Re: [SLUG] OT: booting Mac]

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jul 23 2005 - 14:23:20 EDT


On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Andrew Barber wrote:

> Branko wrote:

> > My sister has a Mac, G4 Silver Bullet) and upon last restart, she
> > received (haha, "Aqua Screen of Death?") error about "invalid B-tree
> > node size". Now I'm not familiar with Mac's, but I know some of
> > Sluger's are. Is this something like messed up MBR? What is the best
> > (easiest) way to fix it without loss of data (very important! and she
> > does not have backed up in over a month!!).

> Try booting off an OSX CD. At the very first screen with a menu bar,
> there should be a Tools or Utilities or Disk setup item in one of the
> menus. Basically it needs an fsck.

Mac-speak for "fsck" is "Disk First Aid".

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