Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: 10.6 boot hangs waiting for boot drive. Date: 28 Jan 2015 14:41:24 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net WfqGiS4VGUBrVVW8dLz4Rw6fdXkoxSUIANq581ClUy/gqwQp6i Cancel-Lock: sha1:e2Uzs10LICVpNdNdZswghoY1Yno= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:69219 On 2015-01-28, Siri Crews wrote: > Does anyone know what fixes the 10.6 boot hangs waiting for boot drive problem? > I haven't figured which incantation or small animal sacrifice fixes it. "The" problem? You'll need to explain the exact symptoms in greater detail, since a number of things can cause the boot process to hang waiting for a boot drive. So what are the exact symptoms? If there are any messages displayed on the screen, for instance, what do those messages say, verbatim? Have you been able to boot this machine from another drive or DVD? Have you connected the problem drive to another machine? And so on... -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR