OK, I turned off my G4/AGP/10.2, turned it on again, it won't boot, keyboard light flashes once, screen hangs at the apple symbol, no twirly cursor thing.
I narrow it down to the hard drives; I have one 10 gig (the original one) as master, a 100gig, split into 2 partitions, one small one with 10.2, one bir one with the rest.
I can boot from the small drive into 9.2 if I pull the big drive off of the bus.
If I boot from the 10.2 upgrade CD, the installer will mount and see all the partitions on the big drive, and notice that one has a newer version of X installed, and one has no version of X installed.
I can't boot from just the big drive, set to master or set with no jumpers, with the small drive in or out. It's been booting from the OS X partition on the large drive for months, until now.
No matter what I do I can't get the thing to boot with the larger drive present; a configuration in which the thing has been running happily for about 6 months.
Should I just go out and buy a ATA controller and give up on Apple's halfway attempt to put IDE in their computers? If so, which one?
Any suggestions on how to get the thing running again are welcome. I've tried all the ways to put these drives together. I can't figure out how to select a startup drive or run any utils once the install CD is booted; it only wants to install, not run any utils or startup volume select. And I can't just select the big drive as the startup drive when booted into 9.2 on the original drive, as I can't boot at all with the big drive present.
Grrrr....
Brian
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