Yeah, well to begin with /etc/hostconfig was gone completely. Replacing that worked to get it to boot but then all the services were suddenly off. And finally the OD database got wiped and activating OD bogged things down to the point there was no way to log in or ssh in. So we stuck my new Intel XServe in place and started basically from scratch. Many complete directories could be migrated so it wasn’t a total loss. The last straw was that Retrospect was not backing up /private but fortunately some of that was still useful. I don’t know what the hell happened. Also my new XServe has had kernel panic issues when the old G5 was target disk attached.

Thanks JR

–MM