{"id":5703,"date":"2011-06-24T09:04:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T07:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2011-06-24T09:10:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T07:10:14","slug":"a-mac-osx-journalling-error-can-inhibit-the-boot-disk-to-be-mounted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2011\/06\/a-mac-osx-journalling-error-can-inhibit-the-boot-disk-to-be-mounted\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mac OSX journalling error can inhibit the boot disk to be mounted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The screenshot below shows my desperate search why my Macbook wouldn&#8217;t boot again (following a cold reset writing a large Photoshop CS5 file for more than 15 minutes).<\/p>\n<p>The verbose boot mode (APPLE+S) showed some error with the journalling system, basically an error as described at the currently non functioning <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/1404087?start=0&amp;tstart=0http:\/\/www.edn.com\/blog\/400000040\/post\/1670013967.html\">Apple Support Board<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>jnl: replay_journal: bad block list header @ 0x4bra50 (checksum 0xega0fee1 != 0x927a5993)<br \/>\njnl: journal_open: Error replaying the journal!<br \/>\nhfs: early jnl init: failed to open\/create the journal (retval 0).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately  nothing helped. Booting from an external disk just showed a normal, error-free HD in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/ts1417\">disk utility<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to follow all these nice advices out there like reformat\/restore or buying Disk Warrior. After 2 hours I came up with hfs util rthat finally did the trick by stopping the journal even on a disk that could not be mounted using the -N switch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Bildschirmfoto-2011-06-22-um-16.52.551.png\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5705\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Bildschirmfoto-2011-06-22-um-16.52.551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the next reboot and some file permission corrections, journalling could be switched on again without any problems (although that may not even be necessary on a standalone machine), yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 07.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The screenshot below shows my desperate search why my Macbook wouldn&#8217;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: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2011\/06\/a-mac-osx-journalling-error-can-inhibit-the-boot-disk-to-be-mounted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Mac OSX journalling error can inhibit the boot disk to be mounted<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2720,2719,2721],"class_list":["post-5703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","tag-boot","tag-disk-failure","tag-kernel-panic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5712,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions\/5712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}