cold boot into X |
September, 16, 2002 3:21 AM |
paul_findley |
It seems to be a common problem, not just for me, that when cold booting, one winds up in OS9 and has to rerun xPostFacto or System Disk 3.3.1 to choose OSX. If there is no fix for this in sight, it would be hugely useful if there could be a floppy with a MINIMAL install of OS9 + xPostFacto (or System Disk 3.3.1). This would be much faster than booting into the full OS9 system on the hard disk, just to choose OS X. Does anyone know how to create such a MINIMAL OS9 floppy (similar to XLR8's old emergency recovery disk to repatch the nvram; which took just seconds to boot. Unfortunately, it quits automatically.) + xPostFacto or System Disk 3.3.1? Ryan, could you provide such a floppy disk image? |
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RE: cold boot into X |
September, 16, 2002 2:14 PM |
marcush |
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I had exactly the same problem on my Power Tower Pro. This should work. If you have a machine with two SCSI bus connectors on the logic board switch your ribbon cable from the Fast SCSI connector to the external bus connector. Unfortunately, the downside is that it will only allow your SCSI drive to run at 5/MBs. When I first installed OS X I had this problem until I realized what the fix was. I talked to Ryan about it at MacWorld SF and bought a new PRAM battery at his suggestion, but it turned out to be a problem with how OS X sees the native SCSI buses. It will run fine once you are booted into OS X but you have to go throgh the annoying step of first booting into OS 9. I have since moved OS X to an IDE drive on an ACARD Ultra ATA 100 card and have not had this problem. |
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RE: cold boot into X |
September, 16, 2002 11:49 AM |
macman |
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I had problems with this on my configuration where X is installed on an IDE drive and 9 on the lone scsi drive attached to the internal bus. I found that changing the ID of the SCSI drive to something other than 0 (I used 6) made it so that a cold boot of X worked. stephen |
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RE: cold boot into X |
September, 16, 2002 10:40 AM |
ed301 |
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Can't be a dead PRAM battery. I replaced mine and it still boots back into OS 9. I have to hold the powerkey in until all the drives stop spinning and then it will boot back into OS X. |
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RE: cold boot into X |
September, 16, 2002 10:34 AM |
OSXGuru |
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A dead PRAM battery can do this, but it does not appear to be the only cause. Sometimes it appears to be affected by which PCI cards are installed. It is, unfortunately, somewhat mysterious. (I have a 9600 which exhibits this problem now, when booting from an UltraTek IDE card. But it is not as though it happens with all machines that have UltraTek cards). One workaround which is effective in some cases is this: press the power key to do the cold-start, and then quickly press command-control-powerkey to do a warm-start. In some cases, this will succeed where the cold-start alone does not. What I have thought of doing is writing a Mac OS 9 extension that would look for the "x" key being held down. It would then reboot into Mac OS X, using your current preferences. But I haven't actually started to figure out how to do that. |
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RE: cold boot into X |
September, 16, 2002 3:31 AM |
mjoecups358 |
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I have been using Xposfacto since day one and have never experienced this issue. I wonder what would cause it? Dead Pram battery perhaps? |