I'm glad you got it running. Are you saying that the external drive
(which wouldn't boot) is X.5? If that is true, do you know your iBook
will support X.5? This could be why you weren't able to boot from the
firewire drive.
Jeff Miles wrote:
Thanks Tom, that did it. I reinstalled OS X.2 and got the thing to
work. The 20 gig hard drive would take X.5 and I can't find X.4 or 3.
This place is such a mess.
Interesting how old X.2 feels. I haven't dealt with classic in a
long time. Not to mention OS 9, which I've been working with since I
moved the airport card into the clam shell iBook. Network settings in
OS 9 are now Greek to me. I wish I was from Greece.
Jeff M
On Mar 15, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
It means it can not boot from your FireWire drive. You wrote that this
drive worked previously to start up a Mac, but I do not recall you
saying
that this drive was used to boot the Mac you have it currently connected
to. Apple keeps making hardware changes and these often cause old boot
disks to no longer work.
Boot using the OS X DVD that came with the computer or a newer OS update
DVD. See if you can use that to update the OS on the external drive.
Tried that, as mentioned in a previous reply. I've used all the key
combo's mentioned on this page,
http://www.davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html
I just need to know what it means when it says waiting for local
disks. The ibooks internal drive is fused solid. I can't hear it, feel
it, and the install disk for OS X can't find it
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