OS X Does Not Boot

[peterocc]

I'll preface this with this disclaimer...I am not a MAC professional... That being said...

I have an Xserve running 10.2 (Jaguar). I shut the server down during the holidays (no one in office) with no problems. This morning, I tried to boot the server found a folder with a flashing ? then Mac symbol. Here is what I have tried so far and No...I do not have a repair CD
- I tried single user mode, then fsck -y. It returned no errors. Rebooted... no go.
- Holding down Option while booting. It finds the HD to boot from, I select it and all I get is a grey screen with the Apple logo.
- Booting into the Install CD, selecting Disk Utility. verified and found an error in Channel TreeB and an Invalid Node Structure. Ran repair. Repair successful (accoording to screen). Reboot...Grey screen with Apple logo.

Does anyone have any suggestions??? Re-Install may not be an option...but who knows

Thanks...
Peter

 

[nrb501]

Have you tried re-running Disk Utillity, as sometimes it only repairs the first problem it encounters. Its usually best to re-run it until it shows no errors.

 

[peterocc]

I've tried re-running disk utility in the hopes that the first try uncovered more errors. Disk Utility shows errors (Invalid node structure, invalid sibling link, invalid b-tree header and invalid map node as well as thread errors)and requests that a repair be run. When I try to run the repair, the repair freezes while trying to repair the volume.

I tried going into single-user mode and running /sbin/fsck -fy. Now it says that the volume cannot be repaired.

It looks like I'm going to have to re-install and restore...not what I wanted to do as it will be my first time. Do you or anyone else have any tips on installing 10.2 on an X-Serve?

Thanks again.
Peter