[tech] the Xserve

[David Adam]

On 2015-03-04 22:21, David Adam wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, James Andrewartha wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, David Adam wrote:
>> 
>> > Unfortunately it refuses to boot the iMac 10.6 discs (apparently requiring
>> > 10.6 Server Edition) and AFAICT it's not possible to buy any 10.7 media
>> > any longer. apparently there is no separate Xserve media for 10.7.
>> >
>> > If anyone has either 10.6 Xserve or 10.7 installation discs that they
>> > could provide to UCC we'd like to get an OS X server up and going.
>> 
>> I asked the Apple guy at work, and he said there's no such thing as a 
>> 10.7
>> install disc, but he did lend me a usb spaceman with the installer. I
>> tried booting, but it got video corruption towards the end.
> 
> Target disc mode might be the way to go then?

[RME] gave this a crack over the weekend - he installed the 10.7 
installation image on an extra partition and tried booting off it. As 
you discovered - video corruption was a problem and there definitely 
seems to be something strange going on hardware-wise.

If we can find a spare video daughterboard that might be the way to go, 
but I am once again out of energy for Mac stuff.

[DAA]