Persistent problems with Lion boot

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Persistent problems with Lion boot

Hi all.

I have buyed and installed Lion from Snow Leopard on a 1 year old MacBook Pro 15".

Now I can boot correctly 1 time, and when I power off or restart the PC it hangs on the Apple logo with the loading simbol.

If i boot verbose, it locks here:

If i boot in single user and i do a fsck and reboot it start, but it say me that it delete some orphaned files or directory.

I have also reinstalled Lion with the CMD+R console reinitializing the partition, but after a reboot the problem is the same.

The HDD is a WD Caviar Black 750 Gb, and it hasn't problems.

Booting with windows 7 there isn't problems...

Some ideas?

Thank you!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 26, 2011 9:36 AM

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Jul 26, 2011 9:46 AM in response to gallysoft

Have you already performed a safe boot? What does the last lines of your verbose screen telling us, I can't read it.

bye Tom

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Jul 26, 2011 9:53 AM in response to prontosystems

Hi Tom.

I'm doing safe boot but the problem persist.

Last lines are:

Running fsck on the boot volume...

** /dev/rdisk0s2 (NO WRITE)

** Root file system

Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-510.1-34).

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Jul 26, 2011 10:06 AM in response to gallysoft

How long do you wait until you kill this screen and what do you do to stop this? Anyway, this screen looks like that the system is running a file system check and maybe this is not finished. You should wait a while when you see this message. A file system check on a 750GB hard disk takes a while, this can go up to more than a hour. I never interrupted a file system check, because this could end in a corrupt file system, so I don't know how the system react but I can imagine that on next boot time the system repeat the check until it's finished. Be patient, maybe this is everything you have to do. I will hope so... ;-)

Bye Tom

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Jul 26, 2011 10:10 AM in response to prontosystems

Ok, tomorrow I will try to wait until it finishes!

Thank you.

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Jul 26, 2011 3:43 PM in response to gallysoft

This is identical to what I get every time I boot (confirmed when I do a comand -v and it's also in the log). The process takes 15 minutes or so (I can see why Gallysoft gets impatient! It's clobbering my start time every morning at work when I come in and fire up my MBP.) I have to wonder how many new users have this problem lurking behind their slow-boot time complaints?

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AMMOCAN

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Jul 26, 2011 3:43 PM in response to gallysoft

Did you happen to install lion with a BootCamp partition?

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Jul 26, 2011 11:04 PM in response to AMMOCAN

Hi all.

Yesterday I waited for at least 1 hour but it remains in this state, but I noticed that it say me "

Running fsck on the boot volume...

** /dev/rdisk0s2 (NO WRITE)

** Root file system

Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-510.1-34)." every time it boot, but sometimes it proceed, and sometimes it not.

The HDD is partitioned with a bootcamp partition with Windows 7.

Today I will reinizialize the entire HDD...

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Jul 26, 2011 11:27 PM in response to gallysoft

Yes, I would try wiping your drive and only creating one partition, then install and update to v10.6.8. Then upgrade to Lion. After upgrading to Lion I would then partition your drive for what you need for bootcamp. Also, be aware that having TimeMachine on will enable MobileBackup, which will fill up space on your internal hard drive, which can be seen under the storage report in About This Mac under backups. So, I would for all intended purposes not turn TimeMachine on until you are finished with your install and partition.

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Jul 26, 2011 11:31 PM in response to AMMOCAN

Ok, thank you.

I will do that.

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AMMOCAN

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Jul 26, 2011 11:39 PM in response to gallysoft

No problem at all. Please let us know how it works out.

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Jul 27, 2011 2:20 AM in response to AMMOCAN

(Same problem, not as long as an hour though, but I have no bootcamp partition, just a Parallels session of Windows and the new hidden recovery partition. At this point I'm ready to expore hacking the startup scripts to disable the fsck -fy command. :-/ )

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Jul 27, 2011 6:10 AM in response to AMMOCAN

Ok, I have wiped my HDD, created only 1 partition, installed directly Lion, rebooted 4-5 times without problems. Disk utility say there's no errors on disk.

With boot camp I have partitioned a 120 gb volume and installed windows 7 with boot camp drivers etc.

rebooted other 4-5 times.

Rebooted in Lion I have verified the partition: no errors.

Rebuilded permissions on disk and rebooted.

Now in verbose boot it say me that it has deleted 0 orphaned files but some directories... it seems me not a good thing.

Now I will migrate my profile from Time Machine backup...

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Jul 27, 2011 8:56 AM in response to gallysoft

I have migrated my previous profile with Time Machine: ok.

I have verified the volume with Disk Utility: ok.

After some reboot without problems, I have installed Java because a Adobe component require it.

After the reboot the problem has reappeared: sometimes it boot regular, sometimes it locks after "

Running fsck on the boot volume...".

Often it say me that it has delete some orphan directories.

I have tried to disable journal and reenable it but without success.

I'm in despair: I do not know what to try...

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AMMOCAN

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Jul 27, 2011 10:53 AM in response to gallysoft

@ Bill, Try this:

In Parallels, select display VM's, then right click on BootCamp VM, and select properties, then display the drive, and select the correct physical drive where the BootCamp resides.

@ gallysoft: Did you reinstall and update SL before upgrading to Lion? Did you use the new BootCamp Assistant v4.0 that comes with Lion?

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Jul 27, 2011 11:48 AM in response to AMMOCAN

AMMOCAN wrote:

@ Bill, Try this:

In Parallels, select display VM's, then right click on BootCamp VM, and select properties, then display the drive, and select the correct physical drive where the BootCamp resides.

I'm embarassed to say this but I can't find that option in Parallels (and I don't have a bootcamp partition). I also ran a manual fsck -fy in single-user mode (control-s on boot) out of frustration and desparation (I didn't run it from the recovery sector or from a dvd boot). For reasons that excape me when I boot it is no longer running the fsck -fy on an ordinary or verbose boot, right now while things are not perfect, I'll accept it for now. Gallysoft may want to try that but it seems now that his/her problems are of a different animal :-/

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