[tech] the Xserve

[James Andrewartha]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, David Adam wrote:

> Unfortunately Napoli isn't booting. Again. So we will require someone with 
> a Mac laptop and a Firewire cable - the ones UCC have are all FireWire 400 
> 8-pin to 4-pin, which are enormously unsuitable.

Napoli's disk is munted, and Disk Utility is unable to repair it. I had a 
shot at opening it up to replace the hard drive, but didn't have time to 
do it completely and was nearly defeated by the display cable.

I've created a new Lion installer on a 4GB NetApp branded USB drive and 
left it plugged into the Xserve. I couldn't get it to boot any better, 
only once did I get the installer, and the video was still corrupted.

If you are creating a new installer, 8GB is better otherwise you'll have 
to use an Lion DiskMaker 1.7 and run agent from Terminal at Lion 
DiskMaker 1.7/Lion DiskMaker.app/Contents/MacOS as it doesn't like 
launching directly from Finder in Mavericks.

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