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I have a G4 Dual 867 MMD machine that has been flawless up til now. It is locking up on start up. I get the gray screen, apple icon and then the processing wheel spinning for about 2 minutes, then it just stops. Nothing has been installed that would cause this. Running Leopard 5.6, 2 gigs ram, 250 gig drive. Disconnected any extras and ran the hardware test which came back clean.
I can only boot it in target mode, I wont get to safe mode or anything else. Now I know this is an old machine, however I was hoping to possible use it as a time machine back up, just load it with drives and have it sit.
I can access the disk via my mini using target mode and I can boot from the drive via the mini, no data loss so I think that rules out the drive itself. Since hardware checked all passed, I am thinking software, but if thats the case, why would it boot to the mini?
I am at a loss here on what to do.
I need the drive contents so I was planning on just cloning the drive over to the mini (after mini drive upgrade), and there wouldnt be any downtime. I am not sure how I can do that now since I cannot boot from the G4 to make the clone.
Any tips on getting this back up? Already ran FSCK a couple of times and came back ok.
Thanks
I have a G4 Dual 867 MMD machine that has been flawless up til now. It is locking up on start up. I get the gray screen, apple icon and then the processing wheel spinning for about 2 minutes, then it just stops. Nothing has been installed that would cause this. Running Leopard 5.6, 2 gigs ram, 250 gig drive. Disconnected any extras and ran the hardware test which came back clean.
I can only boot it in target mode, I wont get to safe mode or anything else. Now I know this is an old machine, however I was hoping to possible use it as a time machine back up, just load it with drives and have it sit.
I can access the disk via my mini using target mode and I can boot from the drive via the mini, no data loss so I think that rules out the drive itself. Since hardware checked all passed, I am thinking software, but if thats the case, why would it boot to the mini?
I am at a loss here on what to do.
I need the drive contents so I was planning on just cloning the drive over to the mini (after mini drive upgrade), and there wouldnt be any downtime. I am not sure how I can do that now since I cannot boot from the G4 to make the clone.
Any tips on getting this back up? Already ran FSCK a couple of times and came back ok.
Thanks