Okay, here's a tricky one: I'm adding two new
G5s to the top of our cascade here at the
office. I was planning on using the Setup
Assistant's migration tool to suck user info off
the old machines.
Well, one of those old machines went down today,
and we haven't been able to solve the problems.
The machine runs OS 9 most of the time, and
keeps getting a flashing question mark on
startup. Disk repair/permissions repair has
solved nothing, and we can't find the hardware
test disks for the user.
Question: Is it safe to use the migration tool
to suck data off this screwed up machine onto a
new G5, or could I be screwing up the G5 in the
process? What exactly does the migration tool
copy?
Any help would be great appreciatedĀ Thanks,
The reasons as to why you get a flashing question
mark folder at boot and the integrity on your
volume and data are two different factors. If
your volume passes repair permissions and disk
verify then the volume is OK. This would mean the
data on it, if used for migration or any other
purpose, is also OK.
The reasons why you get the flashing question
mark folder on boot is rooted in bad boot
parameters in nvram. You should be able to fix
these by booting with the cmd-opt-P-R keys held
down at power up. You should hear a startup
chime, keep the keys depressed until you've heard
a total of five startup chimes, then release. It
may take some seconds btwn the chimes.
If this doesn't solve your problem you'll need to
drop into Open Firmware to fix this further. You
can see your nvram settings using `nvram -p` from
a shell / the Terminal. If you could post those
results it would be helpful.
--
-dhan
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