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Hi folks,
I have a 2009 Mac Mini (the first rev that had HDMI) and I'm having some issues with it. It won't boot to any device at all, I just get the Apple logo and the spinning grey wheel. If I bring up the boot manager, it does see the hard drive (both the primary and recovery partitions) and the DVD, but choosing any of them doesn't seem to do much - i still get the indefinite spinning wheel.
Here's what I've tried:
I'm at a bit of a loss. I don't care about the data (it's just an HTPC and I have a backup), but I can't get it to boot at all. I do get the startup chimes. I've tried booting into hardware test, but I believe that looks for utilities on either the hard drive or an external drive, neither of which are working for me.
I don't think it's the hardware controller, because if I bring up boot manager it DOES see the respective partitions on the hard drive and the flash drives. I ran an fsck in single user, and both disks I'm using came back clean.
ld be much appreciated. Thanks!
After letting it sit in verbose mode for about an hour, this is the last message that comes up: "considerRebuildOfPrelinkedKernel prebuild rebuild has expired"
I've done some Googling and a lot of the results just point to a fresh install, which I'd be more than happy to do if I could get the system to boot from any device at all. At this point I'm willing to give anything a shot. I can't run the AHT because it never gets anywhere when I try to boot from the DVD.
Any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks!
I have a 2009 Mac Mini (the first rev that had HDMI) and I'm having some issues with it. It won't boot to any device at all, I just get the Apple logo and the spinning grey wheel. If I bring up the boot manager, it does see the hard drive (both the primary and recovery partitions) and the DVD, but choosing any of them doesn't seem to do much - i still get the indefinite spinning wheel.
Here's what I've tried:
- Reseated everything, checked all the connections, reconnected them all about 12 times (heh).
- Swapped to a different hard drive (SSD vs regular SATA drive)
- Reset the NVRAM/SMC
- Tried booting to a USB drive, no luck there either (hangs)
- Created a Mavericks SD Card installer, also no luck (hangs)
- Tried booting to a DVD (hangs)
I'm at a bit of a loss. I don't care about the data (it's just an HTPC and I have a backup), but I can't get it to boot at all. I do get the startup chimes. I've tried booting into hardware test, but I believe that looks for utilities on either the hard drive or an external drive, neither of which are working for me.
I don't think it's the hardware controller, because if I bring up boot manager it DOES see the respective partitions on the hard drive and the flash drives. I ran an fsck in single user, and both disks I'm using came back clean.
ld be much appreciated. Thanks!
After letting it sit in verbose mode for about an hour, this is the last message that comes up: "considerRebuildOfPrelinkedKernel prebuild rebuild has expired"
I've done some Googling and a lot of the results just point to a fresh install, which I'd be more than happy to do if I could get the system to boot from any device at all. At this point I'm willing to give anything a shot. I can't run the AHT because it never gets anywhere when I try to boot from the DVD.
Any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks!