On Mar 20, 2:21 pm, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I've experience this same issue on "some" cloned DVD installer > images on HDs. You can boot once, and then it stops booting. I believe > this is because the HD isn't locked as a "read-only" device. I've > tried locking the HD via software using permissions to lock the entire > HD or partition to read-only, and that has NOT worked for me on > problematic HDs. I believe you can lock a HD to read-only via a > jumper, but I've never tried that. For some reason this doesn't happen > on all HDs, just some. It seems to be consistent, meaning ones that > only boot once will continue to only boot once, and ones that boot > more then once continue to stay bootable. It may be the OS version > also, I think most all of the unbootable HDs were Tiger 10.4 PPC? Any > better theories to explain this phenomenon? The only solution I found > was a fresh clone, blessing the HD didn't help.
I just ran into this with a USB flash drive, I cloned tiger retail DVD, and used Pacafist to strip out the hardware checks, then used it to install tiger (very, very slowly) on a tangerine clamshell (no firewire) I had picked up for $10. I then tried to use the same method on my backup Lombard (just for fun) and the drive was not recognized as bootable no matter what I did. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
