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November 17, 2007

Involuntary Reboot Log #21

So it turns out that SuperDuper! definitely doesn't produce bootable backups on Leopard. I had used SuperDuper! to move my old Tiger install to a new volume; this was before I found out that SuperDuper! isn't comptaible with Leopard.

Seeing as my SuperDrive isn't supported in Leopard I had no choice but to boot into Tiger when I wanted to watch a DVD last night, so, wondering if the backup would be bootable or not I gingerly rebooted.

Didn't quite work, spewing lots of flickering white text on a black screen; I could see a command prompt but it would get repeatedly painted over by other text. On typing I could only get a single character at a time reflected on the screen before it got repainted over. Tried reboot, shutdown and all that jazz but eventually things froze and had to hard reset.

Involuntary reboot stats to date

• Operating system version: 10.5
• Kernel panics: 6
• Hard resets: 15
• Total failures: 21
• Start of recording keeping: 21 May 2006
• Total days to date: 545 days
• Average time between failures: 25.95 days
• Uptime at moment of failure(s): less than 60 seconds

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Posted by wincent at November 17, 2007 9:04 PM