Before I go through another complete reinstall from 10.3 -->10.3.7 ... hopefully someone has a bit of advice about the following:
For the second time in 3 months, one of my macs crashed (dual proc G4, 500 mhz) and upon pushing restart it will not come up in OSX. Boots up in 9.2. Tells me that one of the disks is unreadable (my OSX disk), asks me if I want to reformat.
I can boot from a 10.3 install disk, but when I try to switch start-up to 10.3.7, it isn't listed as one of the options. I guess that's logical, given the above.
I can't figure out how to reboot into 10.3.7. This happened before, and I reinstalled everything. Tedious process as we all know, and it generated a whole 'nother set of problems (every file had ownership set to a user called "system" that didn't exist anymore ... but I digress).
Thus far I have: zapped PRAM, reset open firmware, tried repairing with Disk Utility (invalid b-tree node size, volume check failed, this volume cannot be repaired).
Above all, I'm puzzled that the X bootup is on the same 56 G Maxtor drive as the properly functioning 9.2 bootup, just in a different partition ...
Help! Thanks.
- Andy
For the second time in 3 months, one of my macs crashed (dual proc G4, 500 mhz) and upon pushing restart it will not come up in OSX. Boots up in 9.2. Tells me that one of the disks is unreadable (my OSX disk), asks me if I want to reformat.
I can boot from a 10.3 install disk, but when I try to switch start-up to 10.3.7, it isn't listed as one of the options. I guess that's logical, given the above.
I can't figure out how to reboot into 10.3.7. This happened before, and I reinstalled everything. Tedious process as we all know, and it generated a whole 'nother set of problems (every file had ownership set to a user called "system" that didn't exist anymore ... but I digress).
Thus far I have: zapped PRAM, reset open firmware, tried repairing with Disk Utility (invalid b-tree node size, volume check failed, this volume cannot be repaired).
Above all, I'm puzzled that the X bootup is on the same 56 G Maxtor drive as the properly functioning 9.2 bootup, just in a different partition ...
Help! Thanks.
- Andy
