OS X 10.4 Installation

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bodobadi

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Just installed OS 10.4 (Tiger) from 10.3.9 on my dual processor 1 Ghz Quicksilver G4 desktop machine. The machine will not boot up and displays a prohibited sign on startup.

I have two internal ATA drives one is my system drive that is partitioned to an 0S9 (10 gb) & 0SX (60gb) partition. The installation was done on the 0SX partition. My second hard drive is purely a media storage drive.

Tried booting up in verbose mode as well as single user mode, the computer just hangs on both. It also won't boot up in safe mode. Ran all the disk utilites programs I could think of no joy. Unplugged all my preipherals still no joy. Can't think what would be causing the problem and its doing my head in!!! Had absolutely no problems with earlier versions of OSX, but its not liking 10.4.

Any ideas / solution ???
 
Sounds like it's looking for a startup disk to me. Maybe it's set to use your extra drive. Can you boot from the cd?
 
While your machine is powered OFF, try disconnecting the drive that you are NOT trying to boot from (the OS X drive). If your machine boots fine, it's likely that you have the ID setting on both drives set the same (if you're not using SATA).

On a standard ATA bus, you need to have one drive's ID (jumper) set to Master and the other set to Slave. You want the Master drive to be connected to the end of the cable/ribbon and the slave connected to the connector in the middle of the cable/ribbon.

With SATA (standard on machines manufactured within the last year or so), ID settings are handled automatically by the computer, so there are no jumpers that need to be set.

If you can boot into single-user mode (startup with the COMMAND + S keys held down), run '/sbin/fsck -fy' at the command prompt to check the health of your boot drive's file system.
 
Just managed to make it work by deleting my OS9 partition!

It was the last resort ... I did try all the jumper settings on my drives!
 
If I remember correctly, the Mac OS X partition needs to be within the first 4 GB of the drive, so if you had the OS 9 partition "on top" in the partition panel of Disk Utility, and it's larger than 4 GB, you should rearrange so that the OS X partition is "on-top" or first.
 
macworks said:
If I remember correctly, the Mac OS X partition needs to be within the first 4 GB of the drive, so if you had the OS 9 partition "on top" in the partition panel of Disk Utility, and it's larger than 4 GB, you should rearrange so that the OS X partition is "on-top" or first.
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The limitation you're thinking of only applies to older Macintosh computers (Beige G3, early iMacs) and the limit is 8GB, not 4.

His computer is exempt from this rule -- the OS X partition can be as large or small as he likes, and can be located anywhere on the drive -- first, last or middle.
 
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