tobyblake Posted February 25, 2003 Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 Hi all, I'm trying to move an OSX 10.2.4 system from a G3 beige desktop to a new G4 tower. I believe that I should be able to just restore the entire system and it will work (this is based on docs indicating that OSX is OSX and not a hardware specific installation). The trouble is, that I simply cannot boot into the restored system. I have followed the instructions in the Retrospect user guide (pp 117-119). I can select the restored system using Startup disk - it reports it as bootable and the correct version - 10.2.4, but it will just refuse to boot into it - if another system is present it will boot into that, if not, it will sit with the flashing question mark. I have tried installing a system (same version - 10.2.4 ) and restoring over the top of that, as indicated in the user guide. I have also tried having a different working system on the same disk and then restoring to an empty partition - all with the same result. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what could be going wrong or even what I can try - how do I find out *why* it isn't booting? Cmd-v doesn't tell me anything as it merely stops at the flashing folder icon. Is there another way of getting some diagnostic information at this stage. I have checked the drive with Disk Utility and all seems to be well. I have also updated to the latest firmware. I am using Retrospect 5.0.236. Thanks in advance Toby Blake University of Edinburgh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobyblake Posted February 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 Replying to my own post here - all I needed to do was bless the partition again, using the following command: bless -folder "/Volumes/OSX/System/Library/CoreServices" -bootinfo "/Volumes/OSX/usr/standalone/ppc/bootx.bootinfo" Toby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted February 25, 2003 Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 Quote: I believe that I should be able to just restore the entire system and it will work (this is based on docs indicating that OSX is OSX and not a hardware specific installation). You might be able to test this theory by taking the IDE disk out of the G3 and installing it in the G4; if it boots then you have confirmed that the software can be transfered. But it may not; I'm not certain that the Installer doesn't do special things to make beige G3's work with OS X. If this _does_ work you might try Carbon Copy Cloner to try and clone the G3's drive to a G4 partition, and see if that works for you. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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