OSX and my 9600 - black screen |
November, 02, 2003 5:37 AM |
ungerheinz |
Hello all together, I have an good old 9600 Powermac! I have upgrade the Mac as follows : Sonnet 700MHz G4- PCI Prozessor-Card, Adaptec 29160N Ultra 160 SCSI Controller, Two Ultra160 Harddiskdrive each with an capacity of 18GB, (The first for OS9.1 and the second for OSX), Grafic is an ATI Radeon 7000, XLR8 USB-Card, My CD-ROM ist from Plextor (SCSI UltraPlex40), User-Memory has an amount for 808MB RAM. I think a very nice Mac and enouth for OSX!! So waht happens if i try to install OSX ?? I start XPostFacto 2.2.4 or 2.2.5. I select the OSX source (CD-ROM). I select the target drive, where OSX should be installed. I klick on "Install". I can observe, that some thing will be coppied from CD-ROM to (i guess) the selected harddisk. Then the mac shuts down and try to restart but the screen stay black and nothing more will happen! If i read all the positive reports, which says yeah it works no Problems great stuff , i must be stupid and brainless guy! Is there any one who can tell me where the mistake is ??!! Best regards from Germany yours enervated Heinz Unger OS7.6, OS8 and OS9.1 will boot from this Drive without any Problems. |
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RE: OSX and my 9600 - black screen |
November, 02, 2003 11:28 AM |
rkbarker |
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One additional comment is that you should make sure that your SCSI chain is properly terminated. Jaguar is very picky about this. I did not have this problem because I have no SCSI devices in my S900 I made it all ATA, even the CD-ROM and CD-RW. My oither S900 runs on OS 9.2.2 at the moment and is all SCSI devices. Richie |
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RE: OSX and my 9600 - black screen |
November, 02, 2003 11:18 AM |
rkbarker |
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I had the same problem when I started the process and had to stop and go back over everything I did. I have Jaguar running on my Umax S900 very smoothly at the present. My problem was the 80 GB ATA HD was formatted with the OS X Disk Utility. The solution is as follows: Remove the USB card until you have finished the install, download XPostFacto 3.0a4, format the drive you are putting OS X on with drive setup in 9.1 or 9.2.2, install 9.1 OS on the same drive that you are installing OSX on. In XPostFacto 3.0a4 in the options panel set the input to keyboard and output to the graffics card. Set the throttle to 8 ( I just cranked my XRR8 card ZIF speed down) . Set the startup in verbose not single user. Than select the drive that you installing on, and helper to none and click install. See my comments back on Oct 29 in Umax install woes (Successful install). It went very smoothly. BTW you might want to install OS 9.2.2 on the other drive that has 9.1 on it using OS 9 helper.. Another thing is that I had the computer booted from the drive that had OS9.2.2 on it and used that to start from. Richie |
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RE: OSX and my 9600 - black screen |
November, 02, 2003 9:46 AM |
johnbclark |
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Yah - I have learned that the hard way too (thanks, forum geniuses!). It is REALLY picky... input must be keyboard and output the correct ATI card. I found that eventually I would get video, but not until late in the boot process. Sometimes I zap the PRAM and boot into OS9, then reboot with XPF (after double checking the input/output devices). This usually works if I have the (rare) problem. |
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RE: OSX and my 9600 - black screen |
November, 02, 2003 9:04 AM |
barryearly |
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Make sure you select an input/out device. I used my keyboard as the input device and my graphics card as the output device. Hope that helps. Barry |