Boot Stuck at Spinning Cursor

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Rebooted my desktop today and got stuck at a spinning cursor in the latest Chimera. I then attempted to use rBoot and got the same thing. Any suggestions?

Attached a picture from rBoot.

 

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So I've confirmed my boot drive is alive, as I booted a Linux boot CD and was able to see all my boot drive data.

I reset my BIOS and set all the ACHI/HPET settings back. That didn't help.

Curious how to recover without rBoot. Popped in my old iBoot DVD for giggles and it also gets stuck.

 

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I unplugged the time machine HDD of my 3 internal HDDs (1 - boot, 2 - data, 3 - time machine) and got to a rBoot menu. I don't see any HDD boot options listed, so I'm starting to question why? As mentioned I used a Linux Boot CD and can get to the boot HDD. Is it possible my kernel is screwed up on the boot HDD?

 

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Final update. I got the system functional again after going through hard drive by hard drive. My Time Machine drive was corrupt somehow. I booted into an Ubuntu USB stick, formatted it, and now I'm booted/backing up again. Amazing how a corrupt drive can wreck havoc on Chimera/Chameleon.