[G4] OpenFirmware can't open bootdevice anymore

[Till Wimmer]

Hi Harry,

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It can't be the Startup Disk control panel - i used this hundred times 
befor without any problems. But maybe it was the ATTO tool for my SCSI 
disks :(
My OsX sytem partition seems to be intact, i checked this with Disk 
Utility... But some of the other (bootstrap... wahtever) partitions is 
probably crap. There MUST be a tool soewhere to correct this without the 
need of reinstalling everything :(

bg
Till


I think it was the ATTO tool ...

Harry Freeman wrote:

> Greetings ( + )!( + )
>
> Till I think that you have learned a hard lesson, just like I did soon 
> after installing 10.3 on my G4 Sawthooth.
>
> Never, Never, never use any of the OS 9 disk tools on the disk that 
> contains OSX.
> I used Norton's disk utilities to clean up the disk fragmentation, 
> well that was "IT" I had to reload OS X and reinstall all of the 
> application that I had before I could use OS X again.
>
> I know that you don't want to hear this but your only option (I think, 
> unless someone else knows) is to reload OS X and never again use any 
> of the OS 9 Disk Utilities.
>
> On Jul 3, 2006, at 6:33 AM, Till Wimmer wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Yesterday I booted into Os9 and did some work there (Protools) - 
>> everything worked fine. Then I changed the startup disk back to Os 
>> 10.3.9 using the control panel.
>> But after rebooting only the "no system found" icon came up. Next i 
>> rebooted holding down the option key, but there was no system folder 
>> displayed for selection.
>>
>> Of course i resetted PRAM, pressed the PMU button... still the "no 
>> system found" icon!
>>
>> Then i put my PPC linux disk in it and.. IT WORKED!  Putting back my 
>> OsX / Os 9 disk - no booting.
>>
>> OpenFirmware says:
>> 0 > boot hd:,\\:tbxi  can't OPEN: hd:,\\:tbxi
>> ok
>> 0 >
>> It tried this with ide0, ide1, hd, ultra0, ultra1...
>>
>> My next step was to put the OsX/Os9 system disk in an other mac and 
>> run Disk Utility on it. It reported no problem.
>>
>> Now i'm at my wit's end.
>>
>> Is there a tool to check every partition on a disk i.e. all the 
>> relevant things for booting? Maybe i deleted some driver on the the 
>> disk?
>>
>> It's a G4 Digital Audio with OsX 10.3.9 and Os 9.2.2
>>
>> Any help would be much appreciated!
>>
>> Till
>> -- 
>
>
>
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>
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