Best way for drive info seems to be tabular. Lets try:
Partition Size Drive Location OS Macintosh HD ~4GB 4GB WD Caviar Internal EIDE 8.6 WD 8 7.98GB 30GB WD Caviar UltraTek/66 9.2.1, 10.2.5 HD-20 ~20GB 30GB WD Caviar UltraTek/66 n/a
Being a good son, I bring him back an 80GB WD Special Edition (8MB cache). Contrary to the number of times "WD" has been written, I don't usually like WD drives. I like the special editions, and the 30GB was on sale :)
Anyway, I come over here, I set the old 30GB to slave, set the new 80GB to master, make sure master is at the terminal position on the 80 conductor cable and boot. I install 10.2 from the original disks, setting the first partition to 7.99GB. I connect to the internet, copy over files, update to 10.2.6 etc etc etc. I reboot. I do more stuff. Finally I shut down. I turn it back on. It will NOT boot from 10.2 on the 30GB, and boots from "WD 8".
TechTool Pro 3.0.3 figured there was a catalog error in the drive, but couldn't fix it. Disk First Aid figured it was fine. Rebuilt the directory with DiskWarrior anyway. No improvement. Nuke&Pave time, no joy.
Frustrated, I try lots of things over the next fourteen hours. Summary:
* I can boot from all the other volumes.
* I can boot from the 80GB if I install 10.1 (didn't try 9, will later tonight).
* VST UltraTek/66 has the update from OWC. Reapplied just in case
* Zapped PRAM, rebuilt desktop (all volumes), CUDAed more than... something
* Removed all extraneous devices, cards, USB peripherals (used ADB mouse/kb only)
* Tried all master/slave/bus configurations. Connected each of the drives to the internal EIDE and both ATA/66+ cards to the VST card as master/slave/single.
* Always installed OS X on a 7.99 partition at the beginning of the 80GB drive
* I reformatted and repartitioned between OS X installs
* When booted from a different drive, I could still access the 80GB drive even if I couldn't boot from it.
* Tried setting boot disk from 8.6 (Mac HD), 9.2.1 and 10.2.5 (both on WD 8)
Now I'm in 10.1. I reach for the 10.1.5 Combo Update. Complains the Installer Update is needed. Applied installer update, but it still won't take the 10.1.5 combo update. This time the volume with 10.1 on it is greyed out. I'm not certain I'll be happy with 10.1 vs 10.2 (Dad loves Safari), but without 10.1.5 it's not even worth the hassle on a machine with only a RAGE Pro.
Funny thing is I'm unable to reproduce Dad's problem with the 30GB disk.
Ideas? I'm hoping it's something stupid that I missed. Aqua
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