I got my copy of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), and attempted to install last night. Unfortunately, it does a thorough disk check, and it found an error on my disk that could not be repaired. It didn't say what it was, though. Damn you, Apple, give me an error message I can do something with! But wait, what's this? The install includes a copy of Disk Utility you can run separately, as well as Terminal? Yay, Apple, all is forgiven. I ran Disk Utility, and it didn't give me much more information, just another notice saying I had an unrepairable error on my hard drive, and an error number (-9972). I then opened the terminal and ran fsck (which is the same thing Disk Utility does, but I ran it with additional debug flags to get more info). It informed me of an error "invalid alternate VHB at 0". This sounds bad.
Many people have had the same -9972 error. Almost no one has seen "invalid alternate VHB at 0", though. Usually the -9972 means you either have to run Disk Warrior to repair your disk (which costs money), or you should back up everything, reformat and reinstall. In some cases, your hard disk is just screwed, perhaps just starting to go bad. I think I'll do the cheaper option, and back up everything to DVDs, and restore it later on. I could use to make backups anyway.
I think it's going to be a long weekend.
Posted by ahyatt at May 6, 2005 03:33 AMI had a similar problem. The installation died while "Verifying destination volume." Disk Utility failed with 23 "overlapped extent allocation file" errors and an "Invalid volume free block count." fsck -fy fixed the invalid volume free block count, but it can't do anything about the overlapped extent allocation files.
So, I used Carbon Copy Cloner to make a bootable backup of my hard drive on my LaCie d2 and zeroed out my hard drive. That took care of the overlapped extent allocation files. As I type this, I'm in the process of cloning everything back to my hard drive.
Posted by: Brian Marston on May 6, 2005 09:06 AMI had a number of issues installing Tiger, most were by design though such as the integration of all syncing to iPods into iTunes rather than iSync. One bonus was that Tiger now iSyncs w/ my Motorola phone which the previous version did not, but at the same time I can no longer use Bluetooth to browse the phones file system!
Have you noticed that Tiger is slow? I have seen more of the "spinning wheel" and have heard from others they are experiencing slow downs as well.
I guess my last comment is that I am not really using Spotlight as much as I thought I would be. Perhaps I am more organized than the usual user. More likely is that the work I do on my powerbook is more centralized than the work I do on the job where I find myself searching the file system frequently using Google Desktop.
Posted by: Brody on June 11, 2005 10:39 AMI have not noticed that Tiger is slow, except for the Dashboard which takes quite a few seconds to update itself when I go to that panel.
As far as using Spotlight, I do use it occasionally. However I still use quicksilver for most of my search-like functionality. That may change.
Posted by: Andrew Hyatt on June 13, 2005 06:39 AMHow did you open the terminal and ran fsck from the installe CD?
I canīt find it!
There is a pull-down menu item when you are in installing that lets you have access to a number of different applications. The Terminal is one of them. Just look through all the menus until you find it.
Posted by: Andrew Hyatt on July 18, 2005 06:46 AM