Re: G4 MDD won't boot frm FW

2010-07-07 Thread Mike Linnett
On 7 Jul 2010, at 04:49, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com 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

Re: G4 MDD won't boot frm FW

2010-07-07 Thread John Carmonne
On Jul 6, 2010, at 11:08 PM, Mike Linnett wrote: On 7 Jul 2010, at 04:49, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com 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

Re: G4 MDD won't boot frm FW

2010-07-07 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I'm very glad I have a sawtooh, or rather 2 sawtooth computers, that way, I don't need a special installer to install OS 9 or a special ROM. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop

G4 MDD won't boot frm FW

2010-07-06 Thread John Carmonne
Hi All I have a PM G4 MDD Dual 1.25. It crashed on the 10.5.8 volume one one of it's Seagate drives. and I can't get it to boot the volume I ran disk Utility and Disk Warrior on it and it shows OK but gets to the blue screen and hangs. The 10.4.11 volume on the same Seagate drive boots. I

Re: G4 MDD won't boot frm FW

2010-07-06 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
That is so weird, I had the same story on my sawtooth where leopard crashed on a 320GB SATA HDD. Re-install the OS. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- 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

Re: G4 MDD won't boot frm FW

2010-07-06 Thread Chance Reecher
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

Re: G4 MDD won't boot frm FW

2010-07-06 Thread John Carmonne
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