Help! G4 will not boot from internal drive
PowerMac G4 Dual 533 w/1.5GB Ram OS 10.3.9 will not boot from an internal hard drive but will boot just fine from an external firewire drive. When this problem first began I would get the ?prohibited? sign at startup. Now I get the gray screen w/Apple logo and spinning gear. When I boot from an external drive the internal drive does mount and I can read and write files. This is what I?ve tried so far:
Ran Disk Utility
Ran Disk Warrrior
Ran Techtool Pro
Zap PRAM
Push PMU button (once)
Disconnect all peripherals
Reinstall OS 10.3 (archive and install)
Erase hard drive and install OS 10.3
Remove old internal hard drive and install new hard drive with new cable
Nothing has worked so far.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Ran Disk Utility
Ran Disk Warrrior
Ran Techtool Pro
Zap PRAM
Push PMU button (once)
Disconnect all peripherals
Reinstall OS 10.3 (archive and install)
Erase hard drive and install OS 10.3
Remove old internal hard drive and install new hard drive with new cable
Nothing has worked so far.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Comments
Next I would install whichever version of X you like on one of your drives on another mac, however you choose, then putting the drive back into your Dual.
Does the disk boot if you put in an external FW= bad internal IDE
Does not boot in external FW cabinet= Bad HD or bad boot sector
=>repartation to FAT32 and install DOS booting (in options) then change the partition to HFs and pick the option for PPC boot sector (This way you will have a fresh boot sector)