Kage_ Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 Hey Yall, I'm wondering if anyone has seen this before. Some times when I boot up X hangs and panics. Looking at the startup info I'm seeing hfs_mountroot failed: 5. I can reboot a couple of times and X will then boot with no problems at all. I have done a check disk and repair permissions, but it doesn't have seemed to help. Any suggestions? My hardware specs are below. I know my drive is good since I can boot into XP w/ no issues. Also what is the flag to boot into single user mode. I thought it was -s, but that didn't seem to work. Kage_ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39165-machine-randomly-wont-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kage_ Posted January 19, 2007 Author Share Posted January 19, 2007 I'm also randomly see 'hfs_swap_BTNode: invalid forward line' along w/ the error above. -s is single user mode, not sure why I couldn't get it to work earlier... *shrug* Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39165-machine-randomly-wont-boot/#findComment-279154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
caracols Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 Hey Yall, I'm wondering if anyone has seen this before. Some times when I boot up X hangs and panics. Looking at the startup info I'm seeing hfs_mountroot failed: 5. I can reboot a couple of times and X will then boot with no problems at all. I have done a check disk and repair permissions, but it doesn't have seemed to help. Any suggestions? My hardware specs are below. I know my drive is good since I can boot into XP w/ no issues. Also what is the flag to boot into single user mode. I thought it was -s, but that didn't seem to work. Kage_ I'm getting the exact same problem you're suffering. I'll make some photos of the boot process later so hopefully somebody could help us. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39165-machine-randomly-wont-boot/#findComment-279506 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kage_ Posted January 19, 2007 Author Share Posted January 19, 2007 I found this thread about booting issues in 10.4.8, but I havn't gotten a reply to see if they were seeing the same issue. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...c=38125&hl= Kage_ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39165-machine-randomly-wont-boot/#findComment-279754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
caracols Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 I found this thread about booting issues in 10.4.8, but I havn't gotten a reply to see if they were seeing the same issue. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...c=38125&hl= Kage_ Lately i've been reseting and rebooting just fine, no hangups on bootloader I read somewhere that partitions with OSX had booting problems on hard disk where there's more than two partitions or when the OSX partition is next to a logical one. I'm trying to take some pics of the faulty boot messages, i'll upload them as soon as they happen again lol Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39165-machine-randomly-wont-boot/#findComment-279836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kage_ Posted January 20, 2007 Author Share Posted January 20, 2007 I have OS X and XP installed. OS X is the first partition and XP is the 2nd. From the thread I referenced I think there's some bug in the 10.4.8 disk utils that can cause this problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39165-machine-randomly-wont-boot/#findComment-279841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts