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G5 2.0 Ghz Dual will not boot

Hello all. I'm trying this as a last resort. I'm new to Mac, but a fairly proficient user/troubleshooter of Pcs. I've read hours of forrum posts on the subject of troubleshooting a grey screen/won't boot issue, but everything I've tried hasn't worked. I'm hoping you can help.
The problem is, this Power Mac G5 2.0 dual starts up, chimes, goes to a grey screen with the Apple logo and stops. No spinning wheel, nothing. I've tried Option + boot, it gives me the option to boot from different drives, including the OS install disk, biut when I select any of these, I get the same grey screen.
I have reinstalled the OS numerous times on different hard drives, swapping them out to see if that was the problem, but no change. I have the G5 connected to a different Power Mac G4 via firewire target mode. Using this I've repaired permissions, repaired disks, reformatted and re-partitioned 4 different hard drives, but same thing, it won't boot.
Currently the G5 is started in target mode, and I have the G4 booted from the G5's startup disk. The G4 is running fine from the G5's disk.
I also wanted to try the Apple Hardware Test, but unfortunately, I do not have the original disks that came with this Mac.
Any help and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Power Mac G5 2.0 Ghz Dual, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Aug 8, 2010 10:14 AM

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Aug 10, 2010 12:56 PM in response to new2mac1971

new2mac1971 wrote:
No, you're right, they sure don't make this easy. I'm looking, but not finding anything. I'm finding
And I couldn't find the directory you indicated BDAqua. Am I just not seeing it?


You need to use Terminal to get there, as that is a Unix root-level directory not normally accessible through the finder. It will appear in Console, but only if you are booted from the volume in question.

If you have the volume mounted through Target disk, you could use the finder's search capability for "Name contains 'panic'" as a try to see if a panic log exists anywhere.

Aug 11, 2010 10:58 PM in response to BDAqua

ok...I'm beginning to feel like I'm in way over my head. With the G5 in target mode, I installed EasyFind to it's applications folder, then ran it. I searched the entire disk for panic. case insensitive, show hidden files and folders. What I got was this:
Panic.3tcl in .usr/share/man/man3
Panic.htm in .System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.4/Resources/Documentation/R eference/Tcl/TclLib
panicVA.3tcl in .usr/share/man/man3

Aug 12, 2010 12:19 AM in response to new2mac1971

new2mac1971 wrote:
ok...I'm beginning to feel like I'm in way over my head. With the G5 in target mode, I installed EasyFind to it's applications folder, then ran it. I searched the entire disk for panic. case insensitive, show hidden files and folders. What I got was this:
Panic.3tcl in .usr/share/man/man3
Panic.htm in .System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.4/Resources/Documentation/R eference/Tcl/TclLib
panicVA.3tcl in .usr/share/man/man3


Those are all tickle documentation files, nothing to do with a panic log.

G5 2.0 Ghz Dual will not boot

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