PowerMac 9600 w/ No Upgrade |
October, 18, 2003 1:28 PM |
AndreH |
Had a couple of problems. Installer will not recognize ATA drive but can recognize smaller scsi drive. So I installed to the scsi drive. All went well until I got to the log in stage. Won't let me log in and/or recognize me. Any suggestions? |
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RE: PowerMac 9600 w/ No Upgrade |
October, 19, 2003 4:59 PM |
lyonsdj88 |
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mount -uw / (return) Now type: diskutil repairPermissions / (return) |
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RE: PowerMac 9600 w/ No Upgrade |
October, 19, 2003 3:09 PM |
lyonsdj88 |
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I think it is a bug with pre 10.1 and XPF "helper" you will need to boot OS X with XPF and not use the "helper". If you can not boot it without the helper you may be able to fix it by using single user from the XPF menu in OS 9 and restart. When OS X loads you will first run file systems check then mount the 'root' drive and run disc utility repair permissions. May work, may not:-( at the command promt type: fsck -y (return) after that is done type: |
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RE: PowerMac 9600 w/ No Upgrade |
October, 19, 2003 1:32 PM |
AndreH |
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Thanks for the replies. The highest level of OSX I can hope to achieve is 10.1.6. However, at this point I'm trying to get 10.0.3 installed for starters. I couldn't get a 10.1.6 disk by itself so I chose the 10.0.3 with an update disk to 10.1.6. The SCSI drive is 20GB so I don't think it's too small. The startup assistant worked just fine until it asked me to log in. I typed in the login and password which I just created and nothing. It wouldn't let me in. I have no clue how to do fsck in single user mode. Also, partitioning the ATA drive does not allow the OS X installer to see it. Also, after failing the log in stage, I hit restart and the computer restarts into OS 9 and I can't get back into OS X. Even if I use the StartUp disk control panel to choose the drive with OS X installed on it, it ignores me. The only time that I did get it to restart from the correct drive it came up with a "broken folder" icon. Any suggestions? Appreciate the help. |
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RE: PowerMac 9600 w/ No Upgrade |
October, 19, 2003 2:49 AM |
mjoecups358 |
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This seems to be a another repeated thread? When will the madness end? Will there NEVER be a search function? |
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RE: PowerMac 9600 w/ No Upgrade |
October, 19, 2003 12:54 AM |
smwalker |
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Do you have a G3 or G4 upgrade since OSX equal to or greater than 10.2 requires that? Also, I had to change my external (slower) SCSI cables to the internal (faster) in order to install to my original 4 gb SCSI hard drive. I then used carbon copy cloner to install from my SCSI drive to my 120 gb hard drive on PCI/IDE card (SIIG) as I could not install directly to this hard drive. |
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RE: PowerMac 9600 w/ No Upgrade |
October, 18, 2003 8:09 PM |
fixitjc |
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First you say no upgrade - what version of X are you installing? the later versions will not install w/o a G3/4 processor. Jim |
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RE: PowerMac 9600 w/ No Upgrade |
October, 18, 2003 3:29 PM |
gregoryy |
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Did you successfully run the Startup Assistant? Possible the SCSI drive was too small and its more a matter of disk full? no room for swap and other stuff? I'd check the drive from the Install CD / Disk Utility / First Aid / repair and repair permissions. Also, have you tried running fsck from startup Single User mode? You could also try to boot with shift key down which puts system into Safe Mode. Only some Apple startupitem scripts are run. Did you install from Disk #2 at all? On the ATA drive, can you see it in Disk Utility so you can partition it down to first volume of 8GB, so that it will allow installing there? Likely to be 4x faster, too! |