Problem with early 2011 MacBook Pro. Circle with line

Nriz,

at this point I think that you’re going to need to boot from an external disk to be able to run these diskutil commands against your internal disk to recover your Dogecoin wallet. Do you have a bootable external disk?

Nriz,

what to do next depends upon whether your Early 2011 MacBook Pro originally came with Snow Leopard installed, or if it originally came with Lion installed.

If it originally came with Snow Leopard installed, you’ll need to get the grey installation DVDs that originally came in the box with your MacBook Pro. Boot from the grey Mac OS X Install DVD. When you’ve booted from the DVD, run Disk Utility from it, and completely erase your internal disk. After that, reformat it with a single partition, and then exit Disk Utility. You can then reïnstall Snow Leopard from the DVD to the internal disk, and reboot. Once you’ve rebooted from the internal disk, optionally install the iLife applications from the grey Applications Install DVD. After that, run Software Update to get to Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Skip the next paragraph and go to the one after that.

If your MacBook Pro originally came with Lion installed, do a ⌘R reboot to enter Recovery mode; run Disk Utility there, completely erase your internal disk, and shut down. When you power up again, OS X Internet Recovery will redownload and reïnstall Lion from Apple’s servers. When you can reboot from your internal disk into Lion, run Software Update to get it up to date within Lion.

You can now redownload and reïnstall Mavericks from the App Store. When you boot into Mavericks, run Software Update to get Mavericks up to date. You can then restore from your Time Machine backup.

Nriz,

if your MacBook Pro originally came with Lion installed, then no grey installation DVDs would have been provided with it. Did you boot into Recovery mode when you ran Disk Utility to erase your internal disk? It won’t let you erase the internal disk if you ran Disk Utility when booted in its default mode.

Dear Melophage,

Your knowledge here is highly appreciated also from my side!

Then also myself run into the same problem and found this thread. I booted from an external HD. The problem shows up on a Mac Mini with fusion drive on 10.8.5. My problem looks pretty similar to the one from Nriz:

diskutil list
dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/sbin/diskutil) has __RESTRICT/__restrict section
/dev/disk0
  #:                      TYPE NAME                    SIZE      IDENTIFIER
  0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB    disk0
  1:                        EFI                        209.7 MB  disk0s1
  2: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF              598.5 GB  disk0s2
  3:                  Apple_HFS Recovery HD            650.0 MB  disk0s3
  4:      Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                78.6 GB    disk0s4
  5:                Linux Swap                        4.3 GB    disk0s5
  6:                        EFI                        1.1 GB    disk0s6
  7:      Microsoft Basic Data                        79.2 GB    disk0s7
/dev/disk1
  #:                      TYPE NAME                    SIZE      IDENTIFIER
  0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB  disk1
  1:                        EFI                        209.7 MB  disk1s1
  2:          Apple_CoreStorage                        121.0 GB  disk1s2
  3:                Apple_Boot Boot OS X              134.2 MB  disk1s3
/dev/disk2
  #:                      TYPE NAME                    SIZE      IDENTIFIER
  0:    Apple_partition_scheme                        *7.8 GB    disk2
  1:        Apple_partition_map                        30.7 KB    disk2s1
  2:        Apple_Driver_ATAPI                        1.0 GB    disk2s2
  3:                  Apple_HFS Mac OS X Install DVD    6.7 GB    disk2s3
/dev/disk3
  #:                      TYPE NAME                    SIZE      IDENTIFIER
  0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB  disk3
  1:                        EFI                        209.7 MB  disk3s1
  2:                  Apple_HFS mac os x                79.0 GB    disk3s2
  3:                  Apple_HFS Mac OS X Install ESD    16.7 GB    disk3s3
  4:                  Apple_HFS Dacuda Setup            101.7 GB  disk3s4
  5:                Apple_Boot Recovery HD            650.0 MB  disk3s5
  6:                  Apple_HFS Backup Partition        301.5 GB  disk3s6

diskutil cs list
dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/sbin/diskutil) has __RESTRICT/__restrict section
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 19092C7B-CADF-4CCE-9E58-D615B58C9C62
    =========================================================
    Name:        Macintosh HD
    Status:      Offline
    Size:        120988852224 B (121.0 GB)
    Free Space:  -none-
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 39C5A6EC-91A3-46B0-AA14-E9920B9F73AB
    |  ----------------------------------------------------
    |  Index:    0
    |  Disk:    disk1s2
    |  Status:  Checking
    |  Size:    120988852224 B (121.0 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume E129CF6F-B880-473D-ADB5-75F8583C6FF4
        ----------------------------------------------------
        (No properties)

mount
/dev/disk3s4 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
/dev/disk0s3 on /Volumes/Recovery HD (hfs, local, journaled)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
/dev/disk0s4 on /Volumes/BOOTCAMP (ntfs, local, read-only, noowners)
/dev/disk3s6 on /Volumes/Backup Partition (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, read-only, noowners)
/dev/disk2s3 on /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, read-only, noowners)
/dev/disk3s2 on /Volumes/mac os x (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, noowners)
/dev/disk3s3 on /Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners

After all unmounting I got:

sudo gpt show disk0
dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/sudo) is setuid or setgid
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640  1168981768      2  GPT part - FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
  1169391408     1269536      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1170660944         432
  1170661376   153440256      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  1324101632     8388608      5  GPT part - 0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
  1332490240     2097152      6  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
  1334587392   154734592      7  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  1489321984   464203151
  1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
  1953525167           1         Sec GPT header

So i did:

sudo gpt remove -b 409640 -s 1168981768 -t FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF disk0
dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/sudo) is setuid or setgid
gpt remove: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
disk0s2 removed

and finally I tried to add it again:

sudo gpt add -b 409640 -s 1168981768 -t 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC disk0
dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/sudo) is setuid or setgid
gpt add: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt add: disk0: error: no space available on device

Disk0:

sudo gpt show disk0
dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/sudo) is setuid or setgid
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640  1168981768      2  MBR part 218
  1169391408     1269536      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1170660944         432
  1170661376   153440256      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  1324101632     8388608      5  GPT part - 0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
  1332490240     2097152      6  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
  1334587392   154734592      7  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  1489321984   464203151
  1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
  1953525167           1         Sec GPT header

But now it complains that there is not enough space .. ?

Do you have any idea why there is suddenly not enough space anymore? Do you have a suggestion what I can try next? This would be great! Thank you already in advance!

simowil,

I haven’t worked with fusion drives at all, so I’m hesitant to offer any advice regarding one for fear of making the data on your drive unrecoverable. From your gpt show command, it looks as though there’s unallocated space on the fusion drive; thus, I don’t know why it would say that there’s no space available on the device. I’d recommend that you start a new discussion with your problem, noting in the title that you’re working with a fusion drive; perhaps someone who has experience with them will be able to offer practical advice for it.

Thank you Melophage,

I opened a new discussion here: Cannot boot anymore, stop sign. [Macmini6,2 + Fusion Drive]

Hi Again,

I'm still stuck at the very same point. I wonder if there is a way to simply clone every single bit between position 409640 and 1168981768 on /dev/disk0 to an external drive? This it the place where my data is supposed to lay around.

simowil,

you might be able to use TestDisk to do so, but be extremely careful with what you do with it — it has a command-line interface, and a typographical error in a command to it could wipe out the contents of your disk.

Melophage, thanks for the link.

I just downloaded the tool and reading the documentation.

btw: one other thing. Although I started from an external HD, the internal HD of my Mac Mini mounts itself all the time back on a regular basis. So I have to do a 'sudo diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk0' always before I can run e.g. 'gpt show /dev/disk0' . Do you know is this normal?

simowil,

I’ve never used a Mac Mini, so I don’t know whether that’s normal or not.

TestDisk also reported that my Harddisk seems too small: