Macbook Pro won't boot OSX

Figgy

Tonight I tried doing the software updater, which found a few updates. I started installing them, but it stopped before the last one because it was running out of space on the HD (The system partition on this thing is tiny.. don't ask me, the school sets them up.)

So I empty the trash.. and wait. After about 10 minutes i'm convinced it's not working. Software updater wants me to reboot to finish installing the things it DID install, so I say go for it.

Now, when I turn on the computer it gets to the grey/apple screen with the circle animation and sits there forever.. the animation plays but I've left it for up to 15 minutes with nothing.

I've tried resetting the PRAM and doing the removebattery/holdpowerbutton thing. No dice.

I've also tried holding Shift to boot to safe mode, but it just boots like it normally does and goes nowhere from the loading screen. With Command+S, this is what it tells me:

(well there is a lot of crap here but this is the part that looks like an error)

Extension "com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard" has no kernel dependency.
Dec 13 01:13:04 launchd: bug: launchd.c:1990:17: ioctl(s6, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, &ifra6) != -1
Extension "com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEventDriver" has no kernel dependency.
Singleuser boot -- fsck not done
Root device is mounted read-only

If you want to make modifacations.... bla bla bla...

localhost:/ root# CSRHIDTransitionDriver::probe: -s
CSRHIDTransitionDriver::probe booting in single user .. do not match



Now, I have an exam tomorrow at 3pm and my study notes i made today are all on this god damn machine. I know if I take it in to the tech at school in the morning he's just gonna either wipe the drive or keep the damn thing forever.

If anyone here could give me some pointers on what the problem might be, and perhaps how to fix it, I would be greatly appreciative.

Thanks guys.

VisionOfClarity

Call the Apple support line and make an appointment at your nearest genius bar. They might be pretentious bastards but they can be pretty helpful.

Lewisham

Looks like your OS X install is buggered.

You do have your OS X CDs around right? Installing from the CDs will take about an hour, and then you'll be all set. Just don't select to erase the hard drive, or you'll lose all your documents.

If you are silly and don't have your OS X CDs around, find a firewire cable and go round to a friend who has a Mac. Boot it into Target Disk Mode (hold down T while booting) and you can pull off your documents that way.

gredavin

*removed advice, already provided above*

Figgy

Thanks for the help guys. I got it solved. For those that may look here later with a similar problem:

I was told by Apple support to reinstall the update via the downloadable Combo update. I could put the .dmg on a USB, boot with that in AND the apple CD and install through the Terminal.

Well, that didn't work. It froze while shutting down aftert he update and did the same thing when booting after thereafter. I took it in to school, where they did diagnostic utils and found no hardware issues...

The quickest solution was to just re-image the OSX partition.. since it was on its own little area with no other essential stuff.

So really.. no actual resolution cept to start fresh. I didn't lose any files though.

This can be locked.

Sam

lucky you didn't lose your data, time for us to all take a minute to remember that annoying loser high school computer teacher who stresses that ya always gotta back up back up (tell me watcha gonna do now)