I was booting from my Mac OS X Server 10.2 disk and launched the "Disk Utility" program to erase my two Western Digital harddrives (10GB + 80GB). In the left window the Boot CD and my disks show up. In addition to this, a 2.00 MB Apple volume (with a default file icon) appears. When I click the "Information" tab, the "Disc Description" reads: "Apple Computer, Inc. read/write Media, "Total Capacity": 2.00 MB, "Connection Bus": Disc Image and "Disc Image Path" reads: ram://2048. As a subitem to this 2.00 MB Apple drive, a file (?) called "tmp" shows up. When I select it, the window to the right informs me that the "Mount Point" is /private/tmp and the "Format" is UFS, the "Capacity" is 2.00 MB, space "Available" is 1.88 MB, an that 29 KB has been "Used". "Number of files" on the volume is 22 and the "Number of Folders" is unknown.
The volume can not be verified, not erased and it appears even when I physically remove both disks from the cabinet and boot from the system CD.
I have tried to ignore the volume and install the system software, but then the machine acts very strange during startups. When I restart after for example the 10.2.3 update, I get the usual startupwindow, but when it disappears I don't get the "login" window. The corsor changes into the "spinning bathingball" and nothing happens. When I restart the machine once more (using the right button below the ON/OFF button) nothing unusual happens and I get my "login" window.
This happens every time I restart the computer after a restart. Does anyone have a clue whats wrong and how to solve this puzzle? I've tried resetting the CUDA chip and the PCI Logic board, but that didn't seem to solve anything...
(PowerMac G4 (PCI Graphics) (version = 2.6))
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