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Has anyone come across a fault like this?
Just taken my Mac mini to pieces and re-installed 2Gb in it (I did upgrade it previously to 2Gb but I nicked the memory for my daughter's macbook a while ago). Whilst in pieces I installed a 320Gb Toshiba drive to replace the existing 80Gb Seagate.
Anyway when I put it back together it does not boot from its internal drive (which I imaged from the original drive).
Right so I boot off the original Leopard SERVER install disc and go into disc utility. DOH its not set to GUID so it wouldn't boot would it !!! So I re-format as GUID and re-install but it stops with the message on screen "Time Remaining: Less than a minute" which I left for 20 minutes but nothing happened.
I press a button and the computer starts making noises and accessing the DVD with the beach ball but nothing else happens so I re-start. The computer will not boot off the HD so I boot the DVD. I check system profiler (off the install disc) and it shows 2Gb and 320Gb HD so the new RAM and HD are in ok. I re-install again and the same thing happens.
If I boot in Target mode the drive contains a leopard server install !
I have reset NVRAM
I have booted with D held down to no avail.
The drive shows in disc utility as a single 296Gb GUID drive with one partition.
Startup disc only shows the install DVD and Network boot.
Very strange..............
Just taken my Mac mini to pieces and re-installed 2Gb in it (I did upgrade it previously to 2Gb but I nicked the memory for my daughter's macbook a while ago). Whilst in pieces I installed a 320Gb Toshiba drive to replace the existing 80Gb Seagate.
Anyway when I put it back together it does not boot from its internal drive (which I imaged from the original drive).
Right so I boot off the original Leopard SERVER install disc and go into disc utility. DOH its not set to GUID so it wouldn't boot would it !!! So I re-format as GUID and re-install but it stops with the message on screen "Time Remaining: Less than a minute" which I left for 20 minutes but nothing happened.
I press a button and the computer starts making noises and accessing the DVD with the beach ball but nothing else happens so I re-start. The computer will not boot off the HD so I boot the DVD. I check system profiler (off the install disc) and it shows 2Gb and 320Gb HD so the new RAM and HD are in ok. I re-install again and the same thing happens.
If I boot in Target mode the drive contains a leopard server install !
I have reset NVRAM
I have booted with D held down to no avail.
The drive shows in disc utility as a single 296Gb GUID drive with one partition.
Startup disc only shows the install DVD and Network boot.
Very strange..............