anyone?? i'm dead in the water on what to do, seemingly tried everything at this point (even tried to boot from firewire, no go). i might even try pulling all drive connections and THEN see if i can boot from CD but somehow doubt that will work too. what happened i have no idea. thanks mucho in advance...
christopher On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:06:45 -0500, zoetic wrote: > hi - > so i ordered and successfully installed the SIIG card into my S900 > G4/450 with an attached WD 30GB HD. i rebooted and OS-X (jaguar > 10.2.8) saw the card and drive no problem. although strange that it > sees the card and drive as SCSI (anyone know why?) I reformatted the > drive with disk utility and then carbon-copy-cloned my OS-X over to > it. Once finished I selected it as startup in the control panel and > rebooted. > > this is where the problem began. although i chose it in the control > panel, it still booted off the old SCSI drive. tried a few times to > no avail. then i searched around online a bit and found something > about 'blessing' a system folder, which i tried through the terminal, > no luck. then i found somewhere that on our machines, you must > reformat through OS-9's disk utility program, which i remembered that > i did with the scsi in order to load OS-X on the machine (with the > help of xpostfacto). so i rebooted on a OS-9.1 CD i had and > reformatted the drive. then chose back the SCSI OS-X drive to boot > from (so that i could clone again) and rebooted. > > now it won't boot, it just hangs in the startup and the monitor isn't > even receiving a signal. i tried inserting the 9.1 CD and holding C > to boot from but doens't work. strange too was that i couldn;t even > turn it off, when i tried to power down it would just start back up. > so i reset the CUDA switch inside, which at least allowed me to power > down but no help in booting up. > > can anyone help with an idea of what happened? the only thing i can > think that i even touched on the original OS-X drive was running disk > repair while in 9. was that it? > > thanks much in advance. > christopher > > ps: the kicker is that i'm sending my pismo in to daystar in a few > hours (to upgrade to a g4! ;-) and was relying on my s900 to get me > through the weekend. > > -- > SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- >> The Think Different Store > http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
