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Old 18-02-2005, 12:15 PM
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Needing a bit of help here.

I was playing around with the settings on a clean-up program called Cocktail last night on a friend's powerbook, and must have set it to Single User Boot.

This morning after turning on the Pbook, my friend rings me and describes a black screen with jargon on it similar to DOS...(the comparison is slightly insulting, but because she was panicking I couldn't say much..lol). Anyway, this is what the part that was understandable said:

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Fri Feb 18 12:59:17 EST 2005
Singleuser boot *-- fsck not done
Root device is mounted read-only
If you want to make modifications ot files,
run '/sbin/fsck -y' first and then '/sbin/mount -uw /'
localhost:/ root# *<-- Around here I typed in /sbin/fsck -y and the following is what happened

**/dev/rdisck0s3
**Root file system
**Checking HFS Plus volume
fsck_hfs: Volume is journaled. No checking performed.
fsck_hfs: Use the -f option to force checking 
localhost:/ root#
Soooooooo....since it's my fault the Pbook turned out this way..and it's not even mine.. :blink: I need urgent help to decipher all this, and how to get it back to the normal set up.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Old 18-02-2005, 12:31 PM
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Ahhhhhhhh..

Well, this is embarassing. After looking around the net I came across this site

http://www.securemac.com/macosxsingleuser.php

and uh..after typing exit it booted up fine, and I was able to disable Single User boot in Cocktail.

Uh..now that this whole crisis has been fixed, I might as well make the topic useful and post some sites regarding this Single User boot for future reference.

http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS-X/com...ingle-user.html
http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/348
http://homepage.mac.com/giantmike/troublexjag.html

Could one of the mods lock this topic please?

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Old 18-02-2005, 12:32 PM
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Simplest way: get your powerbook's hardware diagnostic CD, boot to that, and repair permissions using the Disk Utility (found listed under one of the menus).

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