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Unbootable MDD Dual 867
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, WI
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I have a Dual 867 that was running 10.2.4 just fine, until today when I was making an OS 9 boot CD. It gives the old flashing question mark/folder icon after the startup chime, then nothing. Here's what I tried:
1. Booting from various OS 9/ OS X CDs (either with Option key or C keys).
2. Booting into single user mode.
2. Booting into Open Firmware and doing reset-all.
4. Zapping PRAM.
None of the above worked. Any other ideas?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: England
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Could you be a little more specific? When you say it didn't work, what exactly appears on screen.
You could try holding 'x' to force booting into OS X.
Phil.
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PowerMac G4 MDD Dual 867 256MB
PowerBook 12" Revision C 768MB
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, WI
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None of the things I tried above resulted in the Mac finding a bootable system folder. In other words, it hangs forever on the flashing question mark/folder icon. I also forgot to mention that I tried resetting the PMU, with no effect.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Highland Park, IL / Santa Monica, CA
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Be happy.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Make sure all of your cables are seated properly. A friend had similar symptoms and lo and behold, re-seating all of his cables fixed the prob. he had no idea how it happened.
good luck
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"-Dodge This"
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Professional Poster
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Switzerland
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I had the same problem on a Dual867 running 10.2.4 last week .
However, for me the loss of a valid system folder was totally random after a restart...
In the end I had to do a clean install of 10.2 and all was fixed. I have now gone back up to 10.2.3, the last stable build for me on the d867...
Peace,
Marc
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, WI
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Well, I finally fixed it by booting up in Firewire target disk mode, connected to my TiBook. From there I reformatted the system partition and reinstalled 10.2. I still don't know what caused the original problem, but at least it's fixed.
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