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.
Ok, I got the big drive online by booting from 10.0x install CD, not the 10.2 update, and X.0whatever is now installing on the empty partition. I could not install onto any other partition as they all has 10.2.8 on them and the 10.0.x installer would not overwrite.
I'm not sure how I can ever get my original 10.2.8 partition bootable again. I may be able to boot into 10.0 on the large partition, we shall see, and update that one to 10.2 then to 10.2.8, but if the software will never reinstall onto a slightly newer version then my other partition on the new drive will never be bootable again, (or until I buy 10.3, which is not an appealing thing- and that fix would only last until I updated 10.3, at which point one could end up in this same place again, not being able to fix a boot partition.
This should not be a big deal, what is the real way to approach it?
Thanks,
Brian
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