[FX.php List] [OFF-TOPIC] A bug discovery in OS X Server and OS X 10.4 installers

[Bob Patin]

On May 22, 2007, at 4:37 PM, John May wrote:

> Right, but you can get to Disk Utility from the installer under one  
> of the menus.  This has always worked for me, and I know for sure  
> I've reinstalled over previous OS X Server installs.

Perhaps it wasn't with 10.4.7, or on an Intel Mac? This is one of the  
new quad-cores; I doubt that matters, but who knows...

  Disk Utility on the Server Install disk never worked for me; it  
hung up just like OS X Server did. I tested the drive to make sure it  
was okay, which it was; I was able to get this error to recur on  
subsequent attempts too.

When I bought the machine, the first install of OS X Server didn't  
run, so I tried to reinstall; this was the first time I experienced  
it. I finally hauled the machine to the local Apple store, where they  
pronounced the machine in perfect order. He showed me how he'd been  
able to initialize the drive with no trouble.

It was only a couple of weeks later, when I managed to corrupt the  
conf file that I went through it again; then I remembered what the  
Apple Store guy had done: he'd hooked up his own hard drive, with a  
system on it, and from there he ran Disk Utility and nuked the drive.  
That was what led me to use target disk mode to solve the problem.

But Disk Utility on the Server install disk wouldn't do it; it hung  
up all of the dozen or so times I tried. I then tried using a Mac OS  
X Tiger disk (not Server) and had exactly the same results; this  
reasonably confirmed that it wasn't a disk error.

Bob Patin
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