Upgraded sawtooth G4 with 1gig ram, dual 120gig drives, 1.4ghz cpu,
10.4.11 updating to leopard. Went fine until it rebooted and then
the computer just shuts down. Needed 12 gig for install. Install
disk had 25 gig available.Using logged startup, so I see sort of
what happens, but be
Most likely the installation is flaky, that's the usual cause.
Are you installing over your old system or on a clean partition?
I've had trouble with upgrades, and since I have the room, I usually
install on a freshly formated partition these days, especially when
going from one version to
I have no ability to get anywhere near full boot up. It shuts down
within seconds of restart.
was an upgrade install. I should have removed old drive, install new
formatted drive and clean install, but am idiot and did not. I think
it is failing to get to optimization part at all. Would
> Will reset PRAM and see. Have changed to verbose a while back since
> I wanted to see what all was happening. It shuts down before I can
> read the last few lines.
Try booting to single-user mode. Of course, I forget just how!
But the GUI doesn't come up, so maybe it'd get further that way
an
Clay,
What type of upgrade did you do? A *real* upgrade, or "archive and
install?"
In my experience the upgrade almost never works, because it keeps
around old drivers and software in the OS that aren't compatible with
the new version. Some simple driver such as a network VPN client can
k
I got it up in target disk mode and am cleaning files off. Turns out
the investment into the iBook was a very good thing for just this
sort of idiot move I made. Will be sure now that the bork was to the
disk and not the machine itself since it is allowing target disk mode
and outputting
Not able to boot from known external source yet. Was able to get it
into target disk mode and clean up some files.
I should have gotten a fresh disk and done install that way. Caught
on the limits of the internal controller so using only 120 gig
drives. Will be looking at upgrading to sat
FINALLY!!! I am up and running on the desktop instead of the laptop.
That was a huge PIA!
Tore the thing apart, removed all drives, and found an old one with
panther on it to boot up. Then went to Fry's and got a 320 gig for a
clean disk to install onto. One failing is that I only get acc
