[HM] Re: Dual PMac boot problem

[Adam Bass]

On Nov 9, 2003, at 10:09 PM, Jack Honeycutt wrote:

> 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
>
>

Yeah I haven't had any problems with built-in FireWire on Panther. Also 
there are the widely reported external FireWire drive firmware 
problems. However, I have an external FireWire drive that has the 
firmware that is supposedly affected and I don't have a problem, and I 
can't even get the new firmware, which is supposed to fix the potential 
problems, to work.

Thom, you may want to wait until 10.3.1 to upgrade, as there are a few 
issues and that probably be available very soon. If you wait too long, 
though, you won't be able to get the $20 upgrade (you only have until 
Dec. 17th I believe).

Adam



>
>
>> 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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