On 7 Jul 2010, at 04:49, John Carmonne <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jul 6, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Chance Reecher wrote: > >> 1.) Reinstalling the OS will have no affect on the ability to boot from >> FireWire. That's the firmware. >> 2.)If you could read, he said he can't boot from an OS disc. >> >> But yes, reinstalling the OS would be the simple fix to the blue-screen hang. >> >> Mark Sokolovsky wrote: >>> That is so weird, I had the same story on my sawtooth where leopard crashed >>> on a 320GB SATA HDD. Re-install the OS. >>> > > > I got it fixed I don't understand this I had to reinstall the OS to get it > working The FW nor the internal optical would boot, I took all apart and > reset the CUDA, the full Monty, even switch out the RAM, every thing I could > think of. > So to get the installer to boot I put the image on a 8 GIG stick and booted > on USB and did the reinstall. Now every thing is working. The MDD seems to > rely on the drive in the forward bay, if it's screwed up the things go > haywire. > That's what I think, I've been at this for hours and this is what I did. I > think what ever is on the end of the cable on the fastest Bus is what will > decide what's gong to happen on an MDD. The darn things even need a special > ROM to boot 9. > > John Carmonne > Yorba Linda USA > Sent from my MBP > > Rather than doing a full reinstall, you might try applying the 10.5.8 combo update (available straight from the apple site). That fixed it for me on my FW800. It does mean having another leopard volume available to boot from though, but start the problem mac up in target disk mode et voilà -- 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
