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If Etcher dies silently

Balena Etcher dies silently on Mac OS 13.2 Ventura when creating a rescue system (rescatux 0.74) for the repair cafe. It seems to be a problem with missing rights, so only

sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher

works.

A Mac OSX journalling error can inhibit the boot disk to be mounted

The screenshot below shows my desperate search why my Macbook wouldn’t boot again (following a cold reset writing a large Photoshop CS5 file for more than 15 minutes).

The verbose boot mode (APPLE+S) showed some error with the journalling system, basically an error as described at the currently non functioning Apple Support Board

jnl: replay_journal: bad block list header @ 0x4bra50 (checksum 0xega0fee1 != 0x927a5993)
jnl: journal_open: Error replaying the journal!
hfs: early jnl init: failed to open/create the journal (retval 0).

Unfortunately nothing helped. Booting from an external disk just showed a normal, error-free HD inĀ disk utility. Continue reading A Mac OSX journalling error can inhibit the boot disk to be mounted