On Jul 6, 2010, at 11:08 PM, Mike Linnett wrote: > > > 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 > No FW ports working to use TDM. So I installed via USB 8 GB stick.
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