new to this and don't know any commands. I have a lot of work on the drive which I would really like to recover so any help is appreciated. I also tried booting from a Tiger CD and it won't seem to boot from CD even though I am telling it in the bios to do so. Please help. Can you tell I am desperate :-). Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169163-installation-worked-for-months-now-wont-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cogombo Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 First of all, don't worry about your data, because threre's some apps that can read HFS partition in windows, like "Mac Drive" or "Transmac". Other things that you can try is to boot with -f (loads all kexts) or -x (safe mode). Also you can try to read your var/log/system.log (it has stored all the information related to -v mode) to find what´s the problem. (I don't know if it's possible to see this file out of osx). I'm using a Dell Inspiron 9400, and for booting properly from CD/DVD, I must press F12, enter the CD (it doesn't work to me if I instert it BEFORE), and then press from "boot from cd". Good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169163-installation-worked-for-months-now-wont-boot/#findComment-1169385 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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