Last night I booted my friends 800 MHz eMac in target disk mode, connected it to my MacBook, and used Carbon Copy Cloner to backup her hard drive to an external drive. This went OK albeit EXTREMELY slowly. (Time elapsed: 01:52:45. Data copied: 8.43 GB i.e. ~1.25 MB/s (~1.19 MiB/s) ???)
When I then attached the external drive to the eMac and attempted to boot from the clone of her eMac hard drive, the boot seemed to proceed well enough. But ultimately it hung with the message "Login Window Starting" displayed underneath a "not quite there yet" progress bar. I'd like to look at the system log, but I don't know how to navigate to it and display it. All the tips on viewing the OS X log files that Google turns up for me seems to assume that the log files are on the partition you booted OS X from. In this the log files I need to open are on a partition on an external drive, not on my MacBook. I believe the files are in /private/var/log but Finder does not display those folders. Any suggestions? -irrational john -- 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
