What do you mean I have to reinstall?
Posted in Rants,technology — by Don on 04/14/07

So, yea.

Not sure what I did, but I caused the macbook to go pear shaped. Something about a kernel panic and fsck not being able to run. All bad as far as I can tell. Oh yea, running real slow too.

Thanks to Josh for the assist in trouble shooting and google-ing the errors.

So it is known, in the 12 years I’ve had PC’s, I have never had to do this within the first 2 weeks of either owning or installing a new drive. Even Win95 went longer before needing a reinstall. I’m just sayin’.

So, the Sunday Post might be a little late. Depends on how long the re-install takes.

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(5) comments
  • http://www.red-omega.com/blog John W

    Wow that’s rather impressive :) From installing a new bigger HDD?

    ouch. My MBP went pear shaped right after my conference, thankfully after, and not before or during.

    They’re better than PC’s but not perfect :)

  • http://www.cjupin.com cj

    hey, that stinks- i’ve never had anything like that happen to me before. All well now?

  • db

    Hadn’t got to the HDD install yet.

    I ran more hardware tests on Saturday. tomorrow it goes into the shop. Gave error codes that, from searching, said a new logic board is probably in order.

    So I’m stuck using the pc for the week and change. Oh well.

  • http://guapacha.com paul

    wow, thats bad luck. Maybe I should cancel my order!

    I do think most Mac problems can be fixed using some good old fashioned command line work but Apple doesn’t want people messing about with that and spoiling the u/i experience.

  • http://www.jwiltshire.org Joshua

    Yeah Paul’s right. A little UNIX-y goodness can fix most things, but not a faulty logic board, unfortunately. Someday though… You’ll be able to bit torrent new hardware…

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