[HM] Re: Dual PMac boot problem

[Jack Honeycutt]

At 06:59 PM 11/9/2003, you wrote:
>Thom,
>
>Hmm you have almost the exact same config as I have: Dual 1 GHz MDD w/ 512 
>MB of RAM. That's a very strange problem. I've heard of 10.2.8 really 
>screwing up people's computers, but I've never had very serious problems 
>with it, although it did have some odd issues, but nothing that major. Now 
>that it's at an authorized Apple repair center they should definitely be 
>able to fix it, but 10.2.8 is really not a very good update. If you got 
>your Power Mac recently (Oct. 8 or later) you should qualify for a $20 
>upgrade to Panther. Go to www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade. It's an awesome 
>update that's well worth the price. You can check out all the awesome new 
>features at www.apple.com/macosx/newfeatures. :)

I agree.

But if you are running some 3rd party Firewire cards, Panther breaks 
them.  I don' know if a patch is available or not.  I don't think the 
firewire issue effects built in Apple firewire, but i am not sure about that.

jack




>Adam
>
>
>
>On Nov 8, 2003, at 7:08 PM, Thom Holland wrote:
>
>>Hi Jack,
>>
>>Jack Honeycutt wrote:
>>
>>>Are you saying that you can not boot to the CD?
>>
>>That's right.  I should have stated this earlier.  Here is what I have:
>>
>>Mirrored door, dual 1.0Ghz Power Mac
>>512Mb
>>Jaguar (10.2.8)
>>Superdrive
>>20" Cinema display
>>
>>To recap, I had powered it on for the first time yesterday.  It booted 
>>just fine.  It's amazing how fast it runs.  Everything I opened was super 
>>fast.  I loved it.  Then I did a Software Update.  That seemed to go 
>>great.  A short time later, it froze.  Rock solid.  Nothing worked. I 
>>held down the power button to power it off.  After that, nothing worked.
>>
>>I tried powering it with the 'option' key held down.  That brought it to 
>>sometype of base start up.  I was able to open the Superdrive and insert 
>>the boot disk.  Up comes the icon for the CD.  All is great up to now. I 
>>select the disk and click on the 'Next' arrow, and then the screen goes 
>>white with the Apple logo and a spinning disk.  And there it sat for at 
>>least 20 minutes.  Nothing else happens until I power it down.
>>
>>It is now at an authorized Apple repair shop.  :(
>>
>>I was so looking forward to using it and the 20" display tonight.
>>
>>In one of the discussion groups, I read that there could be a problem 
>>with incompatibilities between firmware level and software level.  I find 
>>that hard to believe and I am sure that Apple would have had sometype of 
>>check for that before doing a software upgrade.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Are you running Jaguar?  Are you booting to disk one of the Jaguar CD?
>>>Is this a iMac, a Tower, or a eMac?
>>>jack
>>
>>
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