At 7:25 PM -0700 8/29/05, Stefan Maier wrote:
I have 2 J700's that both used to run the Pather operating systems. One of the 2 ran very smoothly until a recent thunderstorm hit. However none of the components look damaged and I have swapped things in just about every possible way and yet I can not get either one to boot up in OSX anymore.
Does it boot into OS9? If so, then it's not thunderstorm damage to a major component. Possibly the power went up and down a bit and the machine was shut down by it, causing some corruption in whatever was running at the time.
Can you boot from a CD? If so, run the OSX Disk Utility.
When using 'verbose' boot text the machine ends up not finding the root device. A message gets displayed saying: 'Still waiting for root device'. I have been trying to install OSX onto a 18Gig SCSI disk. I managed to install it onto a 50gig SCSI disk but cannot boot up from it reliably.
Don't forget the 8gig rule on these machines - you need to boot from the first partition on the drive, and that partition MUST be 8 gigs or smaller.
Most of the time the machine hangs in the same spot. I have taken out the battery and reset everything many times. I am only using SCSI Bus 1 because things get considerably worse when I connect anything to SCSI Bus 0. I am at the end of my witts. If anyone has any ideas. Perhaps a SCSI Bus termination problem which always has been a mystery to me. Any advice is much appreciated Stefan
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