[iBook] OS install on new HD

[James Paul Manley]

Hi Joy, I was going to suspect the CD drive but after reading your  
husband's report I am more inclined to suspect the logic board. I  
would have it checked. Also have him run the diagnostic CD that came  
with the Ibook.

Good luck
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James Paul Manley
Albuquerque, New Mexico

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On Jun 22, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Joy Freeman wrote:

> Well, this hard drive replacement has turned into a nightmare for my
> husband, to whom I left the installation of the OS because, first,  
> I'm too
> busy with a big project to spend much time on it right now, and  
> second, I
> love doing the hardware stuff he hates, but have little patience for
> software stuff; and this one really has me baffled. I told him to  
> send me a
> description of the problems he's having and I would forward it to  
> this list.
>
> Are we missing something obvious? Does it sound like I somehow  
> installed it
> wrong? Any suggestions or referrals to sites that might tell us how to
> approach this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
> Here's what my husband wrote:
> ______________________________________________
>
> After the new hard drive was in the iBook, I tried installing from  
> CD (the
> CD drive usually spits CDs out immediately...but if you keep  
> inserting it,
> it will eventually accept the CD and works just fine). The CD was
> recognized, and the installer saw the hard drive, but it gave me  
> the red
> exclamation point. I also couldn't use Disk Utility from the CD to  
> format
> it.
>
> At this point, I accessed the iBook's hard drive in target mode via  
> FireWire
> from another Mac. Here, I was able to run Disk Utility against the  
> hard
> drive and formatted it into one partition, with journaling. I then  
> installed
> 10.3 from that Mac and, to test the installation, chose the iBook's  
> hard
> drive as the startup disk and rebooted the other Mac. This worked  
> fine.
>
> At that point, I tried bringing the iBook up on its own. I got the  
> grey
> apple screen, but did not get the little Stonehenge circle of falling
> dominoes underneath it. I waited quite some time, but the system  
> never did
> boot up. (I did not get the question mark folder.)
>
> I tried booting from the CD, and here's where I got a surprise. The  
> CD was
> no longer recognized, even though it was not spit back out. Once  
> again, I
> got the grey apple screen. This strikes me as very odd.
>
> After this happened, I tried a re-install via FireWire, on the  
> theory that I
> might not've taken the iBook down correctly, didn't unmount it or  
> something
> like that, after the first install. This install also went well, so  
> far as I
> could tell, but again, I could not bring the iBook up past the grey  
> apple
> screen.
>
> Since then, I've tried a variety of tactics, from booting up on an  
> external
> FireWire drive (a Plextor PX-708UF, which works fine with iBooks)  
> down to
> trying to bring it up in safe mode.
>
> So far, nothing has worked. I can still boot the other Mac using  
> the iBook's
> hard drive via FireWire, but that's all.
> ______________________________________________
>
> Any help at all would be appreciated,
> Thanks,
> Joy
>
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