I have been using a 667 MHz G4 DA for the last 18 months running flawlessly and currently running on 1.5 MB SDRAM. The G4 has a master 36 GB HD with no partitions with 31 GB unused and a formerly working OS 10.4.11 installed. The G4 also has a second slave 40+GB HD installed with three partitions: a working OS 10.4.11 in one partition, a working OS 10.2.8 in a second partition and a non working OS 10.4.11 in the third partition which unfortunately is the current selected start-up system.
The current situation is that the start up disk is the third partition which on start-up with a blue screen almost at the end of the boot-up. The screen says that a debug module is missing and instructs a shut down and restart of the computer. I was originally using the master HD with no problems and then downloaded an update to Itunes without first clearing up a failure of Firefox. When I restarted, the G4 never got out of the spinning wheel. So I tried a restart while depressing the shift/option/command/delete keys and the G4 booted-up using OS 10.4.11 from the first partition of the slave HD. Then I copied the contents of the master HD to the third partition of the slave HD and that completed successfully. I then reinstalled OS 10.4 and 10.4.11 on the third partition and restarted with the third partition of the slave HD as the boot-up HD and got the message that a debug module is missing and instructs a shut down and restart of the computer.. Doing a restart with the the shift/option/command/delete keys depressed does assign the boot-up drive to the master HD but I then get the spinning wheel. The G4 DA is set to open on the OS in the third partition and I don't know of anyway to change the OS to startup either in the first or second partition because the G4 DA will not boot amnd allow me to change the start up partition. I have tried booting with a start up update OS disk by holding down the "C" key. I have tried booting by holding down the shift key. I have tried booting by holding down the command/option/shift and delete but all that does is change the start up HD from the third partition to the master HD. I don't have a good DVD with OS 10.4 and an 10.4.11 update as the one I used didn't work. Any suggestions? Does anyone have a working DVD with OS 10.4 and 10.4.11 update with the documentation that I can buy? Mel PS: I am typing this on another earlier model G4 which has OS 10.3.9 installed. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
