Hello Lionel, I was mentionning to you a couple of days ago the impossibility for me to boot in target mode (boot-up while holding T key down) my powerbook plugged into my iMac under Panther. I think I found the solution and it might be of interest to other MacUsers. I had de-activated the journaling of my iMac under Panther 10.3.1, using an (excellent though) little freeware, of the name of Onix, to allow for defragmenting the iMac, using Drive 10, that I had installed on a partition on a firewire drive with 10.2. Everyhting was fine and dandy... but for this bl**dy powerbook that would indeed mount on the desktop but would crash the Finder if I tried to open it :-( I had quickly blamed Panther, but this is far from being the case: you just have to disable the journaling of the powerbook (using Onix again) and everything is back into place:-)) I have not tried it, but there lots to bet on the fact that on 2 journaled computers it would work fine as well, which makes me think there most of us never encountered the issue. |
So, pending more investigations, it seems that if you want to mount a drive in target mode, it must be like the main computer hard drive, journaled or not journaled.
