Installing OS 10.2 on a powerMac 7600/132 |
October, 19, 2003 7:27 PM |
abolarea |
I have been able to install OS 10.1 on a Power Mac 7600/132 but have had no success with installing 10.2. The following is my configuration Power Mac 7600/132 with a Sonnet G3 750 upgrade card (500 Mhz) with the following systems installed : OS 9.1 on the orignal internal SCSI 1.2 GB HDD OS 10.1 on a IDE 40 GB HDD ( first partition) attached to a Sonnet Tempo Card OS 9.2 on an external SCSI 9.0 GB HDD in the first partition (4.0 GB) I have been able to install OS 10.2 on the second partition of the external SCSI HDD but on restart the computer just locks up. Tried to boot up in the verbose mode using XPOST Facto 3 and twhat it telles me is that it is waiting for the local disks and then goes on kernel panic what can I do? By the way I am using OS 10.2 on a Power Mac 7500/120 with a G3 450 Mhz upgarde card and it works fine except for the sounds. Appreciate any help |
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RE: Installing OS 10.2 on a powerMac 7600/132 |
November, 03, 2003 9:22 AM |
abolarea |
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I have installed 9.2.2 using OS9helper and it works as long as you have the smi ugrade file. The G3 card is about 3 months old and maybe will check with the local dealer about what to do with it?At the same time have bought Sonnet G4 700 upgarde card and am just waiting for it to arrive and will install it on the 7600/132 and see how it goes. I live in the Philippines and getting Mac things in the country takes some doing although it has become better. |
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RE: Installing OS 10.2 on a powerMac 7600/132 |
November, 01, 2003 2:30 AM |
smwalker |
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Glad to hear you solved your problem! From the other threads here you can see that there is a lot of heat generated about PowerLogix vx Sonnet upgrade processor cards. I'm running a PM 7500 w/ 7600 mobo and 778 ram and 4 gb scsi hard drive and 35 gb Seagate scsi hard drive with a Sonnet g3 500 mhz card. My Sonnet G3 card has worked superbly and I'm very happy with it; consequently I have no experience with other brands. I also have a PM 9600 with Sonnet G4 800 mhz card which is fantastic. Both macs run 10.2.8 well. How old is the g3 card you have and what are you going to do about it? What exactly do you think is wrong with it? What do you mean about having problems with 9.2? Remember, that is unsupported in that vintage mac of yours too. I like to have several OSX partitions and one 9.1 and one 9.22 (which I usually designate as classic. |
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RE: Installing OS 10.2 on a powerMac 7600/132 |
October, 31, 2003 8:04 PM |
abolarea |
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Thanks been able to install 10.2 but it looks like my problem is with the Sonnet upgrade card because the OS goes to kernel panis at random and even in 0s 9.2 it does so I have concluded that it must be the porcessor upgrade. Thanks for all the help |
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RE: Installing OS 10.2 on a powerMac 7600/132 |
October, 30, 2003 1:01 AM |
smwalker |
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Why don't you try and run Norton Utilities? Or better yet, try and boot up in "Safe Mode" by doing a "Safe Boot" by holding down the shift key when you hear the chime after it reboots in OSX. This should repair permissions and other sesitive info which can corrupt on install. Better yet, after XPF picks out the partition to boot, reboot into OSX and when you hear the chime hold down the "Command" key and the "S" key and you will be booting OSX in single user mode. After all the unix-speak rolls by, type in "fsck -y" with a space between "k" and "-" and then hit the enter key and wait for it to do its thing and repair orphaned files,etc. It should return "Have Modified files". Hit the Up arrow key and enter again and do it until it comes back without having modified files. Worth a shot! |
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RE: Installing OS 10.2 on a powerMac 7600/132 |
October, 29, 2003 9:07 PM |
abolarea |
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I have done about everything on the list Actually was able to install as mentioned in an email I sent to the OSX guru which I reproduce: "I have been able to install 10.2 to this machine on the first partition size 4.0 Gb of a 40 GB HD out of a Sonnet PCI/IDE card. However when I restart my machine goes on kernel panic with the following text that I have copied verbatim from the screen: Welcome to Macintosh Oct 29 22:46:01 System Starter: Tuning System Starting Security Server Boot-command 0 bootr debug= 0x100 -v Panic (cpu 0): mapping-remove: attempt to unmap apermanent mapping -pmap=00289800, va= 00001080, mapping= 018C0080 Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0 Backtrace: 0x0008593C 0x0085D6C 0x0002888C 0x00872CC 0x000665DC 0x0006684C 0x0006212C 0x0005CB14 0x0005CF20 0x00039168 0x001011D0 0x001d1064 0x00203A1C 0x00092830 0x 00090009 Proceeding back via exception chain: Exception state (sv= 0x108FE500) PC= 0x90005FC0: MSR= 0x0000F030 DAR= 0x93A4034C: DSISR= 0x40000000 LR= 0x00002A6C ; RI= 0xBFFFFD60; XCP= 0x00000030 (OXC000-System Call Kernel version Darwin kernel version 6.0 Sat Jul 27 13:18:52 PDT 2002 : root=xnu/xnu -344.obj -1/Release -PPC Debugger (panic) Can you tell me what is wrong? The Power Mac has the following specs Sonnet G3/500 Mhz upgrade 336 Mb RAM 3 PCI cards 1. PCI ATA/IDE with a 40 GB HDD 2. PCI USB 3. PCI FW card with a Que DVD 2i DVD writer Original 1.2 GB SCSI HDD ( Mac OS9.1) installed via OS9 helper External 40 GB SCSI HDD first 4.0 Gb partition with Mac OS 9.2.2 installed L2 Cache configured at writeback and 2.0 clock so =250 Kb W/ADB keyboard and mouse |
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RE: Installing OS 10.2 on a powerMac 7600/132 |
October, 19, 2003 11:20 PM |
smwalker |
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I presume your RAM is at least 256mb and preferably more. Are the RAM chips pressed in correctly and are they good DIMMs? Did you try zapping PRAM? Resetting CUDA? Your first partition on the Sonnet ATA drive is less than 8 GB? Have you tried running Norton Utilities from your internal SCSI drive on the external SCSI install of OSX? Also, "safe mode" booting has been described here in the last couple of days ... I would look at that. Hold down the shift key when booting into OSX. Also, booting up in single user mode is discussed here a couple of days ago. Have you tried changing the position of your Sonnet card to a different PCI slot? Are you using the internal video or do you have a video card? The throttle setting might be worthwhile investigating since it says "waiting for local discs". Higher throttle numbers slow it down, lower numbers speed it up in XPF. |