How new is your Mac? This might work.
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Tom Scola - Aug 29, 2012 11:12:15 am PDT #20797 of 25501
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tommyrot - Aug 29, 2012 11:17:31 am PDT #20798 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
try this. single user mode.
Wow, that's cool.
Sadly, I'm not getting a command prompt. (Looks like it's dying right after it detects the boot device.)
eta: OK, now I got a bunch of disk errors too.
tommyrot - Aug 29, 2012 11:21:29 am PDT #20799 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How new is your Mac? This might work.
Summer '09.
Sounds like internet booting is not an option, as the MacBook Pro predates Lion.
tommyrot - Aug 30, 2012 2:44:21 pm PDT #20800 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Weird. I can't get my MacBook Pro to boot from a Snow Leopard intall DVD nor from a USB drive.
I tried booting from the DVD while holding down the 'c' key and tried booting from a USB drive by holding down the 'd' key.
eta: Tried booting into single user mode so I could use the command line to mount the DVD. But I don't get a command prompt, even after the attempt to mount the HD times out.
tommyrot - Aug 30, 2012 2:48:18 pm PDT #20801 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If Apple's webpage won't let me make an appointment for the Genius Bar tonight, would it pay to go to the store anyway? I wouldn't get there until 8:00 and they close at 9:00.
le nubian - Aug 30, 2012 2:52:30 pm PDT #20802 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Tommy,
Only do it if you are prepared for them to send your computer away for a week.
tommyrot - Aug 30, 2012 2:55:11 pm PDT #20803 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ugh. There's a Mac repair place in Evanston I might take it to instead.
Now I have my doubts that it's the HD, even though the HD sometimes make weird noises when I try to start it. A bad HD shouldn't stop it from booting off a DVD or USB drive, right? I fear it may be some disk controller issue that would be beyond my ability to fix.
Thoughts?
le nubian - Aug 30, 2012 2:58:08 pm PDT #20804 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
My 2008 MacBook pro had the motherboard go out last year. Took them about 90 minutes to diagnose tho.
tommyrot - Aug 30, 2012 3:02:00 pm PDT #20805 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
My 2008 MacBook pro had the motherboard go out last year.
Did you have it fixed? If so, how much did it cost?
Darn. I was thinking of replacing my MacBook Pro with one of the new 13" MacBook Pros with retina display and SSD (that comes out later this year, right?) So I don't wanna stick a lot of money into it, as it's 3 years old.
NoiseDesign - Aug 30, 2012 4:55:05 pm PDT #20806 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Sorry things have taken a long time at Apple stores for you. They have turned repairs around for me in 24 hours many times. Rarely more than 48. The last time I walked in with a bad computer I walked out with a brand new one 60 minutes later.