[G4] Making a Bootable Copy of a HD

[John Baltutis]

Known problems.

1. Check the CCC section at <http://65.69.94.113/forums/>; especially the
troubleshooting and tips section.
2. Make sure you use the latest version 1.2.4 at
<http://65.69.94.113/forums/viewtopic.php?t=306>. It addresses the problem
with master.password.


On 03/03/03,  "R. Sigismonti" <n3rs at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I have a G4 933MHz with 1.5GB of memory and a 60GB hard drive and a
> 10GB hard drive mounted internally.  I have OS X on the larger HD and
> OS 9.2.2 on the smaller one.  I recently purchased a 130GB external
> firewire HD from OWC and had planned on using it as a backup to my
> internal HD's.  I partitioned the 130GB HD so that I had a 11.78GB and
> a 100GB partition on which to store the two backups.  I used Carbon
> Copy Cloner v2.1.2 to clone the OS X HD.  The copy went beautifully,
> but when I tried to boot from the external HD, it stalled during the
> boot process and put the following at the left upper portion of my
> screen:
>
> /etc/master.password:No such file or directory
> /etc/master.password:No such file or directory
> sh-2.05a# ______
>
> I assume this is some sort of UNIX command line, but I do not have the
> foggiest as to what to do with it.  I tried my system administrator
> password, but it didn't work.  I looked on the OS X partition and there
> is an alias called etc in the root directory of the partition, but I
> could not find the actual etc folder.  When I searched for the same
> directory (folder) on my internal HD, it does not show up as being
> present.
>
> Can anyone help me with this, or is there no way to boot from a
> firewire disk?