The booting process on my Sawtooth has gone absolutely haywire in the aftermath of some major upgrading. I hope it's OK to post a crash report here from a failed boot attempt (this particular failure was of the blue screen and eventual message in several languages to restart or hold down power button variety). (The apparent to the eye variations on booting failure have been many.)
At this point, there's no booting at all without holding down the option key, selecting the main OS (Tiger 10.4.11) volume, and then booting in safe mode. After trashing what's been put in the Trash (or not - i think the system will do this on restart anyway), I can option- boot and select and start up Tiger in normal mode. Here are the files that appear in the trash after a Safe Boot: annex.aux annex.db filetoken.db fonts.db Local.fcache qdfams.db System.fcache User.fcache I'm just looking for clues right now, not necessarily pinpoint problem- solving answers (not that I'd refuse any such). I can and will go into great detail about the upgrading itself in another thread and another sense later. The thing is - all the new hardware works, and there was plenty of it. The operation was a success (as was the very first post- upgrade startup) - and now the patient is ill. Here's the crash report: (For you experienced decipherers out there - again, just being pointed in the right direction would be fine. I promise not to follow up with a dozen requests for clarification. Not right away, anyway.) Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x0000000031FB034E PC=0x0000000034F15E14 Latest crash info for cpu 0: Exception state (sv=0x31FCEA00) PC=0x34F15E14; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x31FB034E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x34F04148; R1=0x1CA8BBA0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access) Backtrace: 0x02728E00 0x34F04148 0x34F02268 0x34F12498 0x34F0238C 0x002EB7B8 0x0008BEB0 0x00029234 0x000233F8 0x000ABEAC 0x00000000 Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): com.apple.GeForce(4.1.8)@0x34ef3000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x460000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4.2)@0x541000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.4.2)@0x565000 dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(4.1.8)@0x57b000 Proceeding back via exception chain: Exception state (sv=0x31FCEA00) previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping... Exception state (sv=0x3200D280) PC=0x9000AF48; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0x0007B07C; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x9000AE9C; R1=0xBFFFEF00; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call) Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC panic(cpu 0 caller 0xFFFF0003): 0x300 - Data access Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0: Backtrace: 0x000954F8 0x00095A10 0x00026898 0x000A8204 0x000ABB80 Proceeding back via exception chain: Exception state (sv=0x31FCEA00) PC=0x34F15E14; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x31FB034E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x34F04148; R1=0x1CA8BBA0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access) Backtrace: 0x02728E00 0x34F04148 0x34F02268 0x34F12498 0x34F0238C 0x002EB7B8 0x0008BEB0 0x00029234 0x000233F8 0x000ABEAC 0x00000000 Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): com.apple.GeForce(4.1.8)@0x34ef3000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x460000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4.2)@0x541000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.4.2)@0x565000 dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(4.1.8)@0x57b000 Exception state (sv=0x3200D280) PC=0x9000AF48; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0x0007B07C; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x9000AE9C; R1=0xBFFFEF00; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call) Kernel versio`Model: PowerMac3,1, BootROM 4.2.8f1, 1 processors, PowerPC G4 (2.1), 1 GHz, 1.25 GB Graphics: GeForce FX 5200, GeForce FX 5200, AGP, 256 MB Memory Module: DIMM0/J21, 512 MB, SDRAM, PC133-333 Memory Module: DIMM1/J22, 512 MB, SDRAM, PC133-333 Memory Module: DIMM2/J23, 128 MB, SDRAM, PC133-333 Memory Module: DIMM3/J24, 128 MB, SDRAM, PC133-333 Network Service: PCI Ethernet Slot 4, Ethernet, en1 PCI Card: usb, usb, SLOT-B PCI Card: usb, usb, SLOT-B PCI Card: pci1033,e0, SLOT-B PCI Card: SeriTek/1S2 v. 5.3.1b1, 11/02/07, 23:24:45, ata, SLOT-C PCI Card: pci10ec,8169, sppci_ethernet, SLOT-D Parallel ATA Device: ST3160215A, 128 GB Parallel ATA Device: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109 Parallel ATA Device: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI USB Device: USB Audio CODEC, Burr-Brown from TI, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA USB Device: DeskJet 930C, Hewlett-Packard, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA USB Device: Hub in Apple Pro Keyboard, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 12 Mb/ sec, 500 mA USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, Fujitsu Takamisawa Component, Up to 1.5 Mb/sec, 100 mA USB Device: Apple Pro Keyboard, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 250 mA FireWire Device: Astra 6400, UMAX, Up to 400 Mb/sec Thanks. Sean -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list