[mac4theblind] Re: Weirdest thing I've ever seen! This! is bizarre!
- From: Wendy <wendy.poth@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 06:38:37 -0500
The only thing that is more awful than this book you just wrote is what parts
of it I understood. I got the sh** and the, blankity blank, the hell was easy
along with the woopse, for using the H*** word but after all that I was lost.
I think at the end of the book all was well accept for your understanding
regarding how the book wrote itself? Have I got that? LOL.
That was really fun to read so thanks for taking the time to help your friend F
up and fix it. Are you all still friends?
Wendy
On Jul 27, 2012, at 1:58 AM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland"
<cgilland1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OK, so, if this isn't totally bizarre, I don't know what is!
>
> My best friend, who like me, is an Avid primary Mac user decided to install
> Mountain Lion yesterday. So, he went to the app store with my help, and we
> bought and downloaded ML with his Apple ID.
>
> All went perfectly, from what we could see at first. I should add before we
> go any further that he has identically the same model macbook that I have...
> the mid 2010 stocked white 13 inch. This system is not a macbook pro.
> Beware. It is just the standard mid 2010 white 13 inch.
>
> Anyhow, he went through the install window, and the system restarted as
> expected to finish the installation. We hear the startup chime, and think
> all is well. We give it a few minutes, then hit command+F5. Sure enough,
> Voiceover came up with the Fred voice talking perfectly. We were quite
> satisfied so far. The progress indicator looked perfect, and was moving
> along just fine. Once it reached 100%, the system restarted as expected. I
> told him get ready, here comes ML! You're gonna love this. Huhho! Boy? oh,
> boy? was I? wrong! I should a said: Get ready! Here comes disaster!
>
> We hear the chime, and wait? and wait, and wait some more? and continue
> waiting? and more waiting? and, oh, by the freaking way, did I by chance
> mention, waited? LOL! So now, great as I am, not just at the mac, but in
> general with trouble shooting technology, I'm going, well? sh**! Um? Like,
> uh, hmm! what the! Heck? So here I am, trying to figure out, what in the God
> blessid heck happened, as I swear! we didn't do anything! out of the ordinary
> from anyone else. So, I had him shut down, and simply restart by holding his
> power button down. I know, bad? move, but what else were we gonna do!? He
> was hung! We kind a had no other choice of the matter. It was either do
> that, or sit here and watch the perty apple whilst singing: I haven't gotta
> clue, I don't know what to say, what the bird is wrong with it, all the do
> dah day. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! So, it reboots, we hear the chime, and again, we
> wait for all eternity. Nothing happens. Just that stupid little apple on
> the grey background that shows it's loading. You know, kind a the Darwin
> boot loader, I guess you'd call it, ish. No error messages that I know a,
> just the blasted thing not booting. It's totally weird, as it said! it
> installed correctly.
>
> So, the next thing I had 'em do, was to go into the hidden recovery partition
> by hitting command+R once he heard the startup chime. That worked absolutely
> flawlessly. He did hit the ML, not the Lion, Recovery Partition with no
> issue at all. So I'm going: Sh'sh'shewwwww! At least? that worked! So,
> only cause I didn't feel like having him fetch an ethernet cord from the back
> of his desktop windows machine out in the living room, which would a waken
> his folks up, plus is way back in a cavinet which, yeah, good luck trying to
> get that tower pulled out to get back there with all the cords in the way...
> LOL! So, at my disgression, I had him go up to the airport icon in the menu
> bar instead, and connect to his wifi network. That worked again, perfectly.
> Once connected, I had him try to reinstall from the recovery partition. That
> worked again perfectly. Then the system restarted, but here's the weird
> thing. Then, it went again through this stupid progression thing again.
> It's almost like it repeated the installation. it didn't sho anything
> different it was doing. The extra components it had to download did go
> through successfully, so it's not like it got hung there. Trust me. We both
> watched the screen with Voiceover very closely.
>
> Once this all was done, the system restarted a second time. just as we
> thought he would be good to go, we hear the chime, lots of hard disk activity
> for about maybe 10 minutes, then no activity, and just regular fan noise,
> nothing unusual sounding. It's not like his processor was over heating, as
> there wasn't any fan noise out of the ordinary. I'd think the EFI would a
> kicked in causing the fan to rev up to cool down had there been an issue.
> OK, yeah, there is the possibility he has a bad EFI, but it's real unlikely.
> Especially being what I'm gonna tell you all we did here in just a second
> that proves that not to be the case.
>
> So, you can imagine, by this point, I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure
> out what the hel., parden the language, is going on!
>
> Finally it dawned on me, maybe, just? maybe, it's the PRam having issues.
> Again, it's really doubtful, I completely agree with you all, but at this
> point, we really had nothing to lose. If you're wonderring, well D*** it,
> Chris? why didn't you think to have him go to disk utility and run a
> disk/permission verification and repair the disk/permissions, if needed. The
> only reason I didn't have him yet do that, is because not even a week ago
> literally! not even 7 days ago literally speaking, I myself had his macbook
> literally in my hand, as he came down here for 3 weeks to visit with me, and
> I ran a disk repair/permission repair at that point, as his finder kept
> saying busy busy busy almost constantly, and so we thought maybe something
> with the drive was screwed. Sure enough, it was, and I repaired, and
> according to the log, it was fixed 100% of the way. So, I didn't really
> think yet to have him try that, as why! He only just did it and fixed things
> not even a week before. So, it just kind a seemed thus, pointless.
>
> I did however finally have him do this, and nothing at all came back with
> errors. The drive appears to be completely 100% fine.
>
> Finally, in disk utility, I had him go to the macintosh HD volume, not? the
> actual disk, but just? the partition/volume. Then on the erase tab, I had
> him erase the disk entirely. I don't mean erase free space, I mean just the
> full erase. Once done, I had him quite disk utility. Obviously, we were
> doing this from the ML recovery partition.
>
> I had him do it this way, and not literally set the partition scheme from
> current back to 1 partition, as for one thing, I knew if we did that, it
> wouldn't a worked, as files were in use from the hidden recovery partition,
> which we were currently booted into, so even had! we done it, it wouldn't a
> worked. Plus, hypothetically, had! it been technically possible, I knew it
> would a been a real stupid move, as that! would a not only! wiped his
> macintosh hd volume with the supposedly installed OS, it also would a licked
> his hidden recovery partition clean, so, yeah, that was out of the question.
>
> What my goal ultimately was, was to have 'em erase the macintosh hd, and
> reformat it, just in case something really was going totally wackid. Once he
> did this, I had him try, without first restarting to reinstall. At this
> point, he did get the option to not only reinstall, but to install a new
> copy, which we didn't see before. He clicked it, but then the install button
> was dimmed. I had him reclick the new copy just in case we'd some how
> toggled that option off. Still, no good.
>
> I wondered if it had somehow again decided to be a thing, so I had him
> restart. Worst? choice, I ever? could a haddem make! Once that happened, we
> hear the chime, he holds command+R down, and no? dice! It didn't even let
> 'em go into recovery any longer! I'm going, what the blue flying blankity
> blank! I didn't even touch! his hidden partition! I couldn't! it's so
> hidden, even had I wanted to! I couldn't. I didn't have him wipe the
> partition scheme, and again, even had I, it wouldn't a worked since that
> partition was mounted, as was in use running the recovery, to start with.
>
> So, I had him plug his external Seagate go flex USB 500gb drive in which has
> a Super Dooper backup on it of his Lion install which was quite recent. I
> had him boot, while holding down the option key, to see if we could boot to
> it. No good.
>
> Finally, right as he said he was going to take the b***ard into the Apple
> Store in his area, I told him to try in despiration one? last thing. I had
> him leave the drive plugged in, and reboot, this time, without! holding down
> the option key. Guess what folks!? Boom! Drive wirreled up, we waited
> about a minute or two, and boom! Voiceover came right the heck up talking
> with his Lion bootted Super Doop drive from the Go Flex drive. I had him
> doop it back over to the macintosh hd.
>
> That too, worked perfectly. I had him then shut down, then remove, only!
> then, the go flex drive from the USB port, then restart.
>
> Guess what? Again: Boom! it booted like gold! Flawlessly!
>
> So, what in the cotton blessed heavens gives here! I am beside myself! This
> is totally! killing me! I hardly ever stump at this kind a thing, but I'm
> totally cluelessly baffled! When we called Apple today, he spoke to a senior
> advisor, who was pretty well just, if not more, as stumped as I am!
>
> He set up a mac genious appointment at 10 tomorrow Arizona time to have them
> look at the thing and try to install it themselves, but I'd still! love to
> know if you all know what in the heck! caused this!
>
> This is totally perplexing the heck outta me!
>
> Chris.
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