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June 15th, 2008, 03:00 PM
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| Reformatting G4 I have a G4 which was a server with two partitioned drives. Not realizing that I should reformat the drive to make it unpartitioned and be able to upgrade the system from 10.3 to 10.4, I went ahead and attempted to upgrade the Mac system OS. The update got to a point where it stopped and gave me a message of cannot upgrade the server software. On restart, the Mac now gets to the gray apple screen and freezes. When I boot from the 10.4 system disk, I get as far as the Disk Utility before it freezes again. I tried to boot from a Disk Warrior utility disk to no avail. I am about to take the G4 to my local Apple repair shop, but am hoping there may be a way around doing that. I have tried every keystroke I can find to get the Mac to respond.  |
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June 16th, 2008, 12:06 PM
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| If you boot from the server cd / dvd and it still freezes, i should not have anything to do with the failed upgrade. You have either a hardware issue or a bad startup disc. I should suggest you try e.g. the 10.3 installation startup disc and if that freezes you computer again, you have a hardware issue for sure (at least 99%). Good luck, Kees |
