• Re: MDD G4 Suddenly refuses to boot.

    From Rob McCleave@rmccleave@sympatico.ca to comp.sys.mac.system on Wednesday, July 23, 2003 21:47:41
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Bought Norton Utilities. Could boot in OS X and OS 9 on the Norton CD.
    Ran some diagnostics, it found some problems. Still wouldn't boot from
    HD. Booted in OS X on Norton, switched startup disk to OS X on HD. It
    booted!

    The OS 9 restore discs are not made to boot. You boot in OS X, then run
    the OS 9 restore from OS X. Which is fine if you can boot into OS X in
    the first place.

    Did a restore of OS 9 and it works again. I'm not sure what the problem
    was, but I'll be keeping an eye out for signs that the HD is
    deteriorating.



    In article <rmccleave-CFA444.20102522072003@nr-tor02.bellnexxia.net>,
    Rob McCleave <rmccleave@sympatico.ca> wrote:

    Dual 867 MHz MDD G4, August 2002 vintage. Came with OS 9 and OS X 10.2 installed. Been using it in OS 9 all along.
    Today it refused to start up.
    "This system will not work on this Mac."




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    Rob
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