[G4] upgrade problem

[Harry Freeman]

Greetings ( + )!( + )

Margaret I had the same problem for different reasons and the only way 
that I found to get out of it was to swap the disk locations.

If you have a G4 Sawtooth I'll guess that you just upgraded to 10.4.6 
on your secondary disk, that's the one that is located on top.

Don't ask why but the systems wants to boot to that disk. You don't 
actually have to move the disk, just disconnect the ribbon cable from 
both disks and place the second connector on the top disk. The second 
connector is for the primary disk. Then boot-up and it should come 
on-line.

Hopefully you can then shut down and reconnect the disks back like 
normal and everything will work. If not then just swap the disk 
locations.

Worked for me.
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On May 15, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Margaret Krakowiak wrote:

> I upgraded my system yesterday.
> Had been using 10.2.8, and jumped to 10.4.6.
> The install went fine, I did an archive of my old system.
>
> The problem happened when I did a restart a bit later -
> I got the apple screen, the spinning icon below, but then
> the apple turned into a circle with a line across it, (the universal
> "no" symbol), and I could not boot up any further.
> I restarted from the install disk, verified and repaired permissions
> on the volume that I had done the new system install on,
> and verified the disk, which disk utility said was fine.
>
> Right now I'm booted into a different hard drive, with my old
> system 9.2.2 on it. I got here by holding down the option key
> on startup, when all my potential startup systems are paraded
> across the screen. My new 10.4.6 shows up there too, but if
> I choose it, the same thing happens again. What can the problem be?
>
> margaret
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