Hi,
I have a G4 Dual 500 with 2 internal hard-drives, 1.12gig RAM, 2 PCI cards (an Audiowerk soundcard, and a TV card). I am running OS 9 on one drive, os X on the other.
I was running 10.3.9 perfectly on the slave drive. My problems started when I tried to upgrade to 10.4 on this drive. The installation initially failed for an unknown reason. I received the, 'There was an error, please restart and try installing again' message (or something similar). I did so and the install seemed to work the 2nd time round. When the machine re-booted the Mac doesn't boot up. It gets as far as the grey screen with the spinning timer and stays there. There is a 'no entry' symbol in grey on the screen also. I think that is X's version of the missing folder icon?
I have tried taking all 3rd party items out of the machine, including RAM out and re-booting, still no joy. I have also tried changing the OSX drive to the master and putting the other drive to slave, this doesn't change anything. I cannot do a clean install as I don't have another drive to back-up my work etc. I have been warned not to try installing over the top of the OS so I haven't tried installing again, as yet. Can you suggest how I can get my Mac to boot in Tiger?
When I use the Tiger disk to boot into OS9 I can see the other drive, and access all my work. So it appears the drive is OK as far as I can tell. Any idea what has happened?
I have a G4 Dual 500 with 2 internal hard-drives, 1.12gig RAM, 2 PCI cards (an Audiowerk soundcard, and a TV card). I am running OS 9 on one drive, os X on the other.
I was running 10.3.9 perfectly on the slave drive. My problems started when I tried to upgrade to 10.4 on this drive. The installation initially failed for an unknown reason. I received the, 'There was an error, please restart and try installing again' message (or something similar). I did so and the install seemed to work the 2nd time round. When the machine re-booted the Mac doesn't boot up. It gets as far as the grey screen with the spinning timer and stays there. There is a 'no entry' symbol in grey on the screen also. I think that is X's version of the missing folder icon?
I have tried taking all 3rd party items out of the machine, including RAM out and re-booting, still no joy. I have also tried changing the OSX drive to the master and putting the other drive to slave, this doesn't change anything. I cannot do a clean install as I don't have another drive to back-up my work etc. I have been warned not to try installing over the top of the OS so I haven't tried installing again, as yet. Can you suggest how I can get my Mac to boot in Tiger?
When I use the Tiger disk to boot into OS9 I can see the other drive, and access all my work. So it appears the drive is OK as far as I can tell. Any idea what has happened?