spinning gear, no boot |
August, 25, 2003 11:51 PM |
williamrah |
All of a sudden, I lost boot on my main OSX drive(8500, Sonnet G3 450). I can boot into 9.1 and get back into X on another drive using XPF, but can't access the drive I've been using for months. The drive, connected via ATTO PCI comes up on the desktop in 9 and in X when booted from an external drive connected to the native external bus. Neither XPF nor changing startup disk from within OSX will make this drive boot beyond the spinning gear. I've repaired permissions on this non booting drive from the other OSX drive and run disk warrior on it via an OS9 drive, but no luck. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. |
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RE: spinning gear, no boot |
August, 26, 2003 12:47 PM |
jseibyl |
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Sorry to hear it is the same issue with a different drive, BUT that does narrow it down one more sliver...... I would yank my primary, reformat the second drive (the one you just cloned) and go for the install. Since you have the backup, at least it might be less painful..... |
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RE: spinning gear, no boot |
August, 26, 2003 12:06 PM |
williamrah |
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Thanks again, jseibyl I successfully cloned the problem drive to another drive on the same ATTO bus.....and have the same problem with boot on this one, spinning gear, etc. I'm thinking I should have cloned to an internal system bus drive, so I could eliminate a possible PCI bus problem, but then why would everything else(copying, etc.) work on that bus if that were the problem. You may be right about the bad sector thing...wish there were a good software utility to fix this without reinstall, but I've at least backed up the drive, so reinstall may be the way to go next. |
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RE: spinning gear, no boot |
August, 26, 2003 11:16 AM |
jseibyl |
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oh yes, if you have a bad sector on your drive, that CAN cause this, even if Tech Tools or Norton can't find it. If the sector is screwy where your jag install resides, the cloning or permission repair WILL NOT fix this, as the data is pretty much shot on that sector...... I had a bad sector out of the blue on a backup of my 9.2 system which hosed the backup. I reformatted the drive, and did a clean install, so the data would not be written to that bad sector and all was well. I am still using that drive and it works fine save for a few humdred megs that I can't write to.... |
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RE: spinning gear, no boot |
August, 26, 2003 11:12 AM |
jseibyl |
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good luck, hope it works, Since everything was just ducky, and this is happening out of the blue, the last thing you could try is zap your PRAM. If you have done this and still no change, then I would think it has to be some silly hardware thing. Could even be a loose card in a PCI slot, or a currupted file on your jag install. Because of this message.... can't fork for window system on port/dev/console:Resource temporarily unavailable I am thinking something is screwy either on your drive OR your jag install where it is looking for the window management subsystem on your drive and NOT finding it because the hard drive is "temporarily unavailable". If you get the same crap on your cloned drive, then do a clean install on the second drive, and see if it goes. |
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RE: spinning gear, no boot |
August, 26, 2003 11:00 AM |
williamrah |
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already tried reinstalling boot extensions in XPF and increasing throttle to no avail...thanks anyway. I'm in the process of cloning the drive to see if it boots from another disk. |
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RE: spinning gear, no boot |
August, 26, 2003 10:28 AM |
jseibyl |
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one last thing, I didn't see that you tried re-installing the boot extensions in XPF, I assumed you have, but it worth asking about....... |
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RE: spinning gear, no boot..... drive? |
August, 26, 2003 10:10 AM |
williamrah |
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Thanks jseibyl it seems that the drive functions normally in all ways except booting.I might try cloning the drive to another and see if it boots.... |
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RE: spinning gear, no boot |
August, 26, 2003 7:07 AM |
jseibyl |
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Have you tried upping the throttle in XPF??? If nothing has changed in your hardware config, might be the drive headed south. |
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RE: spinning gear, no boot |
August, 26, 2003 12:12 AM |
williamrah |
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I booted in verbose mode and it finally hung on this message....and just keeps repeating it. I don't have a clue about interpretation of the text in this mode. init: can't fork for window system on port/dev/console:Resource temporarily unavailable Thanks if this helps |