[G4] upgrade problem

[Harry Freeman]

On May 15, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Harry Freeman wrote:

> 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

The Primary Disk, the one on the bottom.

>  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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>
> Cheers, /\*_*/\
>
> Harry (*^_^*)
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