Blinking Earth means its trying to NetBoot, should kick over to your internal drive after it doesn't find it... hmm. Try turning it off then back on and hold down option then select your hard drive when it comes up.
i got it back, lord knows how it went to net boot then came back. its working now after several restarts, go figure. feels like a windows machine after that nightmare.
ha, tried booting from a full firewire disk backup i did a week ago....booted to the error below....
Apparently, there's some hoops you've got to jump through to make a FW drive bootale with a Mactel. There's no way one will boot from a FW drive formatted & installed from a PPC machine.
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error (while booting from firewire drive):
world (while booting from imac drive):
Moving to Genius Bar.
Originally posted by sandau
ha, tried booting from a full firewire disk backup i did a week ago....booted to the error below....
Apparently, there's some hoops you've got to jump through to make a FW drive bootale with a Mactel. There's no way one will boot from a FW drive formatted & installed from a PPC machine.
Article at OS X Hints.
Originally posted by sandau
i did a full disk image from my intel mac, not ppc.
The disk image doesn't matter if the partitioning isn't in the Intel format.
Also, it's a good idea to test any bootable backups *before* the machine goes south.
yeah, its interesting to note the backup image doesn't boot. this is the same way i used to backup my PPC macs, but it no longer works. bummer.
I'm almost foaming at the mouth waiting on mine being delievered