So, I got a copy of Leopard and I was planning to install it on my Mini (1.42Ghz G4), but first I was going to back everything up so I could wipe the drive and do a clean install. But, first, I wanted to try MacFUSE and NTFS-3g because both of my external hard drives (that I would backing up to) are NTFS format. While I was installing MacFUSE, a software update was in prgress. I considered cancelling it, since I was going to be putting Leopard on soon anyway, but since I had to reboot after installing MacFUSE anyway, I went ahead and let it run.
Upon reboot, she's dead to the world. Grey screen. No apple logo. Nada. Tried zapping the PRAM, booting into the single-user or safe mode, all useless. I could boot from the Leopard DVD just fine, and I tried running Disk Utility, but it found that it could not repair the drive. The next day I borrowed a 6-pin-to-6-pin firewire cable and mounted the Mini's hard drive on my iBook G4, but again, Disk Utility choked on trying to fix it.
So yay...only good thing is I still have AppleCare on the old Mini and later this afternoon I'll be taking it in to see if they can recover the data and of course replace the drive.
Upon reboot, she's dead to the world. Grey screen. No apple logo. Nada. Tried zapping the PRAM, booting into the single-user or safe mode, all useless. I could boot from the Leopard DVD just fine, and I tried running Disk Utility, but it found that it could not repair the drive. The next day I borrowed a 6-pin-to-6-pin firewire cable and mounted the Mini's hard drive on my iBook G4, but again, Disk Utility choked on trying to fix it.
So yay...only good thing is I still have AppleCare on the old Mini and later this afternoon I'll be taking it in to see if they can recover the data and of course replace the drive.