N!CK Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 okay, i did a clean install of OSX (Jas 10.4.7) after putting a new hdd in (old one came apart on the inside, kinda cool) and after i reinstalled OSX on the new one i get a forever apple boot screen, when i boot in using F8 i get the follwing. May 30 12:58:01 localhost memberd[55]: dsFindDirNodes returned -14071, count = 0May 30 12:58:01 localhost memberd[55]: dsFindDirNodes returned -14071, count = 1610603584 May 30 12:58:01 localhost memberd[55]: Couldn't find root user. Sleeping and trying again. disk1s1: I/O error. ...and it repeats this ^^^^ over and over (its been going about 1 hr. now) Is the read/write error the problem? or did the install get messed up? ive installed twice once with the SSE3 patch Once without. Before the SSE3 patch caused a similar problem, even though i have an SSE3 Intel P4. any help is greatly appreciated, thank you for taking the time to look! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canoodle Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Hi there N!CKA55 i am sharing your pain! after installing 2G of Buffallo RAM my macbook core 2 duo 2.16Ghz is behaving weirdly.... but i think it's not the ram (tested it, insert macos setup cd1 HOLD D -> Hardware test)it could be that a file corruption occured and now MacOS can not find the root account (or config files belonging to it) anymore. IF YOU HOLD DOWN COMMAND(APEL)KEY+V -> VERBOSE MODE -> DISPLAY BOOT INFORMATIONS -> I get the same errors as you state above "couldn't find root user" sleeping and trying again. couldn't find root user dsFindDirNodes returned -14071 count 0 repeats and repeats... and finally results in Debugger panic: Unresolved kernel trap CPU1 type 14=pages fault registers: panic(cpu1 caller 0x00... debugger called: <panic> backtrac, format -frame : return address (4 potential args on stack).. lots of hex values... backtrace terminated... kernel version darwin kernel version 8.10.1 YOU KNOW WHAT IS GREAT? I can not even boot MacOSX setup from CDROM1... BUT I CAN BOOT FROM KNOPPIX 5.0 DVD AND VISTA 64BIT JUST FINE! with a mount your hfsplus drive on knoppix via: sudo mount –t hfsplus /dev/sda2 /yourpathtothe/mountpoint/ any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 What kind of drive is that? Did you make sure that it is configured as MASTER and plugged in the correct position (if IDE)? hecker PS: You can try removing other hardware devices that may be causing trouble as well. I also recall getting this msg when I tried plugging my DVD-Rom together with a HDD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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