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I recently bought a Crucial M4 SSD for my aging G5, and it refuses to start from the SSD. I installed a fresh copy of Leopard to the SSD, and every time it starts up, it kernel panics before it even gets to the spinning white apple logo screen. The kernel panic says
"Kernel loadable modules in backtrace"
com.apple.driver.AppleMPIC
dependency com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily"
and some other things.. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
mituw16
Only suggestion I have is to boot from another source & try looking further at the system or crash logs on that drive.
We might get more clues with... Mac OS X: How to start up in single-user or verbose mode...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1492
Have you tried Safe Boot from the SSD?
Yes I did try safe mode, exact same thing happended. I'll try starting up from another source and see what I see. Thanks!
Does that SSD support less than SATA 3 6Gb/s, like the native G5's Sata 1 @ 1.5 Gb/s?
It says it goes back to SATA 2, but it doesn't mention SATA 1. Could that be the issue? It still shows up as a disk in Finder and disk utility if I boot of from my original hard drive. Right now I'm trying to clone from my original hard drive to the SSD, which is connected via the internal SATA port. I thought SATA 3 was fully backward compatible...
It says it goes back to SATA 2, but it doesn't mention SATA 1. Could that be the issue?
That is what I'm thinking, I've seen a few HDDs in past that were set for SATA 2 & some G5s could Write to/install to, but not boot/read from them, while other G5s couldn't even see them, always wondered if later G5s maybe had slightly improved SATA 1 spec or such.
Issues with upgrading a G5 to an SSD.
